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 Welcome
to Desert Star Community School - serving families in Sedona,
Cottonwood, Cornville, Camp Verde, and the entire Verde
Valley!
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 experiential,
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.
Our
Mission Statement
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.
Why
Choose Desert Star?
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 Waldolf 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.
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