CHOICE DELTA & Fire Studio Parent Contract 2025-2026
As CHOICE parents, we promise to the founders and to our children that we will:
1. Acknowledge personal responsibility: We acknowledge that our child holds the primary responsibility for their learning, followed by our family.
2. Trust our child and trust the self-paced learning process: We will welcome the self-paced environment at CHOICE. We will be patient and respect that our child’s path may be different from ours. We will counsel together with our child while setting their year, session and week goals. We will remember that while we are our child’s greatest mentor, the goals are our child’s goals, not our goals.
3. Embrace failure and experience as the best teachers: We will embrace the messiness of experiential learning. We will allow our child to fail early, cheaply and as often as necessary. In order to empower them with the skills and beliefs to solve their own problems, we will resist intervening to solve our child’s problems or remove obstacles. Instead, we will have conversations about the tools and mindsets they have access to, to solve their own problems. We will regularly reflect on difficult experiences as opportunities for growth.
4. Support accountability: Our child will run the studio with their peers through the delegation of certain rights by owners, parents and guides. The Guides’ role is to focus on an engaging set of challenges, games, stories and questions. We will support the systems of accountability that the studio creates.
5. Support our child in their goal setting: At the beginning of the year, we will meet with our child to mentor them as they set their yearlong goals. In between each session we will meet with our child to reflect on their yearlong goals and mentor them as they set their session goals.
6. Meaningfully engage with our child: We will be present and listen well in conversations with our child, seeking to understand by asking questions. We will give growth mindset praise. We will schedule a time to hold regular, brief, parent/child Journey Meetings to review and celebrate our child’s goals, peer feedback, and session reflections. We will support our child with their schoolwork at home in a learner driven way and act if needed to: remove distractions (like gaming, video, or social media), lessen resistance, or identify and overcome feelings of victimhood so our child can thrive. We will have face to face conversations with our child about issues that arise at school.
7. Meaningfully engage with the CHOICE community: We will attend exhibitions and at least 3 of the 4 parent meetings where Socratic discussions will focus on our Hero’s Journey as parents. We will read the weekly communications EVERY WEEK and respond in a timely manner when a response is requested. We will give honest, thoughtful feedback in our surveys four times a year. We will assume the best of others in the CHOICE community, modeling respect, honesty, and kindness. If a challenge arises with another parent, we will handle it with civility and compassion. We will bring our child to the studio on time and understand that if they arrive late, they may not be able to participate in that morning’s activities.
8. Further our own Hero’s Journeys as parents: We will actively seek solutions to our questions rather than asking the school for answers. We will refer to the Potential Struggles for Parents on a Hero’s Journey at CHOICE note, the Family Badges, the CHOICE handbook, and our Running Partners for counsel. On the rare occasion where it is appropriate to contact a guide, we will use the shared email choiceparentsguides@gmail.com knowing that all guides and owners have access to that account. If there is ever a safety concern, we may contact JeVonne directly on Slack. We will engage in our own active learning project (such as a book, a heroic habit, or a self-improvement project) that we will share with our child/children. We will value learning to learn, learning to do and learning to be.
By signing below, I acknowledge and commit to these promises. I understand that breaking these promises can result in being removed from the community.