Golestan School vs. Prospect Sierra School

Golestan Elementary School nurtures kind, courageous, and thoughtful children through hands-on, experiential, and EL-inspired learning in a warm, beautiful environment.

Our elementary program blends strong academics with a celebration of diverse cultures, cultivating empathy, justice, and a global perspective.

Using research-based practices and joyful exploration-in the maker's lab, kitchen, garden, or outdoors-students grow into resourceful, innovative changemakers.

Golestan feels more like a home than a school: a place that smells like fresh bread, tastes like garden greens, and sounds like the United Nations.

Golestan Preschool offers a nurturing, Persian-immersion program rooted in Montessori, Waldorf, and Reggio philosophies.

In a calm, natural environment, children thrive through imaginative play, storytelling, music, art, and hands-on exploration.

Our emergent curriculum builds empathy, communication, and curiosity while fostering a deep connection to the natural world.

With practical life activities, rich art experiences, and joyful language learning, children develop creativity, confidence, and a love of discovery.

Prospect Sierra students are passionate about learning.  Our exceptional teachers inspire students to seek deep, meaningful understanding; to develop strong academic skills; and to become creative and independent thinkers.

Prospect Sierra cultivates compassion, fairness, respect, and individuality within a community that celebrates diversity, authenticity, and service.

Prospect Sierra School embodies several key assumptions in philosophy and daily practice: that learning is the young person's pathway to personal growth; that school should be both challenging and joyous; that school is a community through which students, teachers and parents develop trust, demonstrate cooperation, show respect, and acquire an understanding of the rights and needs of others; and that diversity, in its many human forms, brings quality and strength to our welcoming and inclusive school.

The school also believes that positive expectations and relationship-based teaching are essential to the learning process.

We intend that our students maintain a lifelong love of learning; to become reflective, critical thinkers; and to become responsible citizens of the global community.