GROWERS | EATERS | WRITERS | READERS
Little learners
love to explore. At Tiny, we merge academic skills with functional play to help our students establish lifelong relationships with food, nature, and all living things. Utilizing our whole environment as the backdrop for education, we can help empower tiny critical thinkers to seed change.
About
Tiny is a private play-centered tutoring service that emphasizes literacy and nature as pillars for education. Kitchens, backyards, parks, and beaches provide rich classrooms for practicing functional skills and learning new ones.
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We create custom curriculum around each student's particular skills, interests, needs, and areas for growth. Every child is unique—individualized instruction allows educators to build upon what's being taught at school, celebrate a child's special interests, and monitor their improvement with the tough stuff.
Academic Readiness
Our curated activities are designed to build vocabulary and literacy, sorting and sequencing skills, and promote critical thinking.
Social-Emotional Learning
Our goal is to develop emotional intelligence by fostering empathy, focus, decision-making, and self-regulation skills.
Mindfulness
We practice age-appropriate meditation and engagement of our five senses to ground in the present moment.
Environmental Initiative
Nature-based learning establishes lifelong relationships with all living organisms—and kids fiercely protect their friends!
Isabella's work braids together three careers as an educator, copywriter, and farmer. Teaching has always been a main component of her craft, and, after five years writing and editing, she expanded into food systems work. Isabella received her Bachelor's Degree from Sarah Lawrence College with a concentration in Creative Nonfiction and Spanish Literature, and is now pursuing her Master's in Food Studies from NYU. She is trained in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and employs this skillset in all of her work.
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With over a decade's teaching experience, Isabella has led students in various capacities: as a garden and culinary educator at Ross and Hayground schools in the Hamptons; teaching art to elementary students in New Jersey; as a private literacy tutor for all ages; and facilitating creative writing workshops for incarcerated adults. She is bilingual and provides instruction in both English and Spanish.
Isabella (she/her)
Founder & Educator
Philosophy
By grounding our lessons in nature, children are empowered to creatively develop academic skills through active participation in our climate. At Tiny, we're applying what's learned inside to the great outdoors. We're practicing language, math, science, history, social studies, and whole-system lessons while we cook, garden, draw, chat, and practice guided play. Our little ones learn experientially. Most of all, when we're outside, we learn to cultivate a love and reverence for food, soil, plant life and pollinators.
Home gardens provide rich opportunities to practice fine and gross motor skills with toddlers—weeding, watering, harvesting and hanging out with bugs are all vehicles for larger learning. Kitchens are filled with academic potential while tiny chefs practice prepping and cooking backyard harvests or market produce. Bringing books outside encourages little readers of all ages to foster expansive relationships with the written word, and the world outside is overflowing with inspiration for tiny writers to tell stories.
Pricing
Because every family is unique, we create custom programming to suit your needs. Each curricula is developed in close contact with caregivers to establish a shared plan. This means working with you to accomplish set goals for your little learners, using resources within reach. Sliding scales allow all families to benefit from our services because access to education is a right, not a privilege. We want to work with you! So we're keen on making that possible for everyone.