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Lualima Community Microschool
We are delighted to share some wonderful news with you! Lualima Community Microschool has merged with The Roots That Bind Us to form an innovative new program: Cosmic Roots Nature School. Our new campus, located at 75 CR 152, Georgetown, TX 78262, spans 18 beautiful acres and will offer unique educational experiences through food forestation and outdoor learning with farm animals, a private Cafe and project-based learning!
We are empowering families to take charge of their education and development through a nature-connected, collaborative model that nurtures the whole child and supports the growth and well-being of parents and caregivers to create a more inclusive and equitable society through a community-based approach to education.
Check us out at Cosmicrootsgeorgetown.org
The story of the Lualima Microschool...
Imagine a day where two homeschooling mothers, sharing similar challenging experiences across multiple states, meet in a coffee shop, discussing their hopes and dreams for their children's' educational journeys-what a young boy's life might look like if there were a community in place that met more than once every Blue Moon, how it might feel to have an experience where their children were not only supported in their educational interests but were also leaders shaping them. The two women talked through an environment that allowed for their children to show up just as they are, as unique human beings. They considered this new paradigm where their creative children could set their own goals and in which they, themselves, were able to ask for support for their continuing home education. They imagined how an entire community of such support would feel.
And, voila...Lualima Cooperative emerged into the Georgetown landscape, a new way to develop community for parents and caregivers, in alignment with home education best practices . We quickly evolved into Lualima Community Microschool. Fueled by dry-humored, coffee driven, and passionately supportive mothers who saw a need in their own lives and mapped it out, who decided to meet this need head-on.
Monique and Darleen partnered in founding the Lualima Community Microschool nonprofit program back in 11/2022 and parted ways in 6/2023.
The microschool ran until August, 2024 lead by Darleen as the sole Progam Director until it's day of merge with The Roots That Bind Us to help blossom Cosmic Roots Nature School.