Happy 5 Year Anniversary, Next Step Education!

Celebrating a few of the many snapshots that capture this trip down memory lane.

Of journeying through a global pandemic…

Learning to run a business…

Expanding a mission I believe deeply in…

And keeping the JOY in learning for so many wonderful children!

From running a printer all night on my living room floor prepping lessons…

To packing up my mobile office…

From teaching in church basements, front porches, next to fire pits, and in garages…in snowsuits…on folding tables…

From workshops at the library to the Rec Center and every town building in between…

…remember the Dance Academy summer camp? 

…or the Back to School Athleta x Little Words Project event? 

From picking up my keys to building furniture and signing my first lease…

From my first students to the ones newly enrolled last week - 

Thank you for being along for the ride!

Whether as a current student or alumni student, friend or family member - 

Growing Next Step has been so much better because of you!

I wonder if this girl (on the left) had any idea what this girl on the right would create…

But my guess, is that the girl in the handprint shirt, who used the play school all afternoon might have imagined it could have played out this way for the girl in the pencil shirt.

Empowering children…

Cheering them on…

Providing a high standard for academic growth and development, while making the learning fun & engaging!

It's clear to me now - I'm exactly where I'm meant to be.

What a gift to call what I do every day, my life's work :-)

To many more years of confident, proud, happy readers!

Love always, 

Ms. Schelzi