Tara Redwood School

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Tara Redwood School

Nestled in 98 acres of sunny, serene redwood forest adjacent to Nisene Marks State Park, Tara Redwood School provides an unparalleled learning environment of peace and beauty.

Our values-based program is geared toward empowering children to make a positive difference in the world.

Established in 1996, the school's purpose has been to educate the whole child. Not only do we strive to help children come to know the joy of learning, we also provide a foundation for the emotional and inner development of each child through our Creating Compassionate Cultures (CCC) curriculum.

CCC seeks to develop the whole person; as a result, it has the following goals:

• To foster the qualities of loving kindness, compassion, and universal responsibility.

• To cultivate respectful behavior toward all living beings.

• To present a balanced integrated program of learning activities and experiences that addresses the physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual domains of the person.

• To transmit the universal elements of wisdom from different cultures and traditions through an understanding of both the material (external) and spiritual (internal) aspects of reality.

• To develop ethical behavior based on an understanding of the interrelatedness of all phenomena.

• To develop an understanding of:

The nature and functioning of the mind and its projections.

The nature and source of emotions and how to work with them.