In response to WA State public health COVID-19 protocol, Vashon Green School has transformed the 7-acre campus to be an entirely outdoor youth development program.  Participants will be organized into three small groups of 9 or fewer youth per mentor.  The campus will be divided into three separate zones. Each group will have its own separate area with covered, open-work spaces and handwashing stations. Children will be required to wear cloth face coverings and to maintain physical distance.  Daily temperature taking at the beginning of each day, documenting and graphing health data, regular hand-washing, responsibility for one’s own gear and personal supplies will not only be part of our daily practices but they will be integrated into a public health curriculum.

As a program, Vashon Green School continues to provide extended academic learning, Spanish fusion, individual tutoring sessions and outdoor education. VGS is committed to creating experiences that help youth develop social, emotional, physical, and cognitive abilities, including the specific ways that relate to living and learning through a pandemic. 

A recent podcast by Michael Meade resonates with the current VGS philosophy.  In it he asks, “How can we reimagine education in the midst of the pandemic?  …Something is trying to awaken in us [a] reimagining [of] what education is and what it is for.  If the world is going to continue to be so uncertain and so full of radical change, then the education of students who have to live and find ways to prosper in that world have to change as well.”  —Living Myth, Michael Meade, August 5, Episode 187.

Vashon Green School is currently full.  For information about the wait list for youth ages 5-12, please email us: vashongreenschool@gmail.com