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Oak and Orca Bioregional School, Victoria, B.C.
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Oak and Orca is an affordable independent elementary school in
Victoria, British Columbia. Our mission is to provide educational
opportunities that empower children to create fundamental social change
towards more fulfilling and ecologically sustainable communities. To
this end, we have chosen a teaching approach that models bioregional
philosophies and provides freedom of expression and choice to students.
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Oak and Orca Bioregional School is a certified elementary school. Through
self directed learning and experiencial education in multi-aged classes,
students learn all the required subjects based on their interests. As
an ungraded school, students are able to learn at their own pace, based
on what they already know and what they are ready to learn. Students are
neither held back from learning challenging curriculum nor pushed ahead
before a complete understanding has been acheived. Small classes and many
adults in the classroom allow students to learn independently in a
child-directed manner with plenty of help and attention.
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Oak and Orca uses a focus of bioregional education within which all
subject areas are taught. The following components of bioregionalism
are integrated into the bioregional curriculum and the framework of
the Oak and Orca experience: study of the local bioregion, experiencial
learning, consensus decision making, participatory democracy, ecological
education, field work, nature interpretation, nature awareness, and
deep ecology.
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<font size='2'><i><center>Oak and Orca is a BC gov't certified independent elementary school.</center></i></font>
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<p><font size='-2'><b>About the school:</b>
<br><a href='http://oakandorca.ca'>Oak and Orca Bioregional School</a>
<br><a href='http://oakandorca.ca/about/bioregionalism/'>What is Bioregional Education?</a>
<p><b>Articles:</b>
<br><a href='cycling_sch_bus.html'>Cycle Therapy</a>
<br><a href='http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/files/Archives_WSS/ws114.htm#Curriculum%20Sustainability'>Watershed Sentinel</a>
<p><b>Programs:</b>
<br>Affordable Certified Elementary School
<br>Summer Nature Interpretation Day Camps
<p><b>E-mail:</b>
<br>yj383@victoria.tc.ca
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