Dear Friends of the Cloud Forest School,

It is difficult to address such a wide audience, coming to visit our website from around the world! Perhaps you are here because you are interested in a teaching position, and you would like to know more about our community. One might visit as an educator, looking for an international connection for their school or study abroad opportunities. Others could be interested in volunteer and intern opportunities – and you would like to find out how to apply. You might also be here because you wish to support the school, through our plant-a-tree program, in buying a poster, or with a tax-deductible donation through our 501(c)3 organization in Sewanee, TN. Or, likely, you might be a friend of the school, having worked here, visited, or know students and you would like to know what we are up to (or learn more about our history). Well, whoever you are, you have come to the right place, welcome!

At our very heart, we are an elementary and high school set in the beautiful cloud forest region in Monteverde, Costa Rica, whose charge is simple and clear: 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. At the same time, we have grown dramatically since our humble beginning in the early 1990’s, and with 205 local students we are also a conservation organization, an area of active reforestation, an international learning center for new and aspiring teachers with a self-sustaining volunteer and intern program…the list goes on. As our school continues to grow and change as our needs and interests dictate – we consistently return to the notion that we are here to serve as many of the local children as possible, providing a quality bilingual education.

My hope is that, as we continue to update and tweak our website, you can find what you need here. If not, please feel free to contact me at director@cloudforestschool.org with any questions. Again, thank you for visiting, and I hope you enjoy a little view into our home.

Warm Regards,

Scott Timm
Director, Cloud Forest School/Centro de Educacion Creativa