Key Programmatic Features
- Grades 1-8
- Inclusive school
- Supportive environment for neurodiverse & twice-exceptional students
- Individualized learning
- Focus on social and emotional development
- Learning in nature and at the historic Milheim House
- Small class sizes & small student to teacher ratios
- Multi-age classrooms
- STEM + Art/Design curriculum
- Real-world learning
- Forest School
- Microschool
- Robotics with the Colorado School of Mines
We envision an inclusive community where all students have individualized learning plans tailored to their specific needs and aptitudes.
Mission and Vision Statements
Worldmind envisions an inclusive community where we celebrate our differences in safe, natural environments, and ignite a greater love and appreciation for ourselves, learning, and the world.
We reunite children with the natural world by creating mindful, interest-based outdoor experiences which spark engagement, development, awareness, and community through transformative experiential education. We intentionally link our students’ understanding of bio and social diversity, so they evolve into compassionate, self-actualized members of our local and global communities.
Our Curriculum
Real-World Learning
Worldmind incorporates an even balance of head (academic achievement), heart (character-building and well-being), and hand (problem-solving, creating, and idea development). This is accomplished through a carefully crafted curriculum that incorporates Real-World Learning. Real-World Learning lends itself to place-based and project-based approaches to pedagogy.
Real-World Learning also incorporates civic education. Through this innovative type of education, teachers can encourage students to see not only their home and school, but also the city and surrounding areas in which they are located, as a real world classroom. Teachers will assign projects that help students to map and engage with real world issues and initiatives in the community. This will be accomplished through multiple field trips throughout the school year. Field trips bring people together in ways that go beyond traditional classroom experiences.
STEM
STEM an interdisciplinary and applied approach to teaching four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Worldmind works with Mathletes & Bookworms to create a robust STEM curriculum that integrates our real-world learning model. Our math curriculum comes from EngageNY; these modules are marked by in-depth focus on fewer topics.
“The United States has developed as a global leader, in large part, through the genius and hard work of its scientists, engineers, and innovators. In a world that’s becoming increasingly complex, where success is driven not only by what you know but by what you can do with what you know, it’s more important than ever for our youth to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to solve tough problems, gather and evaluate evidence, and make sense of information. These are the types of skills that students learn by studying science, technology, engineering, and math—subjects collectively known as STEM.”
– The U.S. Department of Education
Literacy
Worldmind uses the Orton-Gillingham literacy curriculum which helps teach reading more effectively. Orton-Gillingham allows children to break down how and why letters and words sound the way they do. Using multiple senses, children can better understand the rules of the English language. This is effective in the classroom because it allows educators to teach children in the way that each individual child learns best.
Supplemental Programs
Mind/Body Connection
Worldmind believes that learning about your mind and body and the connection between them is an important part of school. Students at each grade level participate in a mind/body connection class once a week. This program also incorporates outdoor recreation, yoga and mindfulness, rock climbing, bike riding, fitness, and nutrition.
Robotics and Coding
All Worldmind Prep students participate in our robotics and coding lessons that were created with the Colorado School of Mines. Megan Patterson continues to work with Mines students and staff to create more content for lessons.
Forest School
Forest School is a unique learning philosophy that offers people of all ages the opportunity to learn personal, social, technical, academic and environmental skills in a natural environment. This part of our curriculum combines environmental education with forest school skills which include: fire skills (building, lighting, maintaining, cooking, putting out, and leave no trace), forest tools (using a variety of different tools to create with wood), nature art and design, and shelter building.
Two Worldmind teachers trained in the UK Forest School model lead this programming for our Worldmind Prep students in one 2-hour session per week.
Art/Design
Art and design are transformational problem-solving processes that help cultivate innovation and leadership. Our art and design curriculum draws from engineering and design concepts, combined with methods used in the arts, social sciences, and business. Art and design incorporated with a STEM curriculum set in the outdoors will elevate students’ thinking to new levels, and help them reach new academic and personal heights so that they emerge with a solid foundation for a happy, healthy, successful life.
Part of our art + design curriculum is in partnership with The Craftsman & Apprentice, a local heritage-inspired craft workshop & retail space in Denver’s City Park West.
Enrollment
Worldmind Preparatory School
1st – 8th Grade
Monday – Friday
8:25am – 3:30pm
Enrollment Process
- Call our office to see if your family would be a good fit for Worldmind: 303.974.5585
- Fill out an online enrollment application here. There is a $75 application fee.
- Schedule a tour and parent interview here.
- Set up a trial day. If the trial day is a success, a contract will be set.
- Sign contract.
- Pay a non-refundable deposit of $1,000. This deposit will be applied to the tuition balance.
Tuition
- Application Fee – $75
- Worldmind Prep Year Tuition – $17,050
- Tuition Deposit – $1,000
We offer the following tuition payment plans:
One Payment – The tuition deposit is deducted from the total tuition and the balance is due August 5th, or on the first day of the month in which the student begins attending Worldmind, at a prorated rate. Payment methods include credit card with a 3% transaction fee, ACH transfer or check with no transaction fees.
Two Payments – The tuition deposit is deducted from the total tuition and the balance is divided into two equal payments due August 5th, and November 5th, or beginning on the first day of the month in which the student begins attending Worldmind and on the first day of a subsequent month to be determined by Worldmind. Payment methods include credit card with a 3% transaction fee, ACH transfer or check with no transaction fees.
Ten Payments – The tuition deposit is deducted from the total tuition, a service charge of $10 per month is added, and the balance is divided into ten equal payments, or beginning on the first day of the month in which the student begins attending Worldmind. Tuition payments are due the first day of every month, starting August 1, 2022, and ending May 1, 2023.
Deposits – A non-refundable deposit of $1,000 per student is due upon acceptance into the school. This deposit will be applied to the tuition balance.
