Guiding Principles

EXPERIENTIAL
Learning incorporates our senses, spirits, hearts, hands, minds, and non-humans in order to integrate experience, reflection, intellectual understanding, and experimentation.

CHILD CENTERED
Centering the needs, interests, temperament and capacities of students in the moment and during planning to design educational interventions that simultaneously challenge learners while supporting agency and integration.

DECOLONIZING
An invitation to address, explore and unlearn the dimensions of oppression, power, and privilege that are part of our own lives, relations, tools, structures, histories and beliefs.

COLLABORATIVE
Engaging learners, families, artists, educators and community members to expand relations and learning outside of traditional power dynamics.

BELONGING
Engaging learners in building self-awareness, self-confidence, and interdependence through connection to place, the land, and non-human, to engage in deep localization.