Contemplative Progressive Model
At Blue Mountain School, we practice a Contemplative Progressive model.
Contemplative Education – Blue Mountain School helps students develop their awareness, concentration, and insight. We strive to use processes that illuminate the innate wisdom of human beings and cultivate a growing sense of peace and wonderment in everyday life.
We practice:
Progressive Education – Blue Mountain School promotes Social-Emotional Learning and critical thinking through experiential activities and creative expression in a collaborative, project-based curriculum.
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How do the Contemplative and Progressive models work together? Combined, these practices provide a holistic approach to education that nurtures the mind and the heart, the rational and the creative, the physical and the metaphysical; together, the Contemplative and Progressive models honor the whole child.
We practice:
- The exploration of Wisdom Traditions near and far as a means to understand the spirit
- Poetry and storytelling as a means to explore the human condition
- Movement arts as a means to explore and enhance one’s sense of physical connectedness and awareness
- Silence and meditation as a means for reflection and inner awareness
- Self-reflection and self-mastery techniques as a means to act with intention and thoughtfulness
Progressive Education – Blue Mountain School promotes Social-Emotional Learning and critical thinking through experiential activities and creative expression in a collaborative, project-based curriculum.
We practice:
- The development of intrinsic values over extrinsic punishment-reward systems
- Teacher-Student collaboration in the learning process; ‘doing with’ instead of ‘doing to’
- Social-Emotional Learning to meet a child’s social, emotional, and intellectual needs
- A Project-Based curriculum with subjects overlapping, as they often
- Creative expression and reflection as a tool to find meaning and
How do the Contemplative and Progressive models work together? Combined, these practices provide a holistic approach to education that nurtures the mind and the heart, the rational and the creative, the physical and the metaphysical; together, the Contemplative and Progressive models honor the whole child.
