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.
PIP-ING at Rainbow
Educational Research has revealed that children learn best when the material is relevant to them. That is one reason why the "PIP: Personal Interest Project" has been a long tradition at Rainbow Mountain. Students are allowed to chose ANY topic of their interest. ...
Rainbow Student Receives Merit Award
Congratulations to Rainbow Mountain 8th grade student, Conor Stuart-Roe. After a rigorous application process, Conor Stuart-Roe has been chosen for the prestigious Headmaster's Award at Christ School, a boy's boarding prep school in South Asheville, where he will be...
Heart of the Matter: How Rainbow’s Calendar Supports Our Mission
Heart of the Matter: How Rainbow's Calendar Supports Our Mission Rainbow is adopting a unique school calendar for the 2011-12 school year. We will have an early release at 1pm every Wednesday for K-8 students to allow teachers time for collaboration, training, and...
Rainbow Mountain's Highlights of the Week
A few things about Rainbow Mountain this week, March 7 through March 11, which you may want to know: - School is CLOSED this Friday, March 11, for a Teacher Work Day - Re-enrollment papers were placed in parent boxes last Thursday. Did you get yours? They are due by...
Decisions, Decisions
When is your child old enough to make decisions on her own? At restaurants, it's not uncommon to see a parent asking a very young child to decide what she wants to eat. What amazes me more, is when I see parents asking their child what they want to eat for dinner at...
Open House this Thursday, 6pm – 8pm
This Thursday, March 3, from 6pm - 8pm is your opportunity to talk with Rainbow Mountain's teachers. At Rainbow Mountain Chidlren's School's open house you can visit multiple classrooms, find out more about the approach and curriculum at each age, and ask each...
Transition Asheville Host Introduction Meeting at Rainbow
Introduction to the Transition Town Movement. Today almost every aspect of our civilization has become dependent on the use of cheap, abundant oil. As global supply of cheap oil declines, our local economy becomes increasingly vulnerable. The Transition Town Movement...
What does HOLISTIC education actually mean?
"Holistic" is becoming a buzzword, but we have used it to describe the education at Rainbow Mountain Children's School since 1977. From Wikipedia: The concept of holism refers to the idea that all the properties of a given system in any field of study cannot be...
School Wide Science Fair
Last Tuesday, Rainbow Mountain held it's annual, school wide Science Fair. First through Eight graders focused on the scientific method while they explored various topics such as; which species of rabbit is the fastest, rebound rating of different balls (basketball,...
The most important component
As you may know, Rainbow's educational philosophy is wonderful. But it takes much, much more than a great philosophy to have a great school. What is that makes the difference between a classroom where kids REALLY learn, and one where they just do okay? The...
The Spiritual Domain
The Five Domains are the pillars of an education at Rainbow Mountain Children's School: 1. Academic/mental 2. Spiritual 3. Emotional 4. Social/moral 5. Physical When we speak of a child's development, we always refer to every domain to be sure we are seeing each child...
Awakening the Dreamer Symposium at RMCS, Asheville
It's about creating an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on earth so our children inherit a world richer than we received. The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is an interactive, transformational...
Play IS work
Remember playing as a child? Most of us had a lot more freedom as children to run through backyards, wade in a creek, or form a neighborhood baseball game than kids do today. It turns out, all that "play" time helped us develop the most important skill for success...
Parenting with Positive Discipline Course at RMCS in Asheville
Are you ready to feel more joy, peace, and confidence in parenting? Do you want to find new solutions to old problems? Do you want to learn how parenting can be easier? You're invited to join Michele Bryan, Positive Discipline Facilitator and parenting consultant, for...
Creativity Crisis
There is IQ, EQ (or EI for Emotional Intelligence), SI (Social Intelligence), but did you know there is a CQ for creativity?  What's remarkable, is that researchers who have done longitudinal studies, have found that children who have high CQ's, are exceptionally...
Still opening at 10am- Wed, Jan 12-rationale
I went out driving around on steep side roads this morning, and found that it looks worse than it is. Since there is not a layer of ice below the snow, stopping and general control were okay.  Our parking lot was scraped Tuesday morning, and has some small to...
See Rainbow kids on international music video
Richard Gannaway just posted this video. "Ena Na Lena" is the single on the album "...and Love Rages On," to be released by AO Music next month:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYL_DYOVpZM. You'll see a couple of recognizable faces (I prefer not to post their...
Measuring Success
Some of America's top schools no longer require SAT or ACT test scores for admission, because the correlation between test scores/IQ and success in college is very poor. (Grades are a much better indicator.) Some suggest a new measure called the EF Index, for...
