The Highlander School

08/15/2026

The Highlander School community enters our 13th school year.

As we settled into our spaces and welcomed both new and familiar faces, we reconnected with one another and worked to find our rhythm. We began the new school year, with the guidance of Baba Enoch and Sister Naima, cleansing and blessing the space and setting the intentions for the new school year. We’ve spent our first days and weeks playing, exploring materials, reconnecting with land, making gifts for the mother tree, singing songs, sharing stories, immersed in laughter and joy, and celebrating being together!

We’re off to a beautiful start….
Much gratitude to our greater community for all your love and support❤️

06/03/2026

Explore our nature-based, anti-bias environment where children, families, and educators learn with and from one another. A community where relationships are rooted in justice and liberation.

Come discover our philosophy at its source and see what makes our living rooms come alive! RSVP by Ding us on Instagram or emailing us at

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We hope to see you there!

06/03/2026

As with every year we celebrate the members of our community who are transitioning from out of our space and into the wonders of new schools and communities.Each child is honored with words of affirmation, as their individual hopes and dreams were announced to the community, “Walk confidently. Work and play collaboratively, and keep dreaming!”

A special thank you to our drummers, and all other members of our community who attended in honor of our friends.

We look forward to all that lies ahead for them, and hope that they know they have a community rallying behind them forever. Once a Highlander, always a Highlander!

05/08/2026

The story of the corn continues
Entrusted to us by last year, we planted our first corn.

Corn that was carried by the Muscogee during their forced removal, brought to Oklahoma, saved for generations and returned to her homelands. We harvested her with the blessings of the African drums, dance, songs and the stomping of our feet.

We continue this cycle once again by placing the kernels into the earth “with love” as a child expressed.

05/05/2026

It’s in the context of play that children make meaning of their world and her endless possibilities. The realm of realities and imagination merge. We see children replaying the scene of getting their hair braided, boarding a plane, creating a robot or transferring water and feeling the earth against their skin. Our role as educators is to listen, reflect and cultivate environments that support this wonder and joy! Grateful to my colleagues and community that make this work possible by honoring the sacredness of childhood.

04/28/2026

Offerings to the mother tree and celebrations of spring and the new year

04/15/2026