EdVentures Resource Center Offers Alternatives for Your Student

by Tracy McCoy

“We all want happy, confident children that will transition into productive members of the community,” says Kim Treff, co-founder of EdVentures Resource Center, a new education option in Tiger, Georgia that begins classes on August 14th. Kim’s partner at EdVentures, Angela Bishop, is a former public school teacher who left the classroom because she saw untapped potential in her students and her own children. Angela brings years of experience with a hybrid schooling model from the program she developed and successfully ran in middle Georgia. EdVentures integrates individualized core skills with group projects to encourage a love for learning. The two professionals have found that this education style was a perfect fit for their children—and could also benefit yours!

“In 2020, I saw the need for additional educational options in the community. I worked in the public school system for twelve years, then homeschooled my own children for five years, and found this model to be an ideal blend. Our hybrid program will partner with families to bring the homeschool feel to a community setting,” Angela shared. Explaining the daily learning process at EdVentures, Angela continued, “As a group, we will work together, in person, for six weeks and the completed project will be presented to the community. This gives the students pride in what they have accomplished while learning through the process. Then the students will prepare for the next project by spending two weeks of at-home learning. EdVentures believes that learning does not just happen in the classroom and encourages family learning opportunities, travel, connecting with nature, and participating in life skills.”

EdVentures Resource Center will teach good stewardship through connections in Rabun County. They plan to connect with local businesses and organizations to strengthen our future community. They also hope to practice life skills through apprenticeships and volunteering. Real life skills are an important part of the EdVentures platform. Children will be taught reasoning, kindness, responsibility and goal-setting in a hybrid learning process, customized to each child’s needs. Kim says her goal is to help each child become a student of life, pointing out that “Life is learning. We are all still learning every day.”

EdVentures will be accepting students from 3–18 years of age. EdVentures preschool program will offer a Montessori based learning style, half a day for three days a week, provided by Gabriela Perez. Gabriela brings 15 years of experience from Little Way School where she was dedicated to instilling a love for learning. Enrollment will be open all year long and there are no yearly contracts. Homework is not given and there is no attendance policy. EdVentures Resource Center opens the door for families who would like to homeschool but need extra support, as well as provides a community for families who are already homeschooling. It is truly a partnership between the families and their children’s educators.

Children should enjoy learning, and when they do, they flourish! This whole child approach is at the core of what EdVentures Resource Center has to offer. If this is what you’ve been searching for, reach out for more details. To sign up or get more information, call 706-4894162 or visit their website at letedventuresbegin.org.