Organization
Colegio CIEDI

🌱 School Profile

Colegio CIEDI is a private, bilingual, and international school in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 1977. Since its beginning, the school has embraced a holistic and individualized educational approach, aiming to develop each student’s unique abilities and connect learning with real-world challenges. CIEDI offers the full continuum of International Baccalaureate (IB) programs and innovative methodologies such as Nature’s Classroom and Integrated STEM (i-STEM).

The school’s educational vision focuses on nurturing socio-emotional competence, creative thinking, and environmental responsibility, forming students who can positively transform their communities.

🌿 Preschool Focus: Nature's Classroom Program

In Preschool, CIEDI intentionally integrates children’s natural curiosity with experiential, outdoor-centered learning. This stage is guided by:

• Inquiry and play-based learning: Children explore, ask questions, and investigate real interests, building meaningful understanding through play.
• Nature as a “third teacher”: Through Nature’s Classroom, the environment becomes an active learning space where children experience, observe, and experiment while constructing knowledge.
• Authentic exploration: Activities such as nature walks, observing local ecosystems, planting, and caring for living things are woven into the curriculum, strengthening sensory development, scientific thinking, ecological awareness, and creativity.
• Links with i-STEM: Even at early ages, children engage in projects that connect nature exploration with foundational concepts in science, technology, engineering, and math.

🌟 Values and Educational Purpose

The school’s core values—autonomy, solidarity, respect, and responsibility—support a comprehensive formation where nature-based learning helps children grow in:

• Environmental awareness and appreciation
• Real-world problem-solving
• Emotional well-being and empathy
• Confidence and independence