Nidi Schola

Nuestros profesores

Shanna Sansom brings three years of classroom teaching and leadership from Charlotte Mason Community School to her work, including a year as Executive Director where she built the systems and culture that sustained enrollment and family retention. She has since launched her own educational ventures for homeschooling families, co-founded a BIPOC forest school, and spent over a decade personally teaching her three children — a body of experience that spans institutional leadership, grassroots founding, and the daily practice of home education.

Her approach is grounded in the “Great Recognition,” the Charlotte Mason conviction that all education is divine: and every child is born a person. For Shanna, guarding a child’s capacity for reverence and wonder isn’t incidental to teaching — it is the discipline, one that requires deliberately shielding children from the hurry and abstraction of modern childhood.

Filosofía

Holistic education is not a philosophy we hang on the wall. It is the reason Nidi exists at twelve students and not twenty. It is why we go outside on Fridays instead of opening another workbook. It is why we know the name of every child’s favorite beetle, what makes them cry, and what makes them come alive.

We are not educating a mind. We are tending a person: intellect, emotion, body, and spirit, all at once, all the time. ​​​ Holistic learning activates the whole child: curiosity alongside computation, reverence alongside reading, play alongside poetry. At Nidi, this is not an add-on. It is the structure itself.

Ubicación

Nidi Schola is tucked along Detroit’s East Jefferson corridor, in the heart of the city’s historic Rivertown neighborhood — just steps from the Detroit RiverWalk. It’s one of the most walkable pockets of Detroit, and that matters to us: our Friday field studies take full advantage of it.

Children spend their afternoons exploring Milliken State Park, watching boats along the river, and riding the vintage carousel at Cullen Plaza. We’re building a standing relationship with the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center just up the road, where our students will have regular access to guided nature programming right outside our door. For families coming from across the city, the Detroit People Mover’s Bricktown stop is an easy eight-minute walk, and downtown’s major thoroughfares make drop-off simple no matter which direction you’re coming from.

This is a neighborhood in the middle of Detroit’s story — historic buildings, a working riverfront, and green space that keeps unfolding as the city invests in it. For a Charlotte Mason education built on wonder, unhurried attention, and time outdoors, it’s hard to imagine a better home.

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At Nidi Schola in Detroit, families actively participate in their child’s learning journey. The school fosters a caring atmosphere and prioritizes social and emotional growth. With a focus on outdoor exploration and play, children thrive in a unique and enriching environment.Living books, nature study, hymns by heart, and Fridays that belong entirely to the outdoors. We do not rush to fill their minds with facts. We fill the room with beauty, goodness, and love — the only soil in which a child’s spirit truly grows.