Living Classrooms of the National Capital Region (LC-NCR) is an affiliate nonprofit of the Living Classrooms Foundation. LC-NCR is responsible for the operation of educational and workforce development programs in the DC metropolitan area. LC-NCR is operated for the benefit of the community at large, providing hands-on education and job training programs ofr students from diverse backgrounds, with a special emphasis on at-risk youth.

Utilizing challenging settings, community revitalization, and a small staff to student ration, LC-NCR provides experience-based educational programs emphasizing the applied learning of math, science, language arts, history, economics, and ecology. Key objectives of all Living Classrooms programs are career development, cooperative learning, elevating self-esteem and fostering multicultural exchange.

The Foundation’s history and future focus on hands-on experiential education programs that motivate student “learning by doing”. LC-NCR has the goal of offering hands-on experience based education programs that are of the highest quality and excellence.