Welcome to the Rainbow Community School Blog!
RCS News and Updates
We are so excited to share with you everything that makes Rainbow such a unique blend of holistic education, academic excellence, social responsibility, and integrated community. Here you can find our reflections on the seven domains, our opinions on mindfulness in schools, our upcoming events, and how we’re revolutionizing education from the inside out. Explore the posts below to get a sense of what being part of the Rainbow community is all about.
Summit Information
Our Summit is coming up on September 29. We hope that the RCS community really benefits from all the information that we want to share. As part of that meeting, we are inviting parents to be a part of small focus groups, where parents can provide their own...
Kaleidoscope – September 2014
Here we are – together – at Rainbow Community School, 2014. I would love to hear about your experience and impressions so far this year. What has intrigued your child? What have you learned? What has the staff learned? I think the most important thing I have learned...
Soulspeak Coming to RCS Auditorium
Soulspeak at Rainbow We are beyond excited! SATURDAY September 27th @ 7pm, Soulspeak Asheville will be helping us dedicate our new community center auditorium space with a youth poetry slam! WE ARE ALL POETS will feature 12 youth ages 12-21 from the WNC community...
Alumnus Allijah Motika – Creative Multi-Instrumentalist
Alumni News! We are so proud of all of our alumni. We have news from Allijah Motika who just graduated from Catawba College in May. He studied music, with a concentration in Popular Music and achieved summa cum laude. He received many honors while there, including...
Heart of the Matter: Educating the Innovation Generation, Part IV
How Can a School Promote a Culture of Innovation? As I enter the “Omega” (7th and 8th grade) classroom at Rainbow Community School, a large Buckminster Fuller-designed dymaxion world map is on the floor, the basis for a game where students are moving around chips that...
RCS Staff Does Professional Development at Sanctuary
Professional, Spiritual and Personal Development One of the most special things about Rainbow is how students and staff alike have opportunities to grow. Each person grows personally, professionally and spiritually. Before school starts in August each year, all staff...
School Closed: Teacher Work Day
RCS will be closed on Monday, November 3, 2014. This is a Teacher Work Day.
Halloween Harvest Hoedown
Please join us for the most awesome fall event ever! Come to our Halloween Harvest Hoedown. It's family-friendly with lots of fun things to do! It's on Saturday, October 25, 2014.
School Closed: Teacher Training
RCS will be closed on Monday, October 20, 2014. Teachers will be attending professional development trainings so they can stay on top of their game!
School Closed: Fall Break
RCS will be closed October 16-17 for Fall Break. We hope everyone has a restful few days!
Sue Ford, Music Teacher, Facilitates Summer Workshop
Musical Opportunties As the school year gets underway, we're learning about what opportunities staff and students participated in over the summer. . Rainbow's music teacher, Sue Ford, attended something called the Sister Singers Network Festival at the University of...
The First Day of School – 2014 – A Success!
We are thrilled to have our K-8 families back on campus! Tomorrow, our Pre-K families return to campus. What a glorious first day it has been! Making Friends Returning and new students were glad to see each other. Some had met only days before at their class pot luck,...
Mark Hanf – Featured in Citizen Times For Creating AT Board Game
Mark Hanf Featured in Asheville's Newspaper Mark Hanf, one of our new Omega teachers, has been featured in the "Living Section" of the Asheville Citizen Times. He has spent time hiking the Appalachian Trail. It's impacted his life so much that now he wants to hike...
Mark Strazzer Wins in World Championship!
Mark, our new P.E. teacher, just returned from Italy after winning The World Championships in ultimate frisbee! He and his team, Boneyard, traveled to Lecco, Italy to play against 24 other countries around the World. As far as the tournament went on the field,...
Grandparent’s Day
We welcome our Grandparents to campus. More details to come, but you'll be able to see your grandchild in short performance in the auditorium and then you'll be able to join them in the classroom.
Picture Day Pre-K-Omega
Picture day for everyone in Pre-K - Omega.
No Classes: Listening Conferences
Monday Sept. 15 and Tuesday Sept. 16 there will be no regular classes as we will have Listening Conferences. Please contact your child's teacher for details.
Student Support Services Night
Please join us on Thursday September 11th for Student Support Services Night.
