IF YOU VISIT MY HOME YOU WILL KNOW ME | The Home Visit | SARAH LEIBOWITS, Educator

04/03/22 • 38 min

WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design

Imagine a radical school curriculum where 4 and 5 year old children are required to visit the homes of every student in the class. I speak with Sarah Leibowits, a lower school educator at the Manhattan Country School in New York, who has taken her class on these very home visits for 20 years. Established as a 'private school with a public mission’, lessons at the school from kindergarten through 8th grade, are built on the celebration of unique difference.

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