Where Your Child's Gift Meets Their Future

There's a particular ache that comes with raising children in this moment of history.

You watch them light up when they pick up an instrument, lose themselves in a story, or puzzle over how something works. You see the spark — that unrepeatable constellation of gifts that makes them them. And then you wonder: where will they learn to tend that spark? Where will it be met with reverence rather than standardization?

You want more than test scores. You want them rooted in something enduring while they reach toward something unprecedented. You want them to know beauty and logic, wonder and skill, tradition and innovation.

You want them prepared for a future we can barely imagine, but anchored in truths that have held steady for millennia.

This is the convergence River Tech was created for.

The Marriage of Ancient Wisdom and Emerging Possibility

River Tech School of Performing Arts & Technology exists at a rare intersection: where Christian faith meets cutting-edge technology, where classical formation meets creative expression, where small-town intimacy meets world-class instruction.

We're not a school that also has arts and tech. We're a school built around the recognition that the children who will shape tomorrow's world need three things equally:

First, they need roots — a foundation in enduring values, biblical wisdom, and a community that sees them as image-bearers, not products. Our Christian, family-centered culture isn't an add-on; it's the soil everything grows from.

Second, they need wings — the technical fluency and creative confidence to build, code, design, perform, and lead in a rapidly changing world. From robotics and game development to musical theater and videography, students don't just learn about these fields. They create in them.

Third, they need to be known — truly seen and called forward by teachers who delight in who they are. With a 1:12 student-teacher ratio and competency-based learning, each child moves at their own pace, challenged where they're ready and supported where they need more time.

What Happens When a Child Is Fully Met

Our parents tell us stories that sound like small resurrections.

Shannon watches her daughter fly ahead in subjects where she excels, without being held back by grade-level constraints. Katrina marvels at how her child comes home buzzing with stories about coding and ukulele and robotics and dance — a breadth she could never have provided on her own. Dustin sees a transformation he describes as "remarkable" — a child who can't wait to share every detail of her day.

What's happening in these moments?

Something essential: children are being invited into their full humanity. They're not being asked to choose between their analytical mind and their artistic soul, between their faith and their curiosity, between fitting in and standing out. They're being shown that all of it belongs, that wholeness isn't naive — it's necessary.

The Teachers Who Tend the Flame

Great education has always been less about curriculum and more about encounter. It's about being in the presence of adults who embody what's possible.

Our faculty brings credentials that inspire (degrees from Full Sail, Master's in Education, professional performing arts careers, even NFL experience), but what matters more is their quality of presence. They possess what parents describe as "contagious joy" and "genuine delight." They're the kind of people who make students think: I want to become someone like that.

Dan Hegelund, our principal and arts director, has spent thirty years as a professional musician and vocal coach, leading productions in venues from Ukraine's Presidential Palace to national broadcasts. Jordan Ezell brings game development expertise and a passion for teaching students to build their own worlds through code. Jerome Long, a certified math teacher and former NFL player, mentors students in mind, body, and character.

They're not just instructors. They're guides into a life well-lived.

The Question Before You

Every parent faces a moment when they must decide: What kind of soil am I planting my child in?

Will it be a place where their particular spark is noticed and kindled? Where their faith is woven through everything they learn, not compartmentalized? Where they're prepared for technological fluency and creative excellence, not because those are trendy buzzwords, but because that's the world they're inheriting?

Will it be a place small enough that they're truly known, and rich enough in possibility that they can discover who they're meant to become?

If you've felt that ache — the longing for your child to be fully met — we'd love to meet you.

Join us for an Open House: November 19th & December 3rd at 3:00 PM at 1687 E Horsehaven Ave, Post Falls. Come see what happens when performing arts and technology, ancient wisdom and modern tools, Christian formation and creative freedom converge in a single extraordinary community.

Application deadline: December 10th, 2025Start date: January 5th, 2026

The remaining seats won't wait. But more importantly — your child's one unrepeatable childhood won't wait either.

Let's not waste it.

Learn more and apply: rivertechschool.com Questions? learn@rivertech.me