VERDE VALLEY SCHOOL
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Mission Statement
Verde Valley School educates students for college and life by encouraging them to become intellectually curious, academically accomplished and creatively expressive. The program fosters intercultural understanding and world citizenship, environmental stewardship, the value of physical labor, and service to humanity.
About This Cause
Verde Valley School is a co-educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. Founded in 1947 by Hamilton and Barbara Warren the school brings together students from all over the world to live, work and study together on our campus in Sedona, Arizona. Verde Valley School (VVS) offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum through a hands-on, project-based, student-centered approach to ensure that students become directors of their learning process, guided and mentored by skilled teachers. We pair the IB program with a fully developed experiential model by taking our classroom outside, rolling up our sleeves, getting a little dirty, trying out theories and living out our learning. The principles of service and labor are deeply rooted in our fabric and a part of our every day. Students and staff log thousands of hours every year, supporting local and international communities from work jobs on capus tending the farm or cleaning the stables to broader communities from Arizona to Mexico to Malawi. The school’s founders understood that involving students in building and maintaining their school and world not only empowers them, but also gives them a greater appreciation for the life they help to build and care for, around them. VVS graduates are ethical individuals, possessed of a strong sense of personal and social responsibility, skilled in ways that will enable them to participate effectively in community building and decision making, appreciative of the necessity and value of physical work, open to the discovery and enduring satisfactions of artistic creation, knowledgeable about the depth and range of our shared cultural heritage, generous in spirit, mindful of the importance of world citizenship and ready to practice its privileges and obligations.