COMMUNITY- LED LEARNING
Deciding Together. Learning Together. Growing Together.
LIFE SKILLS
Life Skill achievements help us to become well rounded contributors to our community. UES helps communities organically uncover and refine life skills through community-directed projects such as gardening, sustainability, food preparation, cleaning, fire building and safety, handwork, building/making, social and emotional skills, music + instruments, bushcraft, first aid, foraging, networking, and the list goes on and on and on!
ALL AGES
We learn best through adequate skill representation. Accessing natural demonstrations from those more refined, less refined, and everything in between ensures true learning. We advocate for a fully mixed-age learning and decision-making experience.
OUTDOORS
Being outside has innumerable benefits. We get to experience and observe the changing seasons and biodiversity. We receive grounding and calming effects. We increase our immune system functioning as we breathe clean air and absorb adequate vitamin D. It is in the outdoors that we have access to the most inspiring classroom there is.