Welcome

Tracie Mastronicola

Welcome to The Healdsburg School website, and thank you for taking the time to explore our school! 

The Healdsburg School’s purpose is clear. We are committed to fostering a learning community where children are encouraged to follow their innate curiosities, think critically,  listen carefully, and engage in the world with kindness and conviction, tending to the work of their generation. 

While students everywhere engage in discipline-specific classes, learning the skills and concepts of mathematics, language arts, history, and more, as an International Baccalaureate (IB) lower school and an inquiry and project-based middle school, at THS we pay close attention to the space between the disciplines. Once students leave a school environment, they’ll spend a lot of time and attention on multiple aspects of a field of study. Engineers are required to think beyond mathematics, doctors think beyond biology, therapists think beyond the human brain, artists think beyond methods and materials. We live in an interdependent, interconnected world, and at The Healdsburg School, we help children spend time in and contribute to that world. 

THS students love to learn and engage with the world around them. They understand that their futures will ask them to find creative and elegant solutions to a variety of challenges. In addition to their core academic program, service learning, outdoor adventures, and a global perspective offered within our IB approach to teaching and learning, our children learn to ask themselves, What have I learned? What do I still need to know? What’s my next step? How do I move forward? Learning to ask and answer those questions for themselves is a very powerful guide that every THS graduate will carry with them to high school and beyond, ready, curious, and confident in exploring the complexities of the unknown, the unanswered, and the brand new. 

Fueled by a love of learning, our children take pride in their many accomplishments, they are taught to be kind to themselves and others, and they feel confident and fully prepared when they move on to high school. We are a school that celebrates the joy and challenge of learning and believes in the indomitable spirit of play. While we prepare students for their bright futures, we also appreciate childhood and adolescence as a special time that should not be rushed but cherished.  

It is my pleasure and privilege to represent The Healdsburg School community and to lead it forward. I look forward to sharing our vision with each of you. I invite you to explore our website and/or visit our campus in person. I look forward to welcoming you!