Method + Values

Learner-centric.

Experiential.

Culturally Responsive.

Our community-based STEAM school ignites a lifelong love for learning in our students through a learner-centric, experiential, and culturally responsive education.

We prepare our learners for their world with adaptability, critical thinking, ethical self-development, social-emotional intelligence, and a profound sense of societal responsibility.

Surrounded by nature, we provide an academic setting rich in outdoor learning spaces, providing students with meaningful opportunities to engage in purposeful work. Our project-based learning not only challenges them but also contributes to the improvement of the broader community.

  • Prepare students to adapt and embrace living in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) and BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible) world. We emphasize resilience, willingness to learn, and tenacity in the face of healthy stress.

  • Promote analytical and problem-solving skills. Encourage students to be curious, ask questions, and think independently, while understanding and valuing that others will think differently from them.

  • Hold space for students to begin defining their values as they develop a sense of personal identity. Encourage students to examine with deep curiosity the convictions they hold, to be open-minded, and to learn the language of civic discourse for debate.

  • Communicate explicitly, by example, and through embedded structures of our school (institutionally) that racial, ethnic, economic, gender, and cultural diversity is vital and a necessity for success. Create an inclusive experience that fosters a sense of belonging for each student, family, educator, and staff member.

  • Cultivate self-awareness, empathy, self-regulation, and interpersonal skills. Provide resources and support for emotional and mental well-being, often linked to physical well-being.

  • Instill a sense of civic duty and environmental stewardship. Encourage students to understand and address societal issues. Maintain an expectation that students will recognize how the opportunities they receive from their parents, school, and community impart a responsibility to lead purposeful lives and to give back to the world.