Get To Know Us
Forever Wild is a Traveling Homeschool Community
where children and families make friends, take risks and discover who they are.
We’re Solomon and Amanda Dixon, founders of Forever Wild, and proud parents of five adventurous kids. Our journey began in Buffalo, New York, and has taken us around the world in pursuit of meaningful connection, growth, and freedom.
Solomon has spent years mentoring youth in middle and high schools through social-emotional development—using breakdancing, spoken word poetry, music, and creative writing as tools for empowerment. Amanda brings a rich background as an elementary school teacher in traditional classrooms, with a passion for helping kids grow in confidence, curiosity, and connection.
Together, we design and teach the Forever Wild families with heart, purpose, and a deep belief in what’s possible for every child. Outside of our work, Solomon and the kids train regularly in Brazilian jiu-jitsu—a practice that challenges them physically and mentally, while reinforcing values like perseverance, humility, and respect.
Red below more about our individual journeys and the passion behind Forever Wild.
About Solomon Dixon
Writing, dancing, singing, playing the keys, Jujitsu, mountain climbing, breathwork, meditation, and Qigong. These are just some the arts of choices of Solomon Dixon.
After working with not-for-profit groups, Citizens Campaign for the Environment and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in his early 20's, Solomon Dixon turned his efforts elsewhere. He found that teaching and performing were his primary passions.
He began teaching writing, self-expression, and poetry around the United States and developed writing workshops for over 20 schools as well as working with over 30,000 students! He has shared his passion for writing with adolescents in a way that develops a writer at their very core.
After growing up in foster care and being adopted as an adolescent, Solomon turned his trouble beginnings into a passion for mentorship and sharing life experiences to help each child become the best version of themselves. Solomon has opened for Salt -N- Pepa, Public Enemy, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and other well know music groups and artist. He won So You Think You Can Dance New York Chapter and continues to use dance to open creative doors for children helping the to gain confidence and believe in themselves.
After he co-founded The Living Poets Society, Solomon Dixon competed at the national level for individual and group competitions for spoken word poetry. He placed in the Top 50
Spoken Word artists in the world.
Solomon is a native to Syracuse, NY but in 2020, the Dixon family relocated to the Dominican Republic to open Forever Wild Children's Garden. He has been crucial to the ethos and community building between the children. Working daily on growth within ourselves through qi gong, meditation and
breathwork, the kids are always excited to see what challenges and activities Solomon will come up with each day!
About Amanda Dixon
After teaching for nearly two decades in the United States, Amanda Dixon and her family moved to the Dominican Republic in 2020 to open their first international micro school, Forever Wild Children's Garden. In her early years, she attended Canisius College in Buffalo, New York and earned her Bachelors' and Masters' Degree in Elementary Education.
Throughout her 20's and 30's, Amanda Dixon has taught in charter schools and
private schools in the cities of Buffalo, NY. Specializing in turning the most reluctant readers into reading super stars, Amanda focused all her efforts on raising the reading levels of young children at the elementary level at that time.
After years of work in the traditional school setting, she has turned her efforts elsewhere. She began to study different forest schools and styles of education. She has become fascinated by the idea that children can learn without explicit instruction while sitting in chairs, teachers lecturing and countless workbook pages. She has learned how children can explore, create and build outside in nature and become just as strong of readers, mathematicians and scientists.
After having her own children, she began to design programming that would be built for them as they grew and attempted to implement into her own.traditional classroom.
Teaching in schools hasn't been the only art keeping her busy. Gymnastics, dance, and drawing are the arts of choice for Amanda Dixon. After a decade in competitive gymnastics, Amanda turned to coaching and then taking dance classes at a local studio. Nowadays, she has turned all those arts into her classroom and instruction for children to explore.
With a background in traditional teaching from United States, Amanda Dixon brings that knowledge to build an exceptional homeschool enrichment program for children.