Mission
The mission of GPCS is to help children reach their
full individual and academic potential by providing an education that
meets or exceeds the local and state educational standards through
purposeful engagement in their local community, ecology, culture and
history.
Vision
Common Instructional Characteristics
The Glade Park Community School is inspired by the work of several leading educators and a variety of methods. These include:
- The multiple intelligences approach of Howard Gardner.
- The Waldorf approach of Rudolph Steiner.
- The student-initiated project learning of Integrated Day.
- The skill building techniques of traditional Western education.
- The content standards as required by the state.
- The natural world will form a central vehicle for curricular content.
- Learning will take place outside in the natural world when appropriate, throughout the year.
- There will be the daily use of storytelling, music, painting, handwork, poetry, puppetry, drama, or clay and sculpture.
- A balance of whole group instruction with small group work and individual attention as deemed appropriate by the teacher.
- Children will always be offered a variety of learning activities to address differences in learning styles. Worksheets will be used a t a minimum as needed for practice or modeling information.
- There will be commitment to the dignity of the child, the authority of adults, and the importance of community.
- The teacher will be a model of artist, naturalist and passionate learner.