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About our school
Woods Learning Center is a child-centered school that offers age-appropriate education for each student. The school poses high expectations, and serves students through an active, hands-on approach to learning. Students attend multi-age classrooms with team teachers.
Woods also is a member of the League of Small Democratic Schools and is administered by teachers and staff.
Our staff
Ten classroom teachers and five specialists serve students. All teachers are highly qualified, and half have master’s degrees. Students also have access to a tutor, a part-time counselor, social worker, speech therapist, diagnostician and nurse.
Our curriculum
Students at Woods learn through project-based, themed lessons. Within the year’s theme, students continue to use Investigations and Connected Math for problem-solving approaches to mathematics concepts. Students participate in novel groups and work on reading skills through their project research and problem-solving activities. All students also use the 6+1 Traits to Writing.
Science is taught through inquiry methods and hands-on experiences. Social studies lessons are based on projects and events.
The school also has an enrichment facilitator to provide extra challenges for students.
Special education students are served through inclusion and small-group models.
All students also have regular art, PE and music classes, and older students have the choice of band and orchestra.
Our activities
Classes begin every day at 8:10 a.m. for all ages. Kindergarten through sixth-grade classes end at 12:15 p.m. on Fridays, with the Rec Center available for students on Friday afternoons.
Students may participate in robotics, drama class, jazz club, early bird reading and, for fifth- through eighth-graders, after-school sports.
Annual events also include the fall fair, luau bingo, carnival, international study day, field day, a middle school day trip, a middle school spring trip, a middle school Quebec trip, fourth- and fifth-grade Healthy Me Day, a fourth- and fifth-grade Cody/Thermopolis trip and a fifth- and sixth-grade Washington, D.C., trip every other year.
Our families
Woods families are required to spend 20 hours a year volunteering at the school.
Families also are encouraged to join the parent-teacher cooperative.
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