Megan Neese

My now third grader attributes all her stress resilience and academic curiosity to her experiences at Dig. She references the intensive and immersive task of cleaning out the snail tank and the empowerment she felt being trusted to do it “when I was three!” She can describe the lifelong importance of pillow room and tinkering and big yard. When she struggles through a tough math problem or gets a disappointing result on a spelling test, often when she’s playing chess, she’ll demonstrate healthy self-talk. That self-talk all these years later is near exact vocabulary of Dig teachers. What Dig bestowed was grit and for that I will be forever grateful. My fireball of a toddler was coached to become a wise and centered school student.