From 1965 to 1970, she studied social sciences in New York and Puerto Rico and then returned to Ecuador to manage an agricultural development project in the Andes.
Since 1989, the institution has been authorised to award a secondary school leaving certificate equivalent to the German Realschulabschluss.
In their school, they have expanded the prepared environment, as proposed and developed by Montessori pedagogy, to include spaces in which children and young people can fulfil their needs for free movement, concrete experiences with unstructured materials or conversations with each other.
After the Pesta closed in 2010, Rebeca Wild was involved in setting up the León Dormido (=sleeping lion), a community project near Quito for living, learning and doing business in the service of life.
[3] The theoretical reflection of her work is based on the findings of the Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana.