Novato Charter School is a community of parents and teachers using educational methods that nurture and inspire creativity, critical thinking, and motivated learning. As an institution committed to educating the whole child, the school endeavors to foster the unfolding of each child’s full potential. Guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf education, integrated with current best educational practices and State standards, our teachers nurture the imagination in the early years in order to build a foundation for abstract thinking. The child’s intellect is appropriately challenged in the middle years and through 8th grade. This education places equal emphasis on a solid academic foundation, artistic expression, social/emotional development, and attention to the inner life of the child. An integrated project-based approach to learning emphasizes the child’s relationship to the natural world thereby promoting respect for the environment and humankind. The goal of the Novato Charter School is to nurture the whole child with the objective of enabling students to become self-motivated, competent life-long learners.