School Programs- our 11th year!
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We feel that children can best learn about nature by actually being in nature. Our programs provide experiential education in an incredible natural classroom. Our 30-acre “classroom” includes meadows, wetlands, and woodlands.

Programs are alligned with the State Standards of Learning and Early Foundations of Learning Standards. Early education (preschool - grade 2), elementary (grades 3-5), and middle school programs serve students from all three school divisions in the Rockbridge area. 

Teaching staff members are in the process of being trained as "Master Naturalists." Volunteers from the local community and universities join in on a regular basis.  Interested in volunteering? 

We extend the school-time programs to a joint program with the YMCA for students in after-school day care at Waddell and Central.

High praise for Boxerwood's education program: "Noting the high Science scores [State SOLs] throughout the division, Crance [Cindy Crance, the division's director of instruction] credited our relationship with Boxerwood which helps us support science. For the past several years, county middle-school and elementary students have traveled to the educational garden for hands on encounters with nature, all carefully calibrated to the requirements of the state SOLs." Lexington News Gazette, July 15, 2009.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, the Valley Regional Office (DEQ-VRO) recognized Boxerwood for… “an amazing job planning educational field days consistent with the Virginia Standards of Learning, that are incredibly well organized and coordinated... DEQ-VRO is excited to continue our support of Boxerwood’s commitment to educating the next generation about Virginia’s streams and rivers”