Caring for Our World

	Outdoor Education
	Place Based Education
	Voyage to the Sea
	Farm School

Our mission in part, states:

“We envision communities working together to care for, appreciate, and protect the earth and universe we inhabit.”

and

“The educational experience should reveal to all students their unique qualities and capabilities and their responsibility to put their uniqueness at the service of society and the earth.”

We use these elements of our mission as a lens for evaluating and enhancing our programs, processes, and practices as they related to environmental sustainability and to the integrated teaching of environmental stewardship.

Children have an inherent love of nature, of animals, and of being outdoors; at Touchstone, we honor this love within children by designing our program and experiences to build upon and enhance their knowledge of and sense of responsibility for the natural world. It begins with things as simple as an hour of recess time outdoors every day and grows into projects that promote local activism and extended camping trips that give students the opportunity to learn as much about themselves as they do about the world around them.