Walden is an Arts-based progressive, teacher-run elementary school in Berkeley, California. Our curriculum combines developmentally appropriate expectations with challenging units of study. The school’s environment enhances each child’s academic, emotional, social, creative and physical growth. Parents and educators founded Walden Center & School in 1958 to create a learning environment that treats artistic expression as an essential element of every child’s academic experience.

The Walden staff supports experiential learning, cooperative endeavor, creativity and appreciation of personal expression within a broader community. Children and adults at Walden value the racial, social, ethnic and economic diversity of the East Bay within the School’s nonsectarian and multicultural learning environment.

  

Walden is a member of EBISA (East Bay Independent Schools Assoc.)