THOREAU COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Thoreau Community School is a proposed free charter school intending to serve grades TK-6 in the Santa Barbara area... Thoreau Community School will prepare socially-compassionate and environmentally-literate citizens for the 21st century by combining standards-based academics with a progressive, constructivist, place-based learning environment that builds healthy children, healthy families and a resilient community... Constructivist education is when learners actively construct meaning by building on their background knowledge and experience and then reflect on those experiences. Classroom learning is not only teacher-directed as it was in the past, it is child-directed. Students learn by using critical thinking skills, manipulatives, primary resources, and engaging in hands-on activities.

Primary location: Goleta United States