Evergreen Community School
Preschool in Santa Monica, CA 90404
In the fall of 1983, All Saints’
Episcopal Church of Beverly Hills
founded a Preschool to serve its parishioners and the local
community. It opened its doors
with four children enrolled and one teacher, Alise Shafer. It was a
blank canvas with a palette of possibilities. A social constructivist approach was adopted as a
theoretical framework,
iNFLuenced by the work of Piaget
and Vygotsky, among others.
As awareness of the school’s
program spread through the
community, the student population expanded and diversifiEducation
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- California Department of Social Services: Community Care Licensing Division
- Preschool:
- Yes
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The philosophy of Evergreen Community
School is based primarily on social construc-
tivist theory which asserts the following:
rather than being imported from an external
source.
intricate, thus learning involves the consider-
ation of multiple truths, representations and
perspectives.
emphasize authentic tasks in a meaningful
context rather than abstract instruction out
of context.
dents clarify and modify their ideas, thus
enabling the student to build a personal
knowledge base.
