Mission Statement
The mission of Something Good in the World is to provide a safe and enhancing environment wherein children may be promoted to achieve their highest potential in learning and development, and to prepare them toward becoming responsible human beings ready to take on the challenges of life.
We are committed to upholding a genuine value for humanity, and are steadfast in our dedication towards creating a new and better template for education in the 21st century, that integrates nature, the environment, and the practice of sustainable living.
The Services We Provide
Something Good in the World, Inc. is an affiliated group of concerned teachers and parents seeking to improve the situation of education in America. As a team, we bring together our collective experience and knowledge to try to offer the best possible educational alternatives for children, teachers, and parents.
Something Good in the World, Inc. provides services to the public in the form of educational programs for children of all ages and backgrounds. These programs include a wide variety of extracurricular, alternative, and curriculum-based programs, in schools and outdoors, in private and public spaces that extend to homeschooled children, children with learning differences and children in underserved areas.The activities range from academic arts-integrated and outdoor education programs for Pre-K through Grade 12 (Earth School), to creative arts workshops and field trips for teens (The Blue Star Youth Movement), to music and storytelling for families (Sounds Good), to community garden and landscape projects for all ages (The Children’s Peaceful Garden).
Our services are often given on a volunteer basis to communities and groups throughout Westchester County and the greater New York area. Some of our programming is paid for by parents, school districts, and teachers, and some is funded by Northern Westchester BOCES and the Westchester Arts Council.
Something Good in the World also offers educational services for adults, such as training sessions and seminars for parents and teachers, in order to further the concepts of our learning approach in the classroom, outdoors in nature, and at home.
Aims and Intentions
Our goal is to continue to grow our Children’s Environmental Education Center, currently located at Hilltop Hanover Farm in Yorktown, NY, including alternative and supplementary programs for children of all ages and backgrounds, as part of the internationally accepted method known as “The Golden Education Template,” whose philosophy and outstanding record of success has offered us the greatest inspiration for the possibility of a better system of education in America. We are currently licensed as a Golden Education Template school for Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 5, and we intend to continue to grow our farm-based educational programs by adding grades each year.
Inside of this goal, we foster the understanding that the preservation of our inherited and shared physical environment is achieved through practice of the principles of sustainability.