Developing Team
Blanche Lonsbury
Founder & Director
I have a degree in Early Childhood Education from San Francisco State University and have been teaching in forward thinking schools for 17 years. I am passionate about the developing mind; more specifically - sensory integration, creativity, resiliency, problem solving and problem seeking. My career has been focused on facilitating relationships with nature and rediscovering play as a vehicle for teaching and learning.
I have led the development of frameworks that place individual and collective values as the base for learning, and have witnessed the beautiful learning culture this type of relationship-centric focus facilitates. I believe that play and mindfulness in education transforms the teaching/learning paradigm. My intention is to create a learning culture that ignites children to think differently about what learning means and for teachers and parents to see each other as allies and partners in the teaching-learning relationship.
I have a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of History, I’m Brazilian, passionate about reading, writing, listening to stories. I grew up around parents that loved embroidery and woodworking so art, painting, crafts, dance and theater are part of me.
I first came at Raindrops as a mom and fell in love with the methodology, the affection, the school's respect for the child. Adding Nature to my family’s life made me see how much it regulates our bodies and minds.
It has been an honor to help guide and see how each child connects with the world and to have the opportunity to work towards a healthier and happier child development.