Our Vision

The vision of Light Way Schools is to co-create a world-wide network of consciousness-based learning environments that fully support our children in remembering the unlimited potential of their spirit within a self-sustaining community built on trust, joy, harmony, love and peace.

We are the change we wish to see in the world.

Our Mission

The mission of Light Way Schools is to re-create the architecture of education through a curriculum designed to honor learner choice, empower children to make decisions about their lives, and encourage the development of their natural intuitive and emotional intelligence.

We intend to influence public policy in education to change how schools are funded so that parents and children gain the right to choose a system that supports them fully.

By 2109, (100) our goal is to open 150 Light Way schools in self-sustaining communities of around 150 people all over the world. By 2059 (50) we plan to open 10 Light Way schools. By 2034 (25) we plan to open 4 Light Way schools one each in Durango, CO, Galisteo, New Mexico, Sedona, Arizona, and Vancouver, BC and not necessarily in that order. By 2019 (10) our plan is to open the second Light Way school. By 2014 (5) we plan to have the first Light Way Village started. It will contain a Light Way school running at full capacity of 100-150 learners. The estate will be at least 300 acres with all the potential to ecologically and renewably sustain a group of 150 people. It will have businesses and community areas. Part of the profits from the businesses will go to sustainably finance the village school. By 2012, our three year plan is to purchase the land and begin the first Light Way Village. The year 2009 marks year one. Our goal for 2009 is to open our first campus beginning with ages 2-through 3rd grade on Tuesday, September 1st. Our first objective is an initial September enrollment of 33 children with a May year end enrollment of 55 learners.

Update: 4/3/2010 Our initial enrollment was 7 chidlren in 1-3 grade.  We have had an exciting year and learned much.  Now is the time for change though and we are closing up here in Houston and moving to Durango, Colorado where the interest in our type of school is high and so are the mountains.

All good plans are subject to change. :) Blessings to all our supporters.

Light Way Villages

Light Way Schools communities, called Light Way Villages are to be opened all over the world. Each school will be part of a self-sustaining community with independent sources of food, shelter, power, and water. Buildings will be entirely green, like Cobb Houses for example. Water will be cleaned and purified through the use of wetlands and other natural methods. Power will come from renewable resources such as wind, hydro, and solar only. Surplus power left after community needs are met, will be sold providing cash resources for community needs.

The village council will be sociocratic meaning decisions are made by discussion until consensus is reached. We see food, water, shelter, education, and power as the basic building blocks of human advancement. These resources need to be provided without question. We seek to build a community where this is the case. Each community will number around 150 adults and children. We are currently convening a team interested in co-creating either or both of the first two communities here in the Houston area, Light Way Village Houston, and the second in Durango, Colorado, Light Way Village Durango.

We visualize land of 300+ acres with an option to buy more as needed. The land should have its own source of water and water rights, have some wooded area/s, and buildings suitable for a school and living quarters. If you know of a piece of land that fits these criteria or if you would like to be a part of this exciting vision, please contact us. zahra@lightwayschools.org.

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