Christa Niven - Educational Flow - Building the Schools of the Future

Christa Niven and her Journey Schools have made vast strides in
creating a utopian template for learning, focusing as much on
emotional intelligence as academic excellence. She began her
career in education at the Institute of Child Development
researching infancy, risk and resiliency in early childhood. She
then directed a program supporting homeless teen parents and
their children living in shelters. With a B.S. in Child
Psychology and Masters in Education, Christa founded a school
serving chemically dependent youth and their children, working in
that space for ten years while also serving as a therapeutic
foster parent. In 2005, Christa founded her first of several
preschools based on Reggio-Emilia, Conscious Discipline, natural
play, assessment and observation and natural foods. These schools
were consistently voted the best in their areas and Christa was
nominated Director of the Year in 2012 and 2016. In 2017, Christa
created the Journey School Development Group and launched the
first franchises in the Journey School brand in various US
cities. She also relocated to Costa Rica, were she opened the
Journey School of Costa Rica, the first birth-12 grade school in
the Journey family of schools (Swan Dive host Stuart Sheldon's
children are both students). Married for nearly 30 years, Christa
and Jim are proud parents of five children and the frequent
foster parent to 13-17-year-olds coming to them through foster
care, private and therapeutic placements.



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