Raintree School

Raintree School is Missouri's first Reggio Emilia inspired Forest School. There's a certain ecosystem of thought that Raintree students operate within. Amidst this thought ecosystem we are each and collaboratively creative, adaptive, permeable, dynamic, systemic, and self-correcting.

Guided by the Reg­gio approach, Rain­tree stu­dents expe­ri­ence our trans­for­ma­tional project-based cur­ricu­lum that is hands-on, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary, requires team­work, and encour­ages risk-taking. Our model spurs chil­dren to go out and apply what they’ve learned to prob­lems that they’ve never seen before with parts that they’ve never used before. It is truly a test of mind and character.​

Shouldn’t every stu­dent in every school be doing exactly that – mak­ing things from what they learn and using the things they make? It speaks vol­umes about the qual­ity and rel­e­vance of the edu­ca­tion being offered if the stu­dents are also enthu­si­as­tic, inno­v­a­tive, and proac­tive mem­bers of their community.