DISCOVERY LAB - PAY OUR BILL

100% of your donation will go towards providing the students and instuctors at Discovery Lab here in Ellensburg with the supplies they need!

Learn more about the school at DiscoveryLabEllensburg.com

"Discovery Lab was founded in 2011 by Natalia Parker and Tosha Woods as an effort to bring more diverse educational opportunities to Kittitas County. As educators and parents, both Parker and Woods envisioned creating learning environments that were adaptive and able to provide authentic and meaningful engagement for students. Over the 10 years of its existence, Discovery Lab has continued to evolve to meet the needs of the learners and the community. Our current model focuses on creating meaningful learning through the use of Project-Based Learning, multi-age learning cohorts, and utilizing practices that create humanizing classrooms."

To accomplish their mission, Discovery Lab:

• Utilizes a project-based, exploratory curriculum. The school uses the local community and environment to teach concepts across all areas of the curriculum, including math, science, language arts, and social studies.
• Emphasizes hands-on, real-world approaches to increase purposeful engagement for students as well as foster their awareness of the environment.
• Teaches how to think, not what to think
• Preserves in students a sense of attachment to their surroundings in order to develop active, productive community citizens who recognize their role and responsibility to themselves, their neighbors, and the world.
• Integrates the Washington State standards and support students in their own growth trajectory
• Develops partnerships with local and regional resources to build stronger working relationships among educators, parents, and other community members.