Paul Conway
Argo Navis School
Mission
To create a learning environment that prepares students to become future innovators, globally responsible citizens, and mindful individuals.
Argo is a place where parents, children, and early education experts partner to provide exceptional learning opportunities in a safe and nurturing environment that:
1) Promotes responsible citizenship and respect of people, things, and places
2) Fosters risk-taking
3) Is student-led and teacher facilitated
4) Creates high expectations of students' goals and aspirations
5) Values play, process, and partnership
6) Believes in the benefit of outdoor learning experiences
Argo is a school that will challenge your kids AND nurture them, a place that will value them as individuals AND teach them to collaborate; a place where they will learn to read, count, write AND are encouraged to ask questions, explore, and create. Argo values nutrition and offers a vegetarian diet in-line with USDA standards providing the energy and nutrients young bodies and minds need to grow and develop. Argo spends 50% of school time learning outside in nature. They find joy in learning.
Outdated and out-of-step with what we now know about how children learn, our Educational system is perhaps the only industry that has not revitalized itself throughout the decades of massive industrial and technological advancements. Argo Navis is a maverick school, with focus on small classes, individualized learning plans, and using the canvas of this amazingly diverse campus called "Los Angeles" as our own personal classroom. In our world, it's no longer "what you know", it's "what you can do with what you know".