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"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die."   - John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down

Silicon Valley & Peninsula Programs

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To drop in for Winter 2014, or register for the full Spring 2015, visit our Registration Page. 

Spring 2015 classes include:   
  • Mondays - South Bay (Gilroy-Cupertino)
  • Tuesdays - Peninsula
  • Tuesdays - Wild Makers at Huddart Park
  • Thursdays - Peninsula
  • Fridays -  Peninsula
  • Fridays - Wild Projects for ages 9+

Our days run from 10am-4pm, and each session runs for 14 weeks, visiting a new outdoor location each week. 

Silicon Valley Locations

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For parents, Wild Child can involve a good deal of driving. That's why we try to group our days by geographical focus, encourage families to carpool, and have only 1-2 "far-flung" locations per 14-week session. 

Mondays are for South Bay folks, and we focus our "regular" locations from Cupertino to Morgan Hill. 

Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays are more Peninsula-centric, ranging from Cupertino to San Bruno. 
 
We try to balance finding the best wild places there are in the Bay Area with the needs of families to have locations closer to home. So we might enjoy places in the heart of Silicon Valley (like Rancho San Antonio and Stevens Creek County Park) several times per 14-week session. 

Places that take us way out there (like Bean Hollow State Beach, Uvas Canyon, or Henry Coe State Park) we visit less frequently, but value for the depth of experience that it brings to our program. We find that kids have fun in nature whether it's semi-urban or totally wild. But there's something to be said for the deep, amazing nature that comes with the less-visited and more wild places of the Bay Area. 

"What makes people smart, curious, alert, observant, competent, confident, resourceful, persistent - in the broadest and best sense, intelligent - is not having access to more and more learning places, resources, and specialists, but being able in their lives to do a wide variety of interesting things that matter, things that challenge their ingenuity, skill, and judgement, and that make an obvious difference in their lives and the lives of people around them." 

- John Holt, Teach Your Own 
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The Children Are Our Future.
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