People are reimagining education
from the ground up.
Watershed Schoolhouse is a full-time microschool that integrates academics, nature connection, justice & equity, and a cultivated inner life.
Watershed Schoolhouse is based in the current and ancestral homelands of the Mechoopda (Chico, California).
WATERSHED BENEFITS
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Nature as Teacher
Watershed Schoolhouse is hosted on a beautiful 43-acre campus with a year round creek and a simple schoolhouse just a few minutes outside of Chico.
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Integrated Learning
Real learning goes beyond tests and piece-meal experiences; it engages whole humans through coherent projects, rooted in community.
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Small Cohort Size
Small by design, the small, multi-age cohort allows families, teachers, and students alike to grow together and deepen their relationships over time.
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Screen-free Environment
The screen-free environment allows for direct experience—rather than mere information—as the foundation for learning.
“In addition to my child’s stellar academic performance, I have watched my child go from self-conscious and comparative to confident, inclusive and exploratory.”
— Santy, Watershed Parent
Join our founding cohort.
Be part of something extraordinary from the beginning. Watershed Schoolhouse is now enrolling children from grades K-4* in the small-scale, inaugural cohort.
*Age exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis.
Four Literacies
Imagine if the goal of education was not one kind of literacy, but four.
Watershed Schoolhouse grounds this imagination through integrating our four literacies into the entire curriculum. We want kids to read, write, and think critically, but we also want them to know themselves, their community, and the world around them. We want them to cultivate wellness, resilience, and purpose.
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Academic Literacy
Watershed Schoolhouse is hosted on a beautiful 43-acre campus with a year round creek and a simple schoolhouse just a few minutes outside of Chico.
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Ecological Literacy
Real learning goes beyond tests and piece-meal experiences; it engages whole humans through coherent projects, rooted in community.
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Communal Literacy
Small by design, the small, multi-age cohort allows families, teachers, and students alike to grow together and deepen their relationships over time.
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Inner Literacy
The screen-free environment allows for direct experience—rather than mere information—as the foundation for learning.