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Mission

Cold Spring School challenges children to become self-reliant, curious, and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

What does Progressive Education at Cold Spring look like?

• Students construct their own learning. 
• Teachers facilitate skill-development within the context of the child's world and inquiry.
• Expectations are co-created and agreed upon.
• Children are taught every type of skill and value that is required in order for them to create and experience belonging.
   

"The child's own instincts and powers furnish the material and give the starting-point for all education."
- John Dewey (My Pedagogic Creed, 1987)