05/30/2022
Sandali Rupasinghe, OCT.
Sandali is the CEO and founder of Little Birds Holistic Education. She is an Ontario Certified teacher who is passionate about experiential education that goes beyond the classroom. She is certified to teach grades 7-12 and her focus is on Sciences and Social Sciences. Prior to completing her B.Ed, Sandali also completed a B.Sc in Biology and Psychology. After working with elementary level children, she realized that her passion may lie with the little ones and embarked her journey to focus on them.
Sandali’s decision to create an alternate school/pod was heavily influenced by personal requests forwarded by likeminded parents, whose intention was to teach their children skills that were useful in daily life. While completing her B.Ed, Sandali worked with children of all ages & needs and was able to create a flexible curriculum that ensured individual success.
She found that the key to it all was focusing on the “whole” child. Her students enjoyed and thrived under her holistic approach to education. After a year of planning curriculums and partnering with other teachers, she decided to officially open doors to new children in the GTA.
Sandali currently teaches students with exceptionalities, whose needs are not met in the traditional classroom. She has been able to form a close bond with these children by focusing on emotion regulation, outdoor education, yoga and remodelling the way academics have been taught for years!