Cocoon Montessori Preschool offers a nurturing space where learning happens naturally through exploration and discovery. With English instruction, our AMI-certified teachers guide each child, fostering independence, curiosity, and a love for learning.

Cocoon Montessori Preschool

Green Shoots is an inspirational learning community that fosters happy, mindful and creative thinkers committed to the sustainable development of our world.

We integrate the importance of a values-led life into every aspect of a child’s learning journey, from the classroom to the dinner table, the sports field to the journey home.

We recognise the importance of preparing children for the exams that some higher education systems still prioritise, but we also innovate to develop the broader educational experiences that more progressive universities and professions are looking for. Primary-aged children are taught to question, analyse and discuss concepts beyond the written curriculum, and by the time they reach the secondary years, students are exposed to in-house courses that consider broad concepts like sustainable living and equity, as well as the Green Shoots Global Citizenship Certificate.

To support the growth of tomorrow’s leaders we combine two key ingredients:

A holistic education, to encourage out-of-the-box thinking, and the ability to connect disparate thoughts and ideas, and 
A holistic approach to personal development, to build the emotional resilience, self-confidence, and humility that balance an enquiring mind.  

The Green Shoots Extra Curricular Activities (ECA) runs from 3.40 to 4.40pm each day after school and is also open to children who are not Green Shoots students. Activities have included:

Sporting Activities: Senior Sports Hangout, Football, Aikido, Gymnastics 
The Arts: Choir, Drama, Public Speaking, Dance
Scientific and Technical: Mad Scientists, Tinkerlab
Games and Crafting: Chess, Minecraft, Sewing, Master Chef, 
Other activities: Sprouts (the Green Shoots answer to Scouts), Language Clubs in French and Vietnamese, Mandarin and Sign Language

For a short term option  Green Shoots runs a summer school programme for one month every summer, beginning shortly after the end of term (see school calendar for details). It is offered to children from two to twelve years old.

Each week offers a range of fun, themed activities that are suited to the age and interests of children on the programme. Games, group activities, science experiments, treasure hunts, and artistic projects build confidence and expand friendships.

Green Shoots International School

ISLA Academy is a unique offering to the private, international schools of the Dominican Republic. Located in Cabarete and Las Terrenas, on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, ISLA Academy offers pre-school through high school, with a high-quality, rigorous, and personalized curriculum taught primarily in English.  The ISLA Academy team is comprised of internationally certified, experienced teachers from all over the world.
*Contact isla.accounts@islaacademy.com if you are considering enrolling for less than a semester

ISLA Academy

River House is lucky to be situated in beautiful South Goa and we make good use of our immediate surroundings, Goa and the rest of India to support our curriculum and provide students with an understanding of their host country and culture. 
Minimum 8 weeks (or longer) enrollment period

RIver House Academy

Escuela Caracol is a Waldorf  school on the shores of Lake Atitlán with an inspiring view of three volcanoes.

San Marcos la Laguan is a small pueblo of about 3.000 people located in the western highlands of Guatemala – a region predominantly inhabited by indigenous Maya for thousands of years.

Escuela Caracol seeks to offer a solution to the dilemma of education for both indigenous and international families around Lake Atitlán. Our holistic mode of learning promotes the development of well-rounded and freethinking individuals who possess creative capacities useful in all realms of life.

Escuela Caracol

Our childcare center focuses on meaningful learning experiences where children feel safe and loved. Our aim responds to the child holistic view as carefully fosters and protects the physical, emotional, social and spiritual nature of each child.
The Waldorf Steiner pedagogy is one of the largest and fastest independent education movements in the world.
What makes us unique:
• Gentle and calming rhythms
• Warm home-like environment
• An unhurried approach to childhood
• Organic and delicious meals

Waldorf Steiner School

Intercultural and Academic Alternative School in Lombok, Indonesia for young explorers ages 3-11.

We are a fully certified, legal school that empowers students to lead their learning through a thematic, inquiry-based curriculum that nurtures curiosity, personal growth, and academic excellence, enriched by community expertise and global standards.

Wonder Intercultural School Lombok

Lerntree is based in the historic market town of Oakham and the picturesque surroundings of Rutland, with SSSI woodlands, Rutland Water Nature Reserve, and rich agricultural lands steeped in history.
Lerntree runs one and a half days a week, 33 weeks a year.  
Open to ages 7 - 14 years.

Lerntree

Árbol de Vida opened its doors in August 2012, continuing the first Waldorf project founded in 1998 in historic San Miguel de Allende, in the heart of Mexico.

Our curricular design accompanies each girl and boy during childhood and adolescence in a balanced, humanistic and artistic way to help them reach their best individual potential which allows them to draw purposes for their lives.

Based on a comprehensive understanding of human development, Waldorf offers boys and girls of all ages the opportunity to grow through a stimulating, challenging, and comprehensive academic program.

Arbol de Vida

Life Project Education is a grassroots holistic education center nestled in an intimate nature-rich community in the area of Bahia Ballena, Costa Rica.

​Our unique programs offer opportunities for children, families, and teachers to explore the interconnected layers of their humanity that are traditionally undermined in modern systems. In addition to nurturing critical intellect, Life Project visitors are equally exposed to experiences that ignite emotional, social, artistic, moral, psychological, physical, aesthetic, creative, and intuitive layers of development.

​And we do most of it outdoors, surrounded by the pristine energy of the rain forest, in the “happiest country on the planet.” (happy planet index) Pura Vida!

​Supported by the most cutting-edge research in the realms of quantum physics and Holistic Learning Theory, we educate through an energetic lens, treating our students as sovereign, non-standard beings. The mechanical worldview that predominates current constructs of learning, teaching, healing, and living is not only incomplete, it is intuitively-obsolete.

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Life Project Education

Nestled beneath the trees, with outdoor learning environments and organic canvas bell tents, Foresta Rincón Multidisciplinary Center is a place of wonder, creativity, learning and adventure.

Step onto our school campus and you’ll hear the sounds of children laughing, actively engaged in learning and play as they explore their environment with natural curiosity. Our school promotes students’ outdoor activities to provide valuable skills relevant to leading a healthy and active lifestyle, while developing social skills.

Foresta Rincón Multidisciplinary Center

Paths is an independent learning space  for children between 5 and 14 years of age.
We support the idea that  parents and children have the right to freely choose  the place and method of  learning and therefore we are independent from the standards and programs of the Ministry of Education and culture.
The school is conducted in Bulgarian.  There are some teachers and students who speak English.

Cocoon Montessori Preschool

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Green Shoots International School

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ISLA Academy

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RIver House Academy

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Escuela Caracol

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Waldorf Steiner School

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Wonder Intercultural School Lombok

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Lerntree

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Arbol de Vida

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Life Project Education

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Foresta Rincón Multidisciplinary Center

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Paths/Pateki

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