When our visionary founders established Willow, one of their primary purposes was to instill strong communication skills in our students through a language arts program rooted in literature. Today, our curriculum guides students to read fluently, write clearly and...
language arts
Multisensory Phonics: Hands-On Learning & Literacy Development
Learning how to read and write is a complex process. While learning to speak is a natural process that requires little instruction, our human brains are not hardwired to learn how to read and write and it therefore requires direct, purposeful instruction. To guide...
Making Caring Common: Where I’m From Poems
Did you know that Willow joined the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Caring Schools Network this year? The Caring Schools Network is a growing group of schools committed to ethical development, formed as part of Harvard's Making Caring Common initiative. Making...