Can we ever leave the Upland Hills Learning Community?
The simple answer is no.
We first visited Upland Hills Farm School in October of 1971, the school had opened a few weeks earlier. At that time the school was located on Upland Hills Farm. The school occupied a space in a very large barn that burned to the ground some years after we had already moved to our Indian Lake Road location. In this large barn with a huge hayloft, Upland Hills Farm School existed in about half of the lower section of the barn. The other half was a kitchen and a cafeteria.
– Shifting the education paradigm –
Dr Shefali Tsabary illuminates why Upland Hills School is a paradigm shifting educational entity.
Upland Hills School is a Michigan Independent School located in northern Oakland County on 35 acres of woods and rolling meadows in Oxford, Michigan. The school was actualized by a team led by Phillip Moore, the co-founder of the school, and founder of Trimb.in.
Upcoming Events
Experience the new educational paradigm in ways that forge authentic inter-personal bonds, deepen intra-personal awareness, and connection with the natural world. This retreat/work-playshop is designed to provide a seamless set of experiences that awaken new ways of teaching and learning. It's designed beautifully for anyone who cares about how we raise the next generation, including parents and educators. Join us! Learn more Here.
“I take great joy in commending Phillip Moore and his Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center to you. I’m personally convinced of the competence of Moore and his associates, of their integrity and of their realistic commitment to society. Warmly, faithfully,Buckminster Fuller, April 20, 1979
Our Philosophy
A Trim Tab is a conceptual tool taken from engineering. It is a miniature rudder, on the edge of a larger rudder, which if moved, builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around taking almost no effort at all.
Buckminster Fuller, American architect, systems theorist, author, designer and inventor, and Philip Moore’s mentor, teacher and adopted grandfather, lived his life as if he were a trim tab. Bucky’s World Game was the ultimate expression of his life’s work. The intention of World Game was to make the world work for 100% of humanity without endangering the natural world.
Trimtab.in under the guidance of Phil Moore is acting on behalf of all children to change the course of education, so that every child will be treated as a genius and will be nourished as a sacred being.
“What can happen if an entire community makes a commitment to become the Trim Tab for a paradigm shift in the field of education?
Our Philosophy In Action
Upland Hills School is a Michigan Independent School located in northern Oakland County on 35 acres of woods and rolling meadows in Oxford, Michigan.
The Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center is dedicated to providing experiences and resources that promote a sustainable relationship with the natural world and each other.
Both projects were actualized by by a team led by co-founder of both ventures, and founder of Trimb.in, Phillip Moore.
ROCKET MAN
Upland Hills School (Oxford, MI) grad, Eric Roberts, talks about being a spacecraft engineer and about the profound influence his Upland Hills School education had on his life and career.
A SCHOOL FOR THE WORLD
Author, teacher, philosopher, Jean Houston, talks about Upland Hills School in Oxford, Michigan during her visit.
UPLAND HILLS SCHOOL ALUM
Michael Leone describes the profound and positive influence that his Upland Hills School experience has had on the course of his life.
Every child is born a genius. It is my conviction from having watch a great number of babies grow up that all of humanity is born a genius and becomes de-geniused very rapidly by unfavourable circumstances and by the frustration of all their inbuilt capabilities.
– Buckminster Fuller
What Others are Saying about Conscious Teachers
“Conscious Teachers lights one path which, intentionally and collectively, may nudge us to move in positive directions as we learn how to play/work together in aligning ourselves with universal processes.”Linda Easley, Professor of Anthropology at Siena Heights University
“Friends, love, learning, care…. These kids are going to grow up to be very different adults. They are hands on, sensory rich…. growing up to be true, deep, wise, interested human beings.”Jean Houston, on her experience of the Upland Hills School