FAQs
General FAQs
In a nutshell, what does OC offer homeschool families?
Physically located near Newtown Square on an old farmhouse property with 28 acres of land. Open Connections serves families who have chosen to create their own path for education and development.
For the youth (4-18 yrs old), we provide full and half-day programs that meet weekly. Most of the 120 young people who come to OC attend either one or two days a week. Each program reflects the value of natural learning, teamwork, flexible thinking, self-motivation and mentoring with Real Work/Real Tools. Peers, parents and OC staff collaborate to help each young person develop the capacity to find and follow his/her passions across the spectrum of multiple intelligences. The goal is lifelong personal growth for all. (Visit "a place for youth" to learn more.)
For OC parents, we provide monthly “open education” discussion groups, quarterly parent meetings, a lounge to meet with other parents (as well as any infants and toddlers in tow), an e-mail listserv discussion group, a web-based Open Connections Community Network in which families can share ideas, talents, resources and information with each other, and lots of resources in our lending library. (Visit "a community of families " to learn more.)
For the entire OC family, we provide special events and get-togethers including Community days (with themes such as Art and Inventions, Music, World cultures, And Science. (Visit "a community of families " to learn more.)
For the general public, we provide Monthly ConnecTour one hour information sessions about OC philosophy, programs, values and community, free introductory seminars on homeschooling/unschooling. mini-workshops and private consultations. (Visit "a community of families " to learn more.)
"Over the years I have met so many fascinating adults through OC, all of whom make their livings doing what they love. All of them had to take chances in choosing to do what made them happy over what would make them more money or offer more security. Meeting those kinds of people has inspired me to think in terms of “what do I want” and “what do I love” rather than “what do others want me to do?"
— OC Teen