Our Philosophy
Cedarwood Academy is a school committed to constructing an educational experience for children that values each as a community member and whole person and nurtures their growth.
Our educational goal at Cedarwood is to maintain a balance between the grade-level academics of traditional schooling, and progressive methods such as project-based learning, mixed-age community building, and exploring the natural world. Our methods recognize developmental readiness and allows each child to progress at their own individual pace. We also build into our curriculum enrichment activities such as foreign language, music, art and field trips.
At Cedarwood we believe being outdoors is not only therapeutic, but is important for personal intellectual, social, and emotional development. Our children work, play, and discover in our outdoor classrooms and forest playground. We recognize the value of unstructured, mixed-age play for our children, and the critical role it plays in healthy development. Accordingly, unstructured play is interwoven with structured learning time on a daily basis.
Our educational goal at Cedarwood is to maintain a balance between the grade-level academics of traditional schooling, and progressive methods such as project-based learning, mixed-age community building, and exploring the natural world. Our methods recognize developmental readiness and allows each child to progress at their own individual pace. We also build into our curriculum enrichment activities such as foreign language, music, art and field trips.
At Cedarwood we believe being outdoors is not only therapeutic, but is important for personal intellectual, social, and emotional development. Our children work, play, and discover in our outdoor classrooms and forest playground. We recognize the value of unstructured, mixed-age play for our children, and the critical role it plays in healthy development. Accordingly, unstructured play is interwoven with structured learning time on a daily basis.