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Shelly Fox on Leading a Contemplative Progressive School


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Shelly Fox is the Director of Blue Mountain School, a contemplative progressive school in Floyd, Virginia. Her background is in community-based and school-based counseling.  Blue Mountain School’s model of Contemplative Progressive education is also grounded in values and practices that facilitate change and growth, and the model asks that everyone in their school community—parents, students, and teachers—support each other as they learn and grow from their experiences. 

Shelly states, "I am happy to be focusing my attention and energy to co-create (on a foundation that already has been established by those who came before) a small-scale educational system that fosters the development of loving human relationships, self-awareness, and self-efficacy—all of which are things that kids (and all of us!) need to be at peace in the world."

Shelly's Recommendations

Blue Mountain School

Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation
Responsive Classroom
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
The Choose Love Enrichment Program

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