Middle School "Collaborative Days" are built around cross-curricular
projects, hands-on learning, or field studies.
Lower School students have "TEA Time" (Team Enrichment Activities)
three Fridays a month, when students participate in arts and sciences
enrichment activities.
Students don't just study SCIENCE, they experience and explore it through hands-
on activities, experiments and field studies, including partnerships with local scientific
and environmental organizations.
e Lower School uses the Go Math Curriculum, which focuses equally on understanding,
procedural skills, and mathematical fluency. Students prac tice skills using manipulatives
and multiple models to move through a carefully-sequenced arc of learning, developing
problem-solving strategies and becoming critical thinkers.
In Middle School, students are assessed and then grouped according to skill level. Teachers
may use "flipped" video-based lessons that allow students time to review, rewind, and ab-
sorb lessons so more class time can be devoted to one-on-one instruction, working through
problems, and answering questions. Students are fluid in the language of algebra before
progressing to geometry, which is offered in eighth grade to qualified students.
