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Peninsula School
Location: Menlo Park, California
Since its founding, Peninsula's mission has been to foster the development of the whole child by promoting creativity, independence, joy of learning, personal responsibility, and self-esteem, as well as academic excellence. The success of this mission has depended upon the creation of an "extended family" of children, faculty, and parents. Teachers and parents provide the guidance, trust and unconditional support necessary for children to experiment and learn about themselves and their world.
Highlights:
The school's goals are:
- To help children build a positive self-image;
- To help children grow in all areas: perceptually, intellectually, socially, emotionally and physically;
- To nourish children's natural creativity and desire to learn through a wide variety of experiences.
Peninsula offers a non-competitive, non-authoritarian learning environment. Parent-teacher conferences are used instead of grades to communicate the child's progress, and children participate in setting goals and evaluating their own performance and results.
Peninsula's educational process challenges teachers and parents as much as students. Both individuality and social consciousness are stressed. These values are woven into the entire fabric of communication and activity within the school. Teachers are challenged to create an environment in which children have freedom to make choices affecting every aspect of their education; parents are challenged to recognize their children as individuals with their own clearly expressed interests, opinions, and capabilities. Children grow in confidence, responsibility, and independence, and in the genuine love of learning.
Links:
- Peninsula School - http://www.peninsulaschool.org/index.htm
- About Peninsula School - http://www.peninsulaschool.org/abouttheschool.htm
- Comparative Research on Peninsula Alumni: Research Results - http://www.peninsulaschool.org/ComparativeStudyPeninsula.pdf
Tags for this entry:
creativity,
holistic education,
social emotional learning,
love of learning
Related Resources:
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (TED talk)