Our mission at A Fuller Education to inspire a love for learning in children and to provide parents with the skills to guide their children's education.

Joanna Cervantez

Background:
  • 10+ years of teaching experience 
    • Preschool - High School
    • Public, charter, and private schools
  • 5 years of experience coaching teachers and administrators with the UCLA Math Project out of the Graduate School of Education
  • 3+ years of experience teaching STEM classes and writing STEM curriculum
  • Undergraduate education in Elementary Education with a minor in Biblical Studies
  • Graduate education in administration and school leadership
  • Mom of three boys!

Joanna is the passionate educator and founder of A Fuller Education. Since her first year in the classroom, she’s been on a journey of re-imagining education and discovering how children learn best. She began as a middle school math teacher in inner-city Los Angeles and later in a school for an orphanage in El Salvador. Since 2013, she’s been coaching K-12 teachers and administrators to help them find ways to authentically attend to their students’ thinking and how to transform their classrooms into joyful learning communities.

Joanna holds a Bachelors of Arts in Elementary Education with a concentration in Mathematics from Biola University and a Masters of Education in Organizational Leadership from Teachers College at Columbia University. She currently lives in Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania with her husband and their three sons (4 years old, 2 years old, and newborn).

Our Learning Approach & Core Values

  • Identity comes from Christ, not from the world and not from being “good”.

  • We study God's Word so that we can get to know God and know that He can be trusted.

Christ-Centered

  • Learning happens when students are ready, see purpose, make connections to their world, experience it and reflect on it.

  • Students should be positioned to take ownership of their learning so that they are doing the heavy cognitive lifting (not the teacher).

  • True learning is experiential, relational, emotional, spiritual, connected, and real-world.

Customized Learning

  • Our 21st century world needs students who can problem-solve and think critically. We are preparing them for jobs that don’t yet exist.

  • We focus on process over outcomes & reasoning over rote-memorization.

Critical Thinking

  • Relationships matter. Our community matters. We value each other and engage in each other's thinking and perspective.

  • Parents are our partners. They are the child's first and primary teacher. Parents offer expertise and they can benefit from being in the classroom to learn alongside our teachers.

Collaboration

You can find us in these Microschool Directories

KaiPod Marketplace A Fuller Education
PA Families for Education Choice A Fuller Education
Microschools.com A Fuller Education

Microschools: News Highlights & Supporting Data

  • "Still, the fact that parents have pulled their children out of public school to place them at Abundance speaks to the frustration and even desperation that have made the risk feel worth it."

    New York Times

  • "There are up to 2.7 million home-schooled kids compared to 1.5 million in 2019... Homeschooling allows families to still stay actively engaged and to build even closer relationships."

    Good Morning America

  • "Innovations like microschools, which generally have no more than 20 kids per classroom, are giving parents real choices outside ordinary public schools."

    The Free Press

  • "Typically, you're used to being handed a curriculum and told how to do it and what is expected. Now, it’s about finding what is going to work best for each child."

    Forbes

  • “Our goal is to mold critical thinkers that are well rounded, and therefore both academic and non-academic outcomes are necessary. We also work hard to create community within the program.”

    VELA

  • "Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income."

    National Home Education Research Institute

  • "Microschooling may have started on the margins more than a decade ago, but it has now entered the mainstream as an increasingly sought-after educational option."

    Foundation for Economic Education

  • "The findings in the Duvall studies suggest that, in as little as 2 hours, homeschoolers can engage in the same amount of strategic learning behavior as public-school students experience in an entire school day. "

    Home School Legal Defense Association

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