在社会学课上进行了一项生活质量研究后，一群三年级和四年级的学生在儿童村学校确定他们想要帮助那些比他们不幸的人。在由学习伙伴支持的创业冒险计划中，10名学生参与了一个全国性的筹款项目。使用设计过程，学生制作了调查问卷，并参与了建立和测试各种产品以决定他们的最终项目：设计和销售玻璃小花园的业务。在他们的社区导师和教师赞助的帮助下，这些学生创办了“植物村”，开始大规模生产玻璃小花园，并将其销售给学校、家人、朋友和社区成员。

总共，儿童村学校的这些学生为The Alex筹集了2000多美元，并且因独创性荣获了学习伙伴的国家奖项。

儿童村学校是CBE中一个独特的设置，旨在满足目前学校、社区和家庭中严重情绪和行为困难的小学生的复杂学习、社交和情感需求，这些困难对他们参与学习能力产生了重大障碍。通过参与这个项目，学生加强了坚持、自信和学习等学术和生活技能，同时也发展了公民意识和品格。

​​Upon doing a quality of life study in their Social Studies class, a group of Grade 3 and 4 students at the Children’s Village School identified that they wanted to help those less fortunate. Through the Entrepreneurial Adventure Program, supported by the Learning Partnership, 10 students participated in a countrywide program to raise money for charity. Using the design process, students created surveys and engaged in building and testing a variety of products to decide their final project: a business that would design and sell terrariums. These students, along with the help of their community mentor and teacher sponsors, created the “Plant Village” and began mass-producing terrariums, which they then sold to the school, family, friends and community members. 

In total, these students from Children’s Village School raised just over $2000 for The Alex and won a National Award from the Learning Partnership for Originality.

The Children’s Village School is a unique setting within the CBE designed to meet the complex learning, social, and emotional needs of elementary school-aged children whose severe emotional and behavioral difficulties in their current school, community and home create significant barriers to their ability to engage in learning.  Through participation in this project, students reinforced academic and life skills around persistence, confidence and learning while also developing citizenship and character.