From the Director

As a mother of three, I have watched my children experience various educational philosophies from public and private to home schooling. I was inspired to create a new learning environment where children are respected as individuals and are inspired to learn from the heart. I am an advocate for children of all ages. I believe that children are filled with joy, competency, power and resourcefulness. I believe that given provocation, support, kindness, and love their accomplishments are vast and outstanding. With provocation, children together, work hard, play hard, and care for each other and the community around them while exploring new and varied topics and questions.

Voyagers’ Community School offers children a vast array of vibrant opportunities.

Karen Giuffre, MA Ed.
Founder/Director

At Voyagers’ Community School…

Children throughout Monmouth County, and beyond come to experience exciting educational possibilities.

• We have created a place where children can make choices, participate deeply and share their passions, successes, and failures with confidence and support from peers of all ages.
• Children’s interests shape a diverse offering of classes. Together, in our bright, warm, and cozy space, we create a learning community where everyone is welcomed, honored and respected.
• Children join each other in challenging adventures that teach through experience. They have voice and influence among and with adults. The work is collective and the result is exciting.
• Children are trusted to make their own mistakes, work through their own problems and come to their own solutions with help when it is needed.

Our Students are…

• curious, fascinated with the world, eager to try new things and make sense of their life experiences.
• thinking individuals, able to understand and discern; they are capable of accepting responsibility and eager to make decisions for themselves.
• the principle agents of their own education and mental development. Learning is something students make happen to and for themselves.
• unique and can learn best while following their interests at their own pace.
• learning a great deal for and by themselves through interaction with others.

Voyagers’ is…

• A place where a child can grow and learn as a whole person.
• A place where children can develop thinking and working attitudes that empower them to take over their own growth.
• A place that honors and encourages children’s vision, tenacity, initiative, imagination, generosity, and exploration.
• A place that is defined by the bounding level of excitement, enthusiasm, creativity, inquisitiveness, ingenuity, and individual and community satisfaction.
• A place that invokes vibrancy and trust among children and adults alike.
• A place where children can find their voices and participate in a democratic community.
• A place where learning is defined by no one and honored by everyone.
• A place where people of all ages can learn and grow in community.

Expertise is gained through a variety of specials that take us outside our facilities to explore the community around us and develop and enhance skills such as nature studies, physical education through swimming, skating and gymnastics, fine arts and fine craft, humanities and science. We also open our doors to experts who support and enhance our learning as they share their life experiences, perspectives, talents and heart.

In our space children learn in a continuum; they move from easier to more difficult material and from simple to more complex strategies at their own pace, rather than being promoted once a year or waiting until the next school year to move forward in the curriculum.

Students are required to produce ideas, integrate knowledge, and complete tasks that have real-world applications. Assessment is ongoing and diagnostic, yielding information on a student’s strengths and weaknesses so that the teacher can tailor lessons to the student’s specific needs. Parental involvement and understanding is key to our program’s success. Opportunities exist for parents to be involved in the learning community.

Children have access to materials for visual arts, music, movement, science and computers with wireless networking.

Our library of current fiction and nonfiction titles is carefully selected to provide for research and engaged reading.

Voyagers’ offers options for full-time or part-time participation for children from kindergarten through high school. In addition to our full-time students, we welcome children who are homeschooled or who are available for after school and holiday hours.

Nondiscriminatory Policy

To foster an equitable, nurturing, and stimulating environment for educational experiences and community building, Voyagers’ Community School affirms that its students, staff, volunteers and guests have a right to be free from discrimination. We invite all people to participate in the activities, events and community of our school. We do not discriminate on any basis (cultural background, ethnicity, race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender, disability, marital status or spirituality) in the administration of our care, instruction, admission, employment, or tuition assistance policies.