Our Mission

Our founders were called to proclaim the gifts and worth of children. In response to this call, it is the mission of The Lab School, Inc. to provide a Ministry of nurture and care with young children and their families, to shape and model this Ministry, and to equip individuals to engage with young children in this way. The setting for this Ministry is The Lab School, Inc.

Statement on Peace and Justice

We believe that the values of peace and justice should be nurtured in young children. These concepts and skills are essential for the nurturing of peacemakers and advocates for justice and are the framework for the development of the curriculum and for the formation of policies concerning discipline, conflict, toys and guns. We believe that young children need a strong foundation upon which to build lives committed to peace and justice. We believe this foundation includes promoting self esteem, fostering a variety of diverse social relationships, and guiding children toward independence and self discipline. We are committed to a partnership with parents to assist them in the task of parenting peacefully.

Statement of Values and Beliefs

We believe that each person, regardless of race, religion, gender or abilities, is a child of God – unique and special to God, uniquely gifted with talents and abilities and worthy of love and respect. We have been entrusted with a ministry which offers hope, healing, and love.

As a laboratory school, we are committed to model excellent education and care for young children, and to create opportunities within such modeling for interpretation, practice, demonstration, and research.

We affirm that parents are the primary educators and caregivers of their children. We are committed to partnership with parents in nurturing their children as whole persons who are joyful, life giving, and responsible members of the community.

We affirm that children are worthy, whole human beings who minister to each other and to adults. We celebrate their sense of wonder and discovery, their playfulness, their ability to become fully absorbed in activities and in relationships and the courage which they demonstrate as they work to expand their world.

As an educational community, we seek to provide a context of life and learning in which children are nurtured in their mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual growth. We strive to create an environment filled with opportunities for learning in many ways, but especially in caring for and about others, and in knowing how to put that caring into practice to create an atmosphere resembling an extended but loving family where learning and caring become a way of life.