Inside Florida’s growing movement of non-traditional micro-schools

Tucked inside a church on Florida’s west coast, a handful of kindergarteners begin their day reading and singing in Spanish, with two teachers leading the way.

For founder Linda Rozo, this kind of microlearning is all by design.

“The inspiration was definitely my goddaughter,” Rozo said. “I knew that as she got older, what was out there with just traditional way of education, I just wasn’t content with what that looked like, and neither was her mom,” Rozo explained during a recent visit.

So Rozo, who has a master’s degree in education, opened a preschool. With her goddaughter starting kindergarten this year, she decided to expand by opening her first micro-school.