The Three Sisters Village

The Three Sisters Village The Three Sisters Forest and Nature School is a place to be and grow. In our community, we trust and

This is what learning looks like at The Village.Not one lesson, one outcome, or one path.On any given day, there are doz...
10/05/2026

This is what learning looks like at The Village.

Not one lesson, one outcome, or one path.

On any given day, there are dozens of ideas unfolding alongside one another. A question becomes an experiment and a creation becomes a collaboration.

Something noticed in the forest gets carried back to the table or an idea from last week resurfaces in an entirely new way.

Our work is not to decide where each of those threads should lead.

It’s to notice them and to stay curious about them.

In our spaces we offer time, space, materials, connection…and sometimes we must simply get out of the way.

Because when we say we follow the child, we don’t mean that learning is left to chance.

We mean we trust that children are already in relationship with the world around them and that there is so much worth noticing when we make room for that relationship to unfold.

Living is learning.

And around here, it’s happening everywhere.




This year, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation frames Truth and Reconciliation Week around the words: Takin...
09/30/2026

This year, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation frames Truth and Reconciliation Week around the words: Taking Truth to Action.

At The Village, those words feel deeply connected to our responsibility.

To acknowledge where the ways of knowing that inspire us come from, to continue learning from Indigenous voices, and to live with greater reciprocity, relationship and responsibility to the land and one another.

Because reconciliation cannot live within a single day.

September 30th gives us a reason to stop, remember and speak the truth.

But October 1st gives us an opportunity to keep living it.

And so does every day after that.

Reimagining what it means to invest in our spaces.Investment doesn’t always have to be financial. Sometimes it looks lik...
09/15/2026

Reimagining what it means to invest in our spaces.

Investment doesn’t always have to be financial. Sometimes it looks like time, creativity, resourcefulness, community, and seeing possibility in what is already around us.

The children model this for us time and time again. They turn anything into something. A wagon becomes a suitcase, a spoon becomes a tool. A piece of wood becomes a sword. What already exists becomes something entirely new.

So perhaps we can do the same.

Limited access to funds doesn’t have to mean limited access to beautiful, engaging, innovative spaces.

We can use what we have. Reimagine what already exists. Give materials another life. Build slowly, sustainably, and with intention.

Anything can become something.

*This treehouse is part of the Kinder Spaces at the Homestead. Build by the older learners in our community alongside an experienced carpenter who generously offered his time and skills to help us create this incredible space that invites so much wonder and creativity into the children’s play.

09/08/2026

The Burrow. 🌿

A place woven into the daily rhythm of our days at Forest School. A place we return to, season after season, learning its pathways, noticing its changes, and growing more deeply connected to all that lives here.

There is a reciprocity in belonging to a place like this. We care for this land, and in so many ways, it cares for us in return.

Over time, we have become part of its rhythm and it has become part of ours.

What a gift it is to know a place this deeply.

08/03/2026

One dream led us here.

Now it’s time to step into another.

☀️This summer stretched me as a leader.For the first time, our Village was thriving in multiple places at once.And that ...
07/29/2026

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This summer stretched me as a leader.

For the first time, our Village was thriving in multiple places at once.

And that meant letting go of something many leaders quietly carry…..the belief that we need to be everywhere, overseeing everything.

Instead, I had to practice the very value we ask our children to practice every day.

Trust.

Trust in our facilitators. Trust in the relationships they’ve built with children. Trust in the culture we’ve created together. Trust in myself.

One of the greatest lessons this summer has reminded me of is this:

Trust isn’t just something we hope children develop.

It’s something adults must choose to embody.

When we model trust with one another, we create the kind of community where everyone, children and adults alike, can grow into themselves.

That’s the kind of Village we’re building.

🤍 If you’re an educator, leader, or parent, I’d love to know: What has trust taught you?

06/30/2026

Somewhere along the way, many of us began to see play as something we leave behind.

Something children do until they grow up.

But what if we’ve misunderstood play all along?

What if play has never been about age…

What if it’s always been about connection?

Connection to ourselves.

Connection to one another.

Connection to our communities.

Connection to the world around us.

Play isn’t just entertainment.

It’s one of the ways humans connect.

Maybe that’s why children seek it so naturally.

They’re not simply passing the time.

They’re practicing one of the most human things we do.

🌿 What does play look like in your life? Share one way you love to play in the comments.

06/25/2026

This is a topic that is widely studied and discussed in education.

We often say we want learners to be intrinsically motivated.

To persevere.

To think creatively.

To follow their curiosity.

To care deeply about what they’re learning.

But intrinsic motivation doesn’t grow because we’re told what to care about.

It grows when we are given the freedom to discover what we care about.

When we are trusted to follow an idea.

To solve a problem.

To ask a question.

To create without already knowing the outcome.

The goal isn’t to make children motivated.

It’s to create the conditions where motivation can grow from within.

🚨Before you scroll, leave one emoji that captures how this perspective landed for you.

06/22/2026

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When we think about sustainability in education, we often think about materials.

Reusing.
Recycling.
Making the most of what we already have.

And those things matter.

But sustainable education goes deeper than that.

It begins with the understanding that the most valuable resource in any learning environment is not the curriculum, the materials, or the carefully prepared activity.

👉🏼 It’s the child.

Their curiosity.

Their questions.

Their ideas.

Their desire to make sense of the world around them.

When we trust children to lead their learning, we begin to realize that everything we need is already present.

💚 Drop a heart if this is the kind of sustainability you want for our children.

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6600 County Road 21
Alliston, ON
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