Testimonials

On this page: In the Media | From Graduates | From Parents

In the Media:

Living Wisdom School of Portland, Oregon has been selected as a 2006 National Schools of Character® Promising Practices award recipient. The Character Education Partnership selected the school’s Food Bank Drive as an exemplary character education initiative. A description of the initiative will appear in the 2006 National Schools of Character book, and the school will receive a certificate of recognition at the CEP forum Oct 27, in Washington, D.C.

For the past four years in a row, Living Wisdom School has the first place award from the Oregon Food Bank for the school collecting the most pounds of food per student in Washington County, Oregon. In addition to collecting food in their neighborhoods, fifth- and sixth-graders take boxes to local businesses—such as banks, florists, and music stores—and their employees and customers contribute.

From Graduates:

Gita McGilloway
Keith Ross
Shyama Helin

About other Graduates:
Eli Snell

From Parents:

Thank you for all that you and the Living Wisdom staff are doing for my children. They are the center of our world and we (Stacee and I) are comforted and appreciative of the nurturing, love, guidance and reinforcement they receive at Living Wisdom.  We cannot imagine a better school or environment for our children.

Don Bohn
Sr. Deputy County Administrator
Washington County, Oregon

 

Our daughter loves it at Living Wisdom School.  The small classroom sizes and overall sense of togetherness helps her to have close relationships with the teachers and other children.  I think she feels like a part of the school, rather than just another student.  I love the educational variety that the school has to offer, teaching lessons of both the heart and mind.  It keeps her balanced and eager to learn.

C.K., mother of first grader

 

You have brought a great deal of peace to our family by providing a loving, calm, and fun environment for our son to grow and learn in.  He is laying down a set of values and I am so thankful you are having influence over this.  If he is able to choose peace, balance, happiness, caring, and giving, over the culturally popular version of success, you will have had a big part to play in this.  Truly.  He was getting all the wrong messages in his former educational setting.

P.S., mother of fifth grader

 

My daughter is a changed person. Maybe I shouldn’t say changed so much as brought out, wiped off and polished. I could begin, perhaps, to detail the growth and peace and sense of spirit that has blossomed in her since beginning first grade at your school, but words would not do the transformation justice. I am so grateful.

M.M., mother of first grader