Reign & Root Academy

🌿 NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS – Summer Counselor-in-Training (CIT) 🌿

Do you know a responsible, kind, and enthusiastic teen looking for a meaningful way to spend the rest of the summer?

Reign & Root Academy is seeking a Summer Counselor-in-Training (CIT) to join our licensed family child care program for July and August!

This opportunity is perfect for a teen who enjoys working with young children and is interested in exploring careers in:
🍎 Early Childhood Education
🧠 Psychology
🩺 Nursing
💙 Social Work
📚 Teaching
🌱 Child Development
…or anyone who simply loves helping children learn and grow!

As a CIT, you’ll work alongside me while assisting with:
✨ Preparing learning activities
📚 Reading stories
🎨 Arts & crafts
🌿 Gardening and outdoor exploration
🎵 Music and movement
🧸 Organizing classroom materials
🫧 Light classroom cleaning and setup

This is a hands-on leadership and learning opportunity where you’ll gain valuable experience in an early childhood setting. You will always work under my direct supervision and will never be responsible for supervising children independently.

I’m looking for someone who is:
💚 Kind and patient
💚 Dependable and punctual
💚 Creative and energetic
💚 Eager to learn
💚 A positive role model
💚 Excited to engage with young children through play and exploration

📅 Summer availability (July & August) is preferred.

What you’ll gain:
🌟 Hands-on experience in early childhood education
🌟 Leadership and mentorship
🌟 Résumé-building experience
🌟 Community service hours (if applicable)
🌟 A professional letter of recommendation upon successful completion
🌟 Weekly stipend (based on experience, availability, and applicable requirements)

📍 Reign & Root Academy is located in Roslindale, MA.

Interested? I’d love to hear from you!

📩 Private Message me
📧 [email protected]
📱 Call or Text: 617-863-9957

Please share this post—you never know which amazing teen might be looking for an opportunity just like this! 🌿💚

What looks like play is actually purposeful learning. 🌿☀️

Today our little learners balanced, watered our garden, explored sensory water play, and strengthened the muscles they’ll one day use for writing. Every experience is thoughtfully planned to support confidence, coordination, independence, and joyful discovery.

At Reign & Root Academy, we believe childhood deserves to be unhurried, hands-on, and deeply meaningful. Our days are rooted in curiosity, relationships, and experiences that honor how young children learn best.

Thank you for following along as our school continues to grow. Whether you’re a parent, educator, or fellow advocate for children, we hope these little moments inspire big conversations about what early childhood education can be.

Because when we nurture the roots, the future flourishes.

🐸💚 Rain or shine, childhood is meant to be explored.

There’s something magical about little boots, frog raincoats, muddy rocks, and curious minds. 🌿✨ At Dr. D 🍎✏️Reign & Root Academy , we believe learning doesn’t stop because of a few raindrops—it begins there.

As we prepare for fall, we have ONE final opening available beginning at the end of August, and we’re looking for one more family to join our little community.

🍃 Nature-based play
🎨 Hands-on learning
🧩 Neuro-affirming and child-led
🤎 Small group, family atmosphere
🌎 Diverse, inclusive, and rooted in wonder

Here, children are free to splash, climb, imagine, create, and grow at their own pace. We slow down, get messy, ask questions, and celebrate childhood the way it was meant to be.

Because the best classrooms aren’t always inside four walls.

If you’ve been searching for something that feels more like an extension of home than a daycare… something intentional, nurturing, and joy-filled… this might be your sign. 💚

✨ Just ONE spot remains for Fall 2026.
Once it’s filled, enrollment will close.

📍Roslindale, MA
🌿 Ages 18 months–4 years
🗓️ End of August start date
📩 DM us to schedule a tour or learn more.

Reign & Root Academy
Private School Quality. Homeschool Values.
🌱 Where little learners reign where they are planted.

The Art of Childhood

✨ Childhood isn’t something to rush.

At Dr. D 🍎✏️Reign & Root Academy , we believe in honoring the art of childhood—creating space for wonder, movement, creativity, and meaningful relationships.

Today, our young learners explored light and color through prism blocks, engaged in sensory-rich play outdoors, and brought literacy to life with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. We painted, investigated, asked questions, and learned through doing.

🌱 Nature-based learning
📚 Full curriculum
🌍 African-centered perspectives
🤎 Faith-based principles
🖐🏾 Hands-on experiences
✨ Children are met where they are

Because childhood was never meant to be hurried.

Little hands, big responsibility! One of our learners gave our large garden bed some love today. Now we wait (and watch 👀) for those first signs of growth. There’s something special about teaching patience, care, and wonder—one watering can at a time. 🌿

🌿 ONE FALL 2026 SPOT REMAINS 🌿

People often ask me why I created Reign & Root Academy.

The answer isn’t found in a business plan.

It’s found in four little boys who changed my life.

As a mom of four, neurodivergent children, I’ve spent years sitting in meetings, advocating, researching, asking questions, celebrating victories, and navigating challenges that many families know all too well.

What I learned along the way is simple:

Traditional school works beautifully for many children.

But it doesn’t work for every child.

Some children need more movement.
Some need more creativity.
Some need more flexibility.
Some need more understanding.
Some need adults who see their strengths before their struggles.

And some families are simply looking for a place where their child doesn’t have to fit into a box.

That’s why Reign & Root exists.

Not because I thought the world needed another school.

But because I knew there were families searching for something different—the kind of environment where relationships matter, where children are known deeply, where learning is personalized, and where character, curiosity, faith, and growth are nurtured right alongside academics.

Every part of this program was built from lived experience as both an educator and a mom.

The sensory-friendly spaces.
The flexible learning approach.
The emphasis on strengths.
The focus on emotional well-being.
The commitment to seeing the whole child.

This isn’t just what I do.

It’s what I’ve lived.

This morning, I had the privilege of meeting another wonderful family during a tour. Watching parents light up as they realize there really are educational options that honor who their child is never gets old.

And with that tour, we now have just ONE remaining Fall 2026 enrollment spot.

No pressure. No urgency tactics.

Just gratitude.

Gratitude that families trust us with what matters most.

And gratitude that God continues to bring the right families at the right time.

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🏴‍☠️🌊 Treasure Island Adventures Await!

Sometimes the best learning materials aren’t found in a catalog—they’re made with a pool noodle, a few Q-tips, a printer, and a little creativity! 😊

For our Treasure Island theme, I created floating island markers for our water table using pool noodles, Q-tips, and flags representing real islands from around the world.

As our explorers sail the seas tomorrow, they’ll discover islands such as Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Réunion, and São Tomé & Príncipe.

While they’re playing, they’ll also be:
⚓ Building vocabulary
🌍 Exploring geography and world cultures
💧 Strengthening fine motor skills
🧠 Developing problem-solving skills
🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 Practicing social interaction and cooperative play
🏴‍☠️ Using their imaginations through dramatic play

At Reign & Root Academy, we believe children learn best when they can touch, explore, create, question, and wonder. What may look like “just play” is actually rich, meaningful learning taking place through hands-on experiences.

Tomorrow, our little pirates set sail! 🌊🦜🗺️