Homeschool Program

We offer a variety of programs for part-time (homeschooling) families.

Download the necessary forms for homeschool enrollment

Program Descriptions

It has become apparent to us that surrounding children within the “village womb,” greatly increases the likelihood that each child can achieve his highest potential.  If that village is also comprised of compassionate mentors; if those mentors are dynamic people involved in pursuits that they enjoy; if the people of the village share a reverent relationship with the planet and humanity - then that village can help usher in an era of peace through culture.

The child’s joyous immersion in living ethics, that is in meaningful pursuits that trigger a response from his soul and are for the benefit of the whole, nurtures his becoming a truly conscious, and conscientious adult. We are co-creating a learning center to enable individuals to fully realize their own potentialities for self-actualization through wholistic development in mind, body, and spirit. A learning community seeks to create the conditions for the emergence of a new generation of cultured and enlightened leaders.

The Center for Living Ethics currently has three main areas in which we are pouring creative thought and energy.  The synchronicity of the following three areas is evolving based on harmonious, ecological, and compassionate relationships with the human soul, our planetary home and the human family:

1.   Teaching as Storytelling and Drama with stories and plays that connect with the child on the levels of knowledge and wisdom simultaneously. The reason for teaching this way is that children universally love to listen to stories and dramatize them. The stories cover all areas of the curriculum including botany, zoology, Earth science, biology, meteorology, the history of the human family, American history, and an in depth cultural study each year. Each of these stories includes a synthesis of the various sciences are told in terms of the mutually sustaining relationship between the whole and its parts. (Vicki Johnston, M. Ed)

2.   Multimedia Creativity Center that stimulates the children’s own creativity and connects them with global opportunities - with adventurers, explorers, environmentalists, and universities.  Under the direction of our new educational technology director, Dr. Lara Ashmore, the Multimedia Creativity Center encourages children to use Internet technology for cross-cultural, cross disciplinary and collaborative project opportunities.  This center provides positive, enriching and rewarding educational experiences that strengthen family and community bonds and foster technological fluency.  For example, one important component of the Multimedia Creativity Center will provide live Internet video communications with partner schools and organizations around the globe.  (Lara Ashmore, Ph.D.)

3.   Ecological Studies that take the children outside into nature (where they love to be) to discover the laws of ecology, and the importance of sustainable practices in our own relationship with the environment.  Our physical environment offers opportunities for meaningful, experientially based projects and learning across all disciplines.  We have our own 7 acres and easy access to Heard Museum wilderness, and Wilson Creek Wildlife reserve.  (Rachel Lueke, M. Ed.)

Building a Sustainable Culture

A community of co-learners building a sustainable culture provides a dynamic real-time working, living and experiential learning environment.  Working together for a common vision; we are a community committed to a new global ethic for environmental and social responsibility that will enable us to meet our individual needs and potential for wholistic development in a way that does not compromise opportunities and resources for future generations to do the same.

Our current global realities and local environmental conditions, calls on all of us to align with a common ethical vision to live, learn, and develop the means for a more sustainable way of life.  Coming together for the purpose of building sustainable communities puts learning into action.

Real life becomes our purpose for education, and the real world environment becomes our context for learning.  We feel education that takes place in the real world, and for the real world can only be fully realized through the shared resources made available within a community.

The Robert Muller Center for Living Ethics is a learning center for all ages that currently models educational values and opportunities through:

1)   Community Based Decision Making
2)   Protecting and promoting better human health
3)   Protecting and promoting the preservation of our natural resources
4)   Learning through cooperation, collaboration and dialogue
5)   Promoting quality of life for youth and families.
6)   Educating for ecological awareness and understanding
7)   Developing new economies developed ³for² life based on cooperation, barter, trade, and supporting local farmers and community service providers.
8)   Building community relationships and partnerships outside our immediate learning center in order to share resources and expand our reach for global educational opportunities.
9)   We are pioneers who respect ecological living, support diversity; appreciate tolerance, creative expression, and integrating individual needs with community needs for wholeness and well-being. We encourage transformative growth, and development through ecological understanding and environmentally conscious interactions.

The Living Process

As we co-create our learning community with a common vision to live, learn, and model a sustainable culture we are simultaneously developing new ways of interacting that enable each of us to grow through healthy relationships with each other and our environment.  This is truly a living process as learners of all ages are encouraged to see that the achievement of full personhood ­ dignity, potential, self-awareness, and spiritual fulfillment ­ is connected with a deeper loyalty, respect, and love for our planetary home and the family of humanity.

It has become more commonly understood that the journey to understand the world "out there" is actually an inward journey to understanding ones self and humanity. Together we can explore how sustainable development stretches across all disciplines of learning, and creates a foundation for learning that is an expression of the processes of life.

The Philosophical Framework

The Banner of Peace through Culture designed in 1929 by Nicholas Roerich hangs in our center.  On the banner are three red circles within a red ring on a white background. The presence of the banner signifies our commitment to unifying the sciences, arts, and ethics as the means to elevate human culture.

We have found the World Core Curriculum as outlined by Robert Muller to be the perfect philosophical framework for the implementation of our vision.  Our vision is to co-create a learning/working community in which all are compassionate, mutually supportive mentors who are also learners, and who are seeking to unify science, art, and ethics as three aspects of one whole; achieving harmonious relationships with individuals, the human family, our planetary home and place in the universe, and our place in time; learning to think and act cooperatively, innovatively, creatively, independently, intuitively, and with open hearts and broad minds; surmounting petty differences by unified striving to realize a culture of peace and beauty.

More Information

• See Vicki Johnston's Homeschooling Article for Vegetarian Baby and Child
• Join our Yahoo E-mail List for the Center for Living Ethics Homeschool program-RMCLE-Homeschool
• More information about the Robert Muller Center for Living Ethics - E-mail info@rmcle.org