Welcome to Desert Star - A Tuition FREE, Waldorf
- Inspired Elementary Charter School in Cornville, Arizona
(near Sedona and Cottonwood)
Desert
Star Community School offers a Waldorf-Inspired curriculum,
enhanced by Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple
Intelligences. The teaching methods meet the needs of
the whole child by engaging the child on many levels:
cognitive, physical, social, emotional as well as the
creative-imaginative. Desert Star’s educational
program places a special emphasis on academic learning,
sustainable environmental stewardship and provides a variety
of multicultural experiences.
The
school has designed a program to meet Arizona state educational
standards through an innovative approach that is child-centered,
meaningful and imaginative. As a progressive Waldorf methods
school Desert Star cultivates a spirit of openness and
flexibility based in the educational philosophies of Rudolf
Steiner.
The
mission of Desert Star Community School is to provide an
education that considers the needs of the whole child, develops
the full diversity of human intelligence within each individual,
and instills a life-long love of learning. Our purpose is
to inspire and empower students to reach their full academic
and creative potential so they may lead fulfilling, purposeful
lives and make a positive contribution to the multi-cultural
society and world community in which they live.
Desert Star provides a nurturing
learning community that honors and respects the wonder
of childhood. In this age of pervasive media and technological
influences Desert Star offers a healthy, balanced alternative
that draws upon both age-old traditions and cutting edge
research to determine how to best teach children and meet
their needs.
The
Waldorf approach of “head, heart and hands”
helps children to integrate and retain what they learn
through experiential, multi-sensory and emotionally engaged
learning experiences. Our educational methods and curriculum
are designed to invigorate the mind intellectually, engage
the heart through experiences with creativity, beauty
and wonder and to work actively with the hands and body
throughout the day.
Gardner
recognized that each child possesses a unique blend of
intelligences, i.e.: linguistic, logical-mathematical,
musical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, and
intrapersonal. Beyond just recognizing a child as a visual,
auditory or kinesthetic learner, Desert Star’s approach
focuses on “bringing forth” the student’s
full potential in each area of intelligence.
Our
goal is to provide a learning environment in which children
thrive and develop into balanced, creative, confident
and compassionate individuals who love learning and have
a great deal to contribute to our society and the planet.
Desert
Star Welcomes Your Support
Desert
Star Community School invites you to become a part of
the establishment of a truly remarkable public charter
school. Please partner with us in helping to create an
exciting and innovative school that brings instruction
alive in the classroom and promotes a life-long love of
learning.
Support Us
State
Tax Credit
Donations
Volunteer
Desert
Star Community School is a 501(c) (3) tax-exempt, non-profit
organization. All contributions are tax-deductible.
Desert Star Community School serves
the following communities
in
the Verde Valley:
Cornville
Sedona
Cottonwood
Jerome
Village of Oak Creek
Camp Verde
Rimrock