Red Pine Learning Community

The mission of Red Pine Learning Community (RPLC) is to provide outdoors-first educational opportunities that develop each child’s compassion, connection, and resilience while cultivating a community that is aware of, and responsive to, the health and safety of all members.

We are a secular learning community in western Massachusetts. Our learning spaces, for ages 5-9 years, are primarily outdoors. Our values of outdoors-first learning, community care, accessibility, evidence-based decision-making, and environmental stewardship guide our practices. These practices include prioritizing the health and safety of all community members.

Red Pine Learning Community includes families and households that are medically vulnerable, seeking to avoid illness, navigating food allergies, or generally committed to creating a safe and inclusive community. We welcome children from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ families.