A public school community for opening minds and inspiring wellness. May your heart and head speak with one voice.
Our Mission
Wellheart’s mission applies Reggio-inspired pedagogy and research based practices for students to experience joyful, immersive, and inquiry-based learning in the context of their environment. We empower youth to make informed decisions and take actions rooted in knowledge, investigative thinking, and compassion. Our educational process is focused on values of human dignity, active participation, wellness, and freedom.
Our Vision
Wellheart’s vision will cultivate ecologically aware and open-minded citizens with the capability to support themselves, others, and the planet through constructivism and collaboration. The educational model will integrate peers, teachers, family, community, and the environment to advance a culture of growth, symbiosis, and sustainability.
Guiding Principles
To achieve our mission, vision, and goals, WCS has adopted 11 guiding characteristics:
- 1) Reggio-Inspired Pedagogy
- 2) Environment as 3rd Teacher
- 3) Outdoor Classroom
- 4) Teacher as a Researcher
- 5) Families as a Partner
- 6) Making Learning Visible
- 7) Developmentally Appropriate Practices
- 8) Wellness Education
- 9) Socio-Emotional Well-Being
- 10) Creativity
- 11) Free Thinking.
That the idea of building a school would even occur to ordinary people, women, laborers, workers, farmers, was already traumatic enough. The fact that these same people, with no money, no technical assistance, authorization or committees, no school inspectors or party leaders, were working side by side, brick by brick to construct the building was the second shock. … It turned logic and prejudice, the old rules of pedagogy and culture upside down. It set everything back to square one.
Loris Malaguzzi, Pedagogista & Psychologist
