The Clovis Program is focused on the ancient human lineage of hunter-gatherer cultures and the lessons they have to teach us.   There are two semesters, one spring and one fall which can be taken together or separately.

Each week the students will be guided to further their education of wilderness self-reliance and naturalist studies. Each semester will have three to five themes that will run throughout, informing the curriculum, allowing us to go deeper into the subject and ensuring the students engage with the information and skills in a variety of ways. This creates a more thorough education and helps to build lasting understanding of our studies.

In learning these skills students get an opportunity to cultivate personal strength and understanding of oneself. Each day at the Clovis Program includes time working on core skills such as tracking and nature awareness, hands on projects with natural materials, physical movement and games and time learning about the landscape. As the months go by students begin to build their knowledge and understanding through practice and study and experience the achievement of completing long term skills projects.  In order to ensure student to teacher ratios we will be limiting the class size to twelve students per group.

As a note not all our children are homeschooled as Vermont is a “school choice” state and parents may decide to augment their child’s public school studies with Wednesdays at Roots.

This program often fills to capacity and we will be taking applications on a first come first serve basis. All enrollments need to be done online through our online registration and payment process.