Community Values
Our Mission
Through socially engaged early childhood education that prioritizes collaborative exploration, we grow a community of young children and their adults where there is empathy for all and connection to the natural world. Our work is anti-bias, anti-racist and nature-based. The school is a great space for antiracism work, and it keeps growing with the support of our community. We are going to do this work with you to propel us into continued forward momentum to build a place where every child belongs.
Social justice starts with us adults doing our own work,
so we have tools and the ability to be self-reflective.
And then, modeling antiracism for our children
and bringing in the resources to educate them.
Antiracism work begins with looking inward and understanding your biases. When discussing race with children the time is always now! Studies have shown that children start to notice race at 6-months-old. As we are doing our own work as adults to have the tools to acknowledge and provide counter messaging to our own biases, we can also work on modeling anti-racist action for our children and having direct conversations with them discussing their race, what is racism and how to be anti-racist.