New Families:
• Create an account in Amilia.
• Amilia accounts are most easily set up from a computer, but it is possible using a phone or tablet.
• Select programs to register for or join the waitlist.
Early drop off and extended day payments
$12.00
Contact us if you have questions or difficulties using the registration system
Sliding Scale Tuition
White Ash Learning utilizes a sliding scale tuition model, a type of fee structure that accounts for variability in assets, income, and expenses as an attempt to increase accessibility for people with less financial and/or class privilege. We recognize there are social, physical, and material barriers to accessing this type of programming as well.
If neither the subsidized or scholarship rates are accessible for your family, please contact us and let us know what your needs are. We are committed to making programs accessible to anyone who is interested and are continue ongoing fundraising to increase our capacity to reach this goal.
This model allows self selection of registration cost, and is dependent on paying the actual cost of attendance if you do not experience difficulty meeting your family’s basic needs such as housing, food, and transportation.
Where do you fall on the tuition scale?
We believe that examining the intersection of privilege, wealth, and class is a lifelong process. The following questions are starting points for exploring these topics, and not a definite tool for evaluating privilege and wealth.
You might qualify to pay full tuition if some or all of these apply to you:
Own property.
Can afford to take time off or go on vacation.
Receive unearned or gifted income.
Have a retirement account or other investments.
Choose to work part time or not at all.
Make more than 75K per year.
Have no debt.
You might qualify to utilize the sliding scale if some or all of these apply to you:
Living paycheck to paycheck.
Struggle to pay minimum payments on debt.
Experience difficulty meeting basic needs like housing, food, and transportation.
Do not have savings.
Your ability to work or earn money is affected by illness, mental or physical disability.
Have to work more than 40 hours a week to make ends meet.
Read more about Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice.
Economics for a Regenerative Future
Join us in a commitment to investing in resilient economic systems that uplift the potential for exchanges that enrich all life.
Sliding Scale options are in place to support families who experience barriers to wealth accumulation. This could mean: parents with physical, emotional, or mental challenges, single parent households, families who have been significantly affected financially by illness, or families who are facing systemic barriers to equal income opportunities. We continue to evaluate our fundraising efforts, grant writing, tuition pricing, work trade and barter arrangements. Finding balance within our current economic and educational systems is an ongoing challenge (we believe all children deserve unrestricted, free access to educational spaces!).
Reciprocity
Reciprocity in economic systems fosters resilient networks of collaboration and support, where individual success bolsters collective well-being. Barter, an age-old form of exchange, involves trading goods, services, or labor directly between parties based on mutually agreed value. While we cannot entirely move away from the current financial system, we choose to utilize alternative forms of capital when possible.
The codes for 2024 offer self-serve, honesty-based discounts up to 45% off tuition, and include a number of hours (or equivalent in trade) that we’re asking families to contribute per season you attend programs (fall, spring, summer). If any aspect of the Sliding Scale is not acessible for your family, contact us to discuss alternative options and create a collaborative plan that fits your family’s circumstances. Apply one of the codes below at checkout to see the discount applied to your cart.
Once your registration has been received, we will reach out to coordinate arrangements for barter or work trade!
What have families contributed in the past?
Subsidized
Barter2 = 5% off | Reciprocity = 2 hours or equivalent
Barter3 = 10% off | Reciprocity = 3 hours or equivalent
Barter4 = 15% off | Reciprocity = 4 hours or equivalent
Barter5 = 20% off | Reciprocity = 5 hours or equivalent
Scholarship
Barter6 = 25% off | Reciprocity = 6 hours or equivalent
Barter7 = 30% off | Reciprocity = 7 hours or equivalent
Barter8 = 35% off | Reciprocity = 8 hours or equivalent
Barter9 = 40% off | Reciprocity = 9 hours or equivalent
Barter10 = 45% off | Reciprocity = 10 hours or equivalent
Winter camp really helped us break out of a rut and open our eyes again to possibility.
I really can’t even measure how meaningful Clover’s experience has been with White Ash Learning! It’s super awesome. Keep being your wonderful selves. Clover is so happy.
The Friday program has been great for our older children, giving them a greater sense of confidence and independence, and allowing them to experience things that they wouldn’t otherwise.
Our child has had so many experiences that could not be gotten anywhere else from learning the tanning process for animal hides to starting a fire with just a flint and steel and of course making tea from autumn berries, and so many more!
My daughter LOVES “Forest school” it’s her favorite thing and my favorite thing for her. She gets more benefits than I can name but most noticeably she’s happier calmer and more grounded, it gives her confidence and such a strong sense of self and connected to her natural world. I’m beyond grateful for this incredible resource, it’s all I ever wanted for her.
Warren loved both weeks he did this summer with White Ash. He especially loved the Monroe location. We’ll be doing it again!!
Our grandson was able to make some really good friends and learn how to be social without having us around to cue him as to what to do.
The project based learning activities are amazing there is no traditional school that will teach him how to tan a deer hide or build a fire with just a flint and steel. He is not restricted to sitting at a desk and is allowed to explore his environment with guidance from his mentors.
I am so grateful for this program. Thank you for everything!!!
The four years with White Ash Learning has helped my son learn to interact in (more) cooperative, creative and confident ways with children AND adults. So glad to see this collaborative, creative, confident, enthusiastic being emerging