Blue School - A Lab School

The concept of a Lab School is embedded in the progressive education work of philosophers John Dewey and Francis Parker. The original Lab School strove to bring together experiential and research-based learning, integrating academics with creative problem-solving. Innovation, teacher training, cultural development, and collaboration with families and the larger community are hallmarks of Lab School settings.

Blue School brings the concept of the Lab School into the 21st century through its Mission, Values, and Vision. Here the elements of questioning, collecting, organizing and reflecting act to integrate benchmarks as part and parcel of lived experience. As a place of culture, Blue School is a destination for learning as well as a laboratory or base camp for cultivating culture.  Our teachers and students build upon opportunities for learning in relationship to the world that surrounds it.

For families who have chosen Blue School, the inquiry and experiential based learning that helps realize the values and academic objectives requires adults and children to be open to experiment, to rediscover what collaboration means in our culture, and to work together with diverse points of view.

By connecting many ways of working with content areas, skills, and social and emotional processes, Blue School aims to create prepared, capable and flexible learners who are ready for all the possibilities that await them. Parents and teachers become role models to all children in Blue School when they actively participate, model inquiry and problem-solving, communicate and negotiate, become involved in the life and initiatives of the school and share their learning.