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What is
Nature School Cooperative?
We are an outdoor nature-based preschool mixed ages 3-6 y.o.
All of our programs are nature immersive learning with a learner-led & play-based approach.
We are a teacher owned and led cooperative, and a Public Benefit Company.
We seek to become a tuition free outdoor nature based school. Currently we are cultivating a Pay-What-You-Can culture.
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![In her book, The Future of Smart - Dr Ullca Hansen (author, educational thought leader, mother, social change advocate and former Denver School Board Candidate 2023) describes that Holitistic Indigenous Liberatory (HIL) schools are the most adept at creating impacts that support students and families with skill sets that prepare us for characteristics of a present and future of VUCA in the next 20-40 years.
VUCA is an acronym characterizing the near future that many people, even those from opposing political viewpoints, seem to agree on. A future where “smart” means we have the skills to deal with Volatility Uncertainty Complexity and Ambiguity.
She says “Education is at its own leapfrog moment as we face a choice about whether or not to invest in the ‘infrastructure’ needed to rapidly make human-centered/liberatory education available to all communities [as opposed to only wealthy and privileged communities]... [At the same time] You can’t ask people to have a sense of mutuality and agency and to build the communities in human-centered liberatory schools if they don’t have the sense of belonging, the sense of relating, or the sense of being part of something bigger than themselves.”
Learn more about how we center these practices in our teaching approach in our latest blog. 🔗 in bio](https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/428416899_1365386544133663_1528721063638284323_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=zl7AuRfHbXkQ7kNvwEnEPkR&_nc_oc=Adn1vGvhm0CapAZ_OE4UcYGsf_iODxqf9JMLk3C8Wt6D7rVHX_t9ZW86Hp0biMd7iXo&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=c56BZeNzICRwx1F8lMvSVg&oh=00_AfOK3GCfv66hP7zu7ZlKI04WM9QLUtCp6LzUoedBbh1tIQ&oe=68496679)
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