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News, Articles, & Updates from different perspectives.

Oak Grove High School Spring Showcase 2025

Featuring creative work from high school elective classes, including studio art, ceramics, woodworking, photography, dance, poetry, and music. 

Middle School, Pneuma Breathwork

Over the past three years, 6th grade students have embarked on a truly unique and meaningful journey breath, reflection, & inner discovery.

Letting kids fail is part of the learning process

Failure is not separate from learning. When a child fails, something essential happens – which we see if we are attentive. In this world of comparison, failure can turn into shame. We live in a culture that idolizes success and recoils at failure. This conditioning can seep into how we raise and educate our children.

Robles Family

Our time here is limited, but perhaps if we can help the school to thrive in our own way, then we can trust that our small gifts will be amplified through the larger efforts of the community.

Apricot Lane Farms

Fifth graders visited Apricot Lane Farms, exploring regenerative polyculture systems, which work with nature rather than against it.

Panel Discussion

This year’s 2025 KFA May Gathering panel discussion about Oak Grove School featured a Q&A session with attendees and virtual viewers.

The garden is alive with the joyful energy of spring, and we are so excited to share all that’s been happening in our special outdoor classroom.

Honor Bands Spring Concert

For the second consecutive year, Honor Bands have performed their annual Spring Concert at The Ojai Underground.

Theme Week 2025

Theme Week offers a chance to revisit and deepen our engagement with the central question guiding our school year.

What does it mean to be fully present? Is it possible to be here in this moment with you and not be distracted by my “to-do” lists or the ever-emerging messages piercing notifications through my many devices and platforms?