The Science and Environmental Center embodies the Nueva School?s mission to inspire passion for lifelong learning, foster social acuity and environmental citizenship, and develop the child’s imaginative mind, enabling students to learn how to make choices that will benefit the world. Founded in 1967, the Nueva School is an independent school, with the Hillsborough campus serving over 500 students from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. The 33-acre campus, located in the semi-rural coastal hills of the San Francisco Peninsula, features a thriving coastal live oak woodland ecosystem, a variety of dispersed structures and dramatic views of San Francisco Bay. The Science and Environmental Center is the final phase of the earlier Nueva Hillside Learning Complex originally completed in 2008. ?It is important to empower students to nurture the place in which they live and learn: their local neighborhood, regional environment, and global ecosystem. With increased awareness of devasting climate change and acknowledgment of the unsustainability of certain patterns within the human condition, environmental citizenship and the development of this mindset in schools are now core necessities in the educational process.? – Lee Fertig, Head of School © Bruce Damonte
Ecology of Learning – The new Science and Environmental Center supports the school?s evolving mission of sustainability and environmental stewardship as a foundational pillar of student education. The projec...