Home Base Learning Center is a nature-based school for children ages 5-12, located within the Blue Hills Reservation of Massachusetts. Guided by Positive Youth Development, Informed and Compassionate Citizenship, and Earth Stewardship, Home Base immerses students in meaningful project-based, inquiry-driven learning that nurtures holistic—intellectual (including academic), social, emotional, and physical—development. We embrace the spirit of cooperative education and cultivating a thriving, values-driven community where children grow as capable, ethical, and engaged citizens of the world.
About Us
We seek to nurture the positive development of our children, and of every member within our community.
Guiding Values | Core
Developmental Outcomes
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Our Curriculum
Our program is comprehensive; infused with common core and next generation science standards.
“…in leading children to wonder about worms and to search out the homes of squirrels and to find in the outgoing tides diversity in the color of periwinkles, we set children on a path to eventually see that in this myriad of parts there are partnerships that turn the natural world into a marvelous and complex community, a community where the story is as much about cooperation and interdependence as it is about competition and survival of the fittest, a story that provides the key to what has kept our planet livable. And once children start to see the interconnections and interdependency of living beings, then they are ready to dive into explanations of just how this interdependence works to keep our planet livable and just how we can work to restore what nature has been doing long before we humans came on the scene.”
W. George Scarlett
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