http://www.indigochild.com/schools.html 
Thanks to the Indigo Child website for the much of the following:

VISIONARY SCHOOLS

It is heartening to know that these visionary schools are actively contributing to progressive change. Change that gives answers. Change that produces soul growth. Change that is expanding consciousness and transforming lives. The teachers and students of the schools featured here are paving the way.

We recommend people support these schools through giving their energies - in time, participation, or money. Or even better; put all three to work in your community by finding the educational gem in your own backyard or creating one! That's how each one of these schools began: someone dreaming a dream they are willing to make come true. Here is the beginning of Education for the Third Millennium - the schools we wished we could have gone to and the ones that will make your child say, "MOM! DAD! I want to go to that school"!

A list of 13 special schools....... 
from http://www.som.org/youth/doz.htm

Oak Grove School
School of the Future
Ojai, California

Only school in U.S. founded by Krishnamurti, draws upon all ideas that work to give the best education for the whole person. Preschool to high school, Oak Grove welcomes students from all over the world. Nonprofit, self supporting students raise money each year for scholarships. 160 students.
"A visionary school creating not only a place for academics and college preparation but also to entertain and explore that which is beyond the physical. Graduates are mindful." Dr. Pam Blosser

"This school teaches children and young adults how to be Self aware. Although all the other programs seem to promote excellence, this school appears to be unique in educating the spirit, not just the intellect. The children who spoke were thoughtful and insightful and I believe this school will teach future leaders who will have the Self awareness and Self possession to bring light into the world." Dr. Laurel Clark

Oak Grove School
220 West Lomita Ave.
Ojai, CA 93023
805-646-8236

Belin-Blank Center, Iowa City, IA International and comprehensive
International in scope offering individual classes, summer programs, Saturday programs, live-in programs. Teaches teachers and parents along with children. Includes public, private and homeschooling. Started 1980. Nonprofit housed at University of Iowa. 3-11 grades.

Belin and Blank International Center for Gifted Educational and Talent Development
210 Lindquist Center
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1529
800-336-6463

Providence-St. Mel, Chicago Work/study program
Teaches children how to use initiative, to be responsible, to understand cause and effect, to believe in themselves and to work for their dreams through a unique work-study program for 1-12 grade. It is a wonderful example for this day and age, showing that self esteem comes from creating and putting forth effort, not welfare or pity. 97% of Providence-St. Mel's students go to college.
1970 Catholic school closed, Paul Adams decided the school needed to remain there. Haven for kids in the middle of gangland that stresses honesty, integrity, accountability. When our representative went to interview Adams he looked her in the eye and said, "What can you do for my kids?" As a result we are going to teach a course in mental disciplines, including concentration. 1972, nonprofit.

Providence - St. Mel
119 S. Central Park Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60624
773-722-7756

School of the Plains, Oklahoma City.
 Learning through daily experience
A two-year-old school founded by a couple who have homeschooled their seven children, incorporates the best systems for teaching the whole person, from Waldorf to Montessori. Offering hands-on experience this is learning by living. Deserves the recognition that can benefit their efforts and inspire others to fulfill their dream.

School of the Plains
PO Box 60548
Oklahoma City, OK 73146
405-478-8848

Waldorf Teacher Education Teaching teachers who teach whole self
Waldorf education, based on Rudolf Steiner's teachings, educates the whole person in 120 schools worldwide. As well as arts and sciences, Waldorf philosophy teaches children goodness, beauty, and truth through an ascending spiral of learning that includes experience, application, and service. It teaches how to use imagination as well as memory, to understand the picture language as well as living in harmony with nature and universal law. Many idealistic conventionally tooled teachers discover the Waldorf philosophy is compatible with their own and liberating for they have the freedom to be the best teacher they can be. Training teachers will enable this education to become more widespread and flourish. Six teacher institutes in states and in Canada.

Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
3911 Bannister Road
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
916-961-0927

Post Oak, Houston, Texas Teaching whole person
A 35-year-old Montessori school for 14 month olds to 14 year olds. Well established school that illustrates what these teachings offer. As with many of these schools there is a maximum number of students (350) enabling the student-teacher association, essential to learning, to flourish and grow.

Post Oak School
4600 Bissonnet St.
Bellaire, TX 77401
713-661-6688

ABC-123, Republic, Missouri Early learning
The only school on our list that serves pre-school ages 3-5. The dedicated teacher who does her own building maintenance, says she has been waiting all her life to do this! This is teaching 65 children in buildings owned by a Methodist church in this rural Missouri town. She is a testament to the reality that learning begins at birth.

ABC and 123 Preschool
139 N. Walnut
Republic, MO 65738
417-732-1191

Upland Hills, Oxford, Michigan Community interaction/involvement
Outstanding quality is their desire to be a model for other schools based on love, community, and drawing out the genius of every child. Toward this end, Director Phil Moore is writing a book chronicling his 30 years with Upland Hills. This school provides hands-on experience, teaching concepts through practical application. This kind of education aids children to live better lives. Founded in 1971.

Upland Hills School
2575 Indian Lake Road
Oxford, MI 48370
248-693-2878

Community School #1, Kansas City Community School of Future
Based philosophy that child learns best when he or she is able to teach others. One room school for wide interaction of students is not going back but moving forward as it reflects the society we live in. This school teaches the importance of community by giving the students the chance to live it, essential for spiritual man to flourish. 1982. K-6th grade.

Community School #1
1615 W. 45th St.
Kansas City, MO 64111
816-753-2288

Sycamore School, Indianapolis, Indiana Parent-founded school
Only complete talented and gifted school in the state of Indiana. Started in 1984 by parents to meet the needs of their children. Within a year, 50 parents interested beginning a school with 110 students. Not 400 students preschool to eight grade learn leadership, teaching others, based on family roots. Paint ceilings as Michelangelo did while parents devote time to teaching in their areas of expertise. Nonprofit.

Sycamore School
1750 W. 64th St.
Indianapolis, IN 46260
317-253-5288

St. Louis Children's Aquarium, St. Louis, Missouri Learning is Life-long
With its on-site aquarium and Internet access it may seem a strange nominee, but its ideal of teaching teachers while educating people of all ages makes it outstanding. When Jacques Cousteau looked for a place to donate his library, St. Louis Children's Aquarium was his choice.

St. Louis Children's Aquarium
416 Hanley Industrial Court
St. Louis, MO 63144
314-647-9594

University of Human Goodness, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Service Education
This program, although not specifically for talented and gifted children, educates the soul and teaches the importance of contributing to the lives of others. All volunteer, 501(c)(3) educational organization, is dedicated to teaching children how to be of service to others. Personal responsibility is taught through its hospice program and the respite programs. Noteworthy for its humanity in an age of technology. 14 years old.

University of Human Goodness
3983 Old Greensboro Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-761-8745

Brisbane Academy Charlotte, North Carolina
A college preparatory school started in an effort to nurture natural talents that were being ignored in public schools. Starting with eleven students she had tutored, Geraldine White created Brisbane Academy. Averaging three grade levels higher compared with public standards, Brisbane contracts parent and student to foster a "Global Family" concept. 90 students.

Brisbane Academy
5901 Statesville Road
Charlotte, NC 28269
704-598-5208

The Montessori Schools
"Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his inmost core." Maria Montessori

The Montessori school system is perhaps the most widely known school of its type. With a lineage that started in Rome with Dr. Montessori's day care center in 1907, these wonderful schools blossomed into an American nationwide system of licensed schools and educators that feature children as "independent learners." The American Montessori Society (AMS) was eventually founded in 1960. 

The Waldorf School / Rudolf Steiner School
"Waldorf Schools are in the most impressive way concerned with quality in education. All schools would do well to become knowledgeable about the philosophy that underlies Waldorf education." Dr. Boyer - Director of the Carnegie Foundation for Education

In the year 1919, the first Waldorf school in the world opened in Stuttgart, Germany. The first Waldorf school in North America, the Rudolf Steiner School of New York, was opened in 1928. Today it is reported that the Waldorf education is the largest and fastest growing nonsectarian educational movement in the world, with 550 schools in over thirty countries. The movement is very strong in Western Europe, especially in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and in the Netherlands, Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries. There are approximately 100 schools in North America.

"Entering a Waldorf school is like passing through Alice's looking-glass into an educational Wonderland. It is a surprising, sometimes disorienting world of fairy tales, myths and legends, of music, art, physics demonstrations, class plays and seasonal festivals, of workbooks written and illustrated by students, a world without exams, grades, computers or televisions. It is, in short, a world where most of the standard ideas and practices of American Education have been stood on their heads."

The Sudbury Valley School: 2 Winch Street; Framingham, MA 01701
(508) 788-0674 Sudbury Schools web site e-mail: sudval@aol.com

"In 1968 a unique experimental school was established in Framingham, Massachusetts. Sudbury Valley School, which is open to students ages 4 to 19, has pioneered a number of highly innovative practices. Its work has gained wide recognition, and it has the distinction of being the first such school ever to be fully accredited.

One of the most interesting aspects of Sudbury Valley is its attitude toward learning. The school starts from a premise stated by Aristotle over 2000 years ago in his famous opening to the Metaphysics: 'Human Beings are naturally curious.' This implies that people learn constantly, as an innate part of living. It means also that children will learn through following their natural inclinations, doing what they want with their time, all day, every day. Regardless of their ages, from the moment students enter the school, they are on their own, forced to take responsibility for themselves and make all the tough decisions that will determine the course of their lives." *

* From the book Free at Last - The Sudbury Valley School - by Daniel Greenberg http://www.sudval.org.

OTHER SCHOOLS:
More schools that have features in common with Montessori, Waldorf, and Sudbury. (Our thanks to the Sudbury web site for providing many of the recommendations for these related schools.)