Vision and Mission

Vision
Our vision is a sustainable future for the Earth through educating individuals to love, respect and protect the natural environment, to strive for justice and peace as well as academic excellence and to work towards conserving biodiversity and enriching community life.

Mission
Our mission is to nurture generations of ecologically aware, academically well-rounded bilingual individuals. We will work to provide students with the knowledge, values and skills needed to make environmentally and socially conscious decisions on a local, national and global scale.

Objectives of the CFS

• To discover and address the intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual needs of each child in order to stimulate their creativity, natural love for learning, and sense of wonder about the world around them.

• To provide a strong interdisciplinary curriculum that incorporates environmental education in every way possible.

• To inspire and educate students to be caring, develop a strong sense of community and take an active interest in conservation and sustainability with a desire to contribute from local to global levels.

Our commitment is to:

• Provide well qualified staff and volunteers who model mutual respect and have the ability and desire to involve students in the maintenance of a rich and nurturing learning experience.

• Incorporate progressive teaching methodology using programs, techniques and materials that promote child centered learning.

• Remain flexible, keeping class-size small with each child learning at his/her own pace and in his/her own manner. Teachers will select materials and structure learning activities that support and extend students´ active, hands on learning.

• Develop students proficiency in English and Spanish, giving them experiences that help them to understand other cultures and gain a perspective of local and global interdependence.

• Ensure that the fully integrated environmental education curriculum focuses on major ecological concepts and connects these processes to the daily lives of the students and their community.

• Provide a holistic program which includes – the arts, physical education and vocational studies.

• Involve student sin all aspects of caring the CEC property engaging them in the decision making and practice of land stewardship through study, work, play, reflection and relaxation.

• Ensure that the CECD works against discrimination in terms of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political preference, economic status or national, ethnic or social origin.

• Raise funds to guarantee the availability of scholarships and the optimal operation of the school as a non-profit organization.

• Provide educational opportunities for as many children and youth as possible while still maintaining the CFS mission and objectives.

• Share our resources and offer activities and workshops with other schools and organizations, in order to promote the mission of our school.