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"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."                                                                                                          - Plato

Now Accepting Registrations for 2010

  • Tuition-free, California Public Charter School
  • Project-based, student-driven, inquiry learning, wherein students construct their own meaning through action
  • Arts, languages, integrated science and ecoliteracy
  • Teachers "loop" with their classes, staying with students from Kindergarten through the 2nd Grade
  • Integrated, themed instruction challenging learners to imagine and create the best possible future
  • Piano, Spanish, Yoga, Art, Dance,
    & Garden/Nature E    xperiences
  • HEART/EARTH Curriculum:
    Humanities, Engineering, Arts, Research, and Technology
  • Brain-, inquiry-, and project-based service learning
  • Building hope, capacity, and careers in a green, just and sustainable future
  • Daily garden, outdoor, and field experiences, studying local food-, energy- and water-sheds, seed-banking, sample collecting, composting, vermiculture, etc.
  • Emphasis on compassionate historical and cultural perspectives, retracing the journey of pre-humans and humans through pre-history and history - into the present day and into tomorrow
  • Artists in residence, puppets, and dance dance dance!
  • Culture of radical kindness, participation, belonging, service, good manners and good listening.

619.255.9580
Fax: 619.255.3286
welcome@xaraschools.org

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Journaling at Mission Trails Regional Park

The schools of the Xara Learning Village rise
at a crossroads of evolved movements in:

· developmental and positive psychology ·
· neuroscience and brain-based learning  ·
· inquiry-, project- and problem-based learning ·
· multi-disciplinary, integrated curriculum ·
  · environmental sciences and sustainability ·
· place-based learning and ecoliteracy · 
· servant-leadership and service-learning ·
· multi-lingual, international education ·
· design, and the physical and digital arts ·

 

Here, it all starts in a garden.

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