RECENT FEATURES

Our website is currently undergoing a new re-design and is under construction. Our newly
re-designed website is scheduled for launch on March 1st. Some information here may be out of date however you can call our office for more information.

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The Annual Tiller School Museum
What a wonderful night of world culture and history,
learning, friendship and community.
click here to view the museum

Project Webfoot
4th and 5th grades learn to protect and preserve our coastal wetlands with an ongoing educational program sponsored by Ducks Unlimited.

2nd Annual Evaluation and Overview
by the Board of Directors

Tiller School Staff

ABOUT THE TILLER SCHOOL

We are a group of diverse families who have chosen to be part of a shared educational community called the Tiller School. Our goal is for children, parents and teachers to become shared owners of a school in which we all feel involved, at home, and have appropriate control. Our children spend a significant portion of their lives here. Through modeling and teaching social responsibility, we strive to provide a family atmosphere that is “safe;” safe to make mistakes, safe to try out new ideas, and safe for disagreement with one another.

Our aim is to be responsive to change and continually modify our ideas and methods to better meet the needs of our students and community.

The Tiller Charter School is a non-profit educational corporation which was established by a group of parents and teachers in 1993 to provide a quality, enriched education for the children of Carteret County.  In the Spring of 1998, the Tiller School applied for and was granted charter status by the North Carolina Department of Instruction.  Charter School status provides the school with per child public school funding for operating expenses.

The Tiller Charter School is dedicated to establishing an educational setting where self-motivated, lifelong learners develop.  We strive to do this in an environment that provides the security for students to learn without fear of failure and where dignity, self-discipline and responsibility are valued. Our program emphasizes a low student to teacher ratio of 15 to 1; a challenging academic program including communication skills, mathematics, science, history, geography and technology.  Enrichment through the arts is also emphasized, as well as a social curriculum emphasizing the values of caring, respect, trustworthiness, fairness and citizenship.

Together we are creating a better place to learn!

It is not enough to prepare our children for the world; we must prepare the world for our children.

--Louis Rodriguez

If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again

If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less and know to care more,
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites,
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I'd run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging, and less tugging. I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about
the power of love.

-- Diane Loomans