Our Vision

We dream at a school where Mother Nature is the Teacher.

We dream at a k-4 school where children can feel trusted, protected and happy while learning how to think, how to create, how to make decisions and how to be autonomous.

We dream at a school where teachers are passionate about teaching and learning, are respected, trusted and most of all - well trained in pedagogy and in their specialty.

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Our Mission

Our mission is to create sustainable, experience-based and active ​learning environments for children, youth, parents and educators.

Our Values

Wonder

• Experience wonder and awe toward nature;
• Revere the Earth and all living things;
• Feel kinship with the natural world;
• Experience curiosity and will to discover;

Authenticity

• Foster self-awareness;
• Mindful awareness of thoughts;
• Ability to express thoughts with compassion for the others;
• Seek the passion and relevant contexts for self learning;

​Empathy

• Feel concern, empathy and respect for other people and living things;
• Commit to equity, justice, inclusion and respect for other people;
• See from and appreciate multiple perspectives;
• Value differences of background, experience, abilities, beliefs of other people;
• Feel and show care to all the living things;
• Feel and act generous to the people and the world; 
  

Harmony

• Feel a strong bond with and a deep appreciation of community, place, nature;
  
• Contribute to the understanding and appreciation of self and the world;
  
• Physical, Emotional, Spiritual and Social Development;
  
• Respect for the self, the others and the nature;
  
• Understanding own rhythm and the rhythm of the Earth
  

Community Commitment

• Approach issues and situations from a system perspective;
  
• Understand fundamental ecological, social and cultural principles;
  
• Understanding responsibility;
  
• Understanding and act with discipline;
  
• Appreciation of volunteer work and volunteering;
  
• Understanding consequences;
  
• Turn knowledge into actions and actions into practice;
  
• Civic involvement.
  

Our Goals

• Contribute to every student's Personal, Emotional, Social and Professional development.
• Implement pedagogical strategies developed according to the results of the Scientific Research programs.
• Support children, youth and adults in developing Self-confidence,  Love for nature and animals and Respect for self and others and for nature.

• Implement programs and  activities that take into account, for each student, their:
  • passions, strengths and challenges
    
  • spontaneity, imagination, creativity,
    
  • past experiences, learning needs and learning profile (learning styles, predominant hemispheres, multiple intelligences)
  • cultural differences and similarities, abilities and special abilities

• Implement programs and  activities to develop:
  • values, attitudes and behaviors specific to responsible citizens
  • a strong sense of identity and cultural heritage
  • connexion to nature and the community
  • multiple intelligences and especially the naturalistic intelligence