Mission
Meeting the diverse needs of each student through creative exploration of the natural world.
Vision
We foster a learning environment where children are creatively engaged in their natural surroundings, have the opportunity to learn and grow through purposeful, hands-on, experiential play.
We believe that children learn best when they are engaged in their environment through play and discovery. Young children are instinctively motivated and curious when they play. MSCC provides children with opportunities to explore the world they live in through music, art, science, the environment and community. Decision making, perspective, and emotional awareness are integral to each child’s experience and the foundation of our curriculum. Teachers observe, document, and respond to children’s curiosities to cultivate learning that is emergent and child-led. MSCC also follows a seasonal flow of virtues that inform social-emotional engagement and create a thread between all classrooms.
View our Seasonal flow (also available in Spanish).
Tuition Assistance
Access the scholarship application here or find more information about tuition assistance vis state subsidy here. Mountain Sprouts has made it a priority to ensure some level of tuition assistance to all families in need of financial support whether through the state subsidy program or the scholarship program.
At Mountain Sprouts, we support our students as they build:
A Curious Mind
Learning is student-directed; guided by curiosity and interest. Teachers work as researchers alongside students, carefully listening to their interests, assisting in defining their questions as a place to begin investigations and express their knowledge. Teachers provoke, co-construct, stimulate new thinking, and foster collaboration.
A Strong Spirit
At Mountain Sprouts, we encourage students to take risks, to build resilience, to be strong leaders, and self-advocates. Through exploration of nature, friendships, challenges, and experimenting with how the world works, we find our confidence and new strengths.
A Growing Body
Children learn best through play and when they have the freedom to use their whole bodies. We provide an abundance of nature-based opportunities during which children challenge their physical abilities, express themselves, build healthy habits, discover, practice, and develop a relationship with the natural world. We honor active learning.
A Caring Heart
At Mountain Sprouts we have three simple rules: Be Kind, Be Safe, and Be a Team. From day one, our students learn that these apply to their relationship with themselves, with others and with the Earth. Empathy and compassion are core components of the Mountain Sprouts philosophy.
The trail beneath our feet is the floor, the forest the walls, and the sky our ceiling. Nature is our classroom and collectively our home. We learn to care for our world, the inhabitants that we share it with, and each other.
A connection to the land
Where we are has an immense impact on who we are. Mountain Sprouts programs are located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, the ancestral homelands of the šnp̍əšqʷáw̉šəxʷ (p'squosa or Wenatchi) people. We explore the trails and forests of Sunitsch Canyon (Evergreen Program) and the banks of the Wenatchee River (Willow Program). We commit to teaching children to make deep connections to the land and to honor the Earth through stewardship. We deepen our connection to the land by learning from present-day Indigenous communities through community partnerships and resources (WA Since Time Immemorial curriculum for ex.) along with amplifying and learning about Indigenous heroes, artists, writers and musicians all year long.