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Oct 26, 2022

Fall Festival

We are so excited to announce that our annual Fall Festival will be back up and running this Saturday, October 29th from 2:00pm-5:00pm....

Oct 25, 2022

Campout Cooking Class

Raintree will be hosting seasonal cooking classes for parents this year! This was a favorite community activity from before COVID-times,...

Aug 25, 2022

Family Picnic

Get to know the teachers, administrators, families, and children of Raintree at our start of the year Family Picnic! Bring a blanket and...

Dec 13, 2021

Elementary Curriculum Night

We are excited to announce that Raintree will be hosting kindergarten and 1st/2nd grade classrooms for the 2022-23 school year! To learn...

Dec 3, 2019

Local Produce in November

Being a green school is more than just turning the lights off when we leave a room. It also includes being good stewards of the crops...

Nov 12, 2019

Kindergarten Talks

Would you like to know more about a progressive approach to education? Come join us to talk about Raintree Kindergarten. It's an...

Sep 19, 2019

Vaskebjorn: 4th Annual Forest School Congress of the Midwest

Vaskebjorn is the ultimate gathering of educators: a place for sharing innovative approaches and ideas to enhance place-based learning in...

Mar 20, 2018

'True Forest' at Geekway to the West

"Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the...

Feb 18, 2018

Documentary in Post Production!

After a year of dreaming and planning and dreaming some more, the time has come to bring our ;attest big, hairy, audacious goal to life. ...

Nov 7, 2017

Students Present to Local Aldermen

Helping an entire community (of people, cars, and deer) takes time. It happens in “eurekas” and “ah hahs”. During whispers in the...

Dec 10, 2015

Save the date! Raintree School is hosting a gathering of educators aimed at promoting an informed, significant, and realistic change in...

Nov 20, 2015

What the Cat Taught

Human beings require courage, commitment, and desire to get involved in social interests, to be active citizens in a democratic society. ...