These project goals exist to communicate our purpose, as we believe our role as alternative educators is to facilitate holistic goals that traditional schooling may overlook.  

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The Espiral method is constructivist, building upon individual or collective knowledge already experienced, and what exists intrinsically in the child. Every child at any stage arrives with basic needs, skills, challenges and potentials and grows to expand their being in an integral way within the process. With the teachers’ guidance, the child advances gradually, extending spirally, while at the same time internalizing the experience at a deeper level.  These goals keep our focus on providing quality alternative education that children can build upon in any social and academic environment:

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Creating Community for Peace- We know that peace comes from within, and can ripple outward when cultivated with respect. We believe world peace is possible. Using tenets of programs like Conscious Discipline and Love & Logic, children observe the peace within each other, and how it transmits within the environment, through the school community and eventually beyond.

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Live and Active Multi-Pedagogies- Each teacher in this program has come from their own unique path through research-based and child-friendly education models. Some pedagogies include Montessori Method, Emergent Curriculum, Forest Schooling, Waldorf Education, Active Schooling and more. We build learning around the children’s interests which allows them to follow their learning direction on a life- long educational journey.

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Personalized and Integral Education- Class sizes are kept small so teachers are able to pay closer detail to each child’s needs and developmental milestones. Every child is a whole world with different rhythms and forms of learning. The personalized education allows the child to perform from their own unique needs.

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Incorporation of Multiple Intelligences- Not all children learn the same way. In order to increase the understanding of topics, we expose children to learn through a myriad of their senses. Some intelligences include: Linguistic, Mathematical, Spatial, Musical, Corporal, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal and Naturalist.

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Social and Emotional Education- Every conflict has a positive solution. We are trained to model, support and strengthen children’s abilities to help them navigate the sometimes complex realm of the social scene. Children will learn to read and react to the social cues of others. We model positive language and view problem solving as a way to learn and grow.

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Connection with Nature- Children, hungry for learning, obtain in nature the opportunity to marvel and explore every detail of it through all their senses: observe, touch, feel, taste and smell. Through nature the spark of curiosity is born and will help them to know and respect the connection among all living things, and integrate with the environment through their adult life.

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Weekly Spanish/English Immersion- Children learn best when they can engage with their bodies. Through fun and purposeful activities, children will engage in artistic and project-based activities through which they will be exposed to Spanish and English in fun and meaningful ways. The teachers will meet regularly to monitor the progress of the children via formal and informal observations.

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Creativity, Art, Music and Movement- Through music, art and movement children will strengthen and develop large and small muscle control (motor control) through directed, open, and self-directed classes. Each day we will focus on experiences that interconnect brain hemispheres in order to enhance the skills and prepare for the more complex applications of academic areas such as literacy, mathematics, etc.