Meet the Founders
A former teacher & nurse come together to shift the paradigm in education.
Gillian Instructional Lead & Guide at Infinity Academy, and Private Alternative School & Homeschooling Math Coach.
Over the past decade she has been teaching in the public school system in French Immersion classrooms & has experience as a Math Coach with Primary, Junior & Intermediate children. She left her job in public education because she no longer felt aligned with the institutional system. Gillian uses her expertise in curriculum and assessment, through a project-based approach to nurture the natural curiosity and gifts of each child. She has shared her expertise in project-based learning at symposiums across Ontario and workshops virtually across North America.
Jenna is the Homestead School Operator, and Wellness Director of Inifnity Academy. She is a Registered Nurse BScN, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant & Childbirth Coach.
She has spent many years in her nursing career caring for newborns in a tertiary level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Ottawa. Her career has been fuelled by her passion for all things health and wellbeing, and a deep curiosity around how to create the conditions for human thriving. As her own two children approached school age her career shifted from bedside to the classroom, again with the lens of creating an educational environment that nurtures and promotes thriving children.
She then worked as an occasional teacher at the Ottawa School Board in French Immersion classrooms where her deep understanding around health and wellbeing intersected with childhood education and a passion for Holistic Education was sparked.
“Teaching our children how to think, versus what to think. Nourishing their bodies by living organically and their minds by nurturing their natural curiosity.”
We believe that at every age, learning should be playful, mindful, courageous, and wondrous.
Teaching our children how to think, versus what to think.
Nourishing their bodies through movement and their minds by nurturing their natural curiosity.
A learning model that prioritizes critical thinking & emotional intelligence.
Learning with nature and empowering our children to connect to self.
Celebrating divergent thinking rather than passive task completion.
Creating and investigating rather than conforming and complying.
Learning through experiences as opposed to textbooks and worksheets.
Children embody that learning is a lifestyle through experiences, nature & play
“We co-create new systems where children learn and live organically and become sovereign, self-aware, critical thinkers who thrive in this ever-changing world.”