About one year into teaching English at the Northern Academy in Middletown, New York, Michael Fitzgerald was given an opportunity to start an elementary school, in his own model.
At the time, principal Marilyn Torley was planning an expansion of the highly rated private academy to include elementary grades, and she turned to Fitzgerald and his wife for help.
Before moving to New York, the couple had spent a decade homeschooling their four children in Idaho out of a passion to provide the best education they could as parents.
In the tolerant climate of Idaho, they had almost free rein to test homeschooling curriculums of all kinds while expanding their self-study to the beginning of time and across cultures….