Cool Lake Arrowhead Sevice School

Children learn through doing. Trying, failing, and figuring out what works. Risky plays helps students learn to assess and mitigate risks. Natural consequences provide valuable information to students as well as provides opportunities to build resilience and emotional intelligence.

A student-centered approach to instruction that immerses students in a non-classroom environment—such as a park, museum, or outdoor landscape—and uses the experience as the foundation for lessons. Students develop a sense of place, and tangible access to their community and ecosystem.

Students will engage with their local community and environment in ways that will show students tangible access points to learn or influence the world around them. This can be accessing local public lands for learning and recreation, or reaching out to local businesses or authorities to encourage change.

Our language is powerful, and at CLASS we strive to use language to connect people rather than shame or blame others. NVC is a language that focuses on needs, as gifts, and authentically expressing those needs and how to go about meeting them.