Our Mission
Prepare young people for University and a life that leads them to international understanding, a passion for lifelong learning, shared universal values, and a tradition of global stewardship and deliberate, conscientious active citizenry through a blend of virtual and local experiential education that follows the principles of Montessori education at the secondary level.
Our Philosophy
We believe these are the essential characteristics of our Secondary Montessori program:
- All students are capable individual learners, and should have the opportunity for educational experiences that are personally meaningful, leading to fulfilling careers.
- People, at every age, should be treated with kindness and respect.
- When provided the right opportunities, most people are innately self-motivated to learn and master new skills.
- Most of us, especially young people, want to make a contribution to the world.We allow for individualized pacing where possible and appropriate.
- Our program allows students ample opportunities, interwoven throughout the curriculum, to move around and work with their hands.
- We do not emphasize academic competition among students.
- We encourage students to learn from their mistakes without anxiety.
- Our program provides a wide range of experiential learning opportunities interwoven throughout the curriculum to allow students to learn through experience and practical application.
- We evaluate students on a logical, objective basis.
- Our curriculum is oriented toward the development of high-order formal thinking, not simply memorization.
- Our curriculum offers students a broad view of the world, emphasizing the historical development of ideas and things, and an international perspective.
- We consciously strive to help students to develop maturity, high self-esteem, independence, responsibility, compassion, an openness to new experience and learning, patience and self-discipline, acceptance of others, and effective and satisfying social relationships.
- Our program provides for a multi-disciplinary approach to learning and an interdisciplinary approach to program planning.
- We consciously strive to create a sense of community among the faculty and students, allowing many opportunities for student participation in the planning and operation of the life of the school community.
- We introduce students into the broader life, functions, and social issues of the community in which they live, both through the curriculum and through field experiences, volunteer efforts, and work projects.
- We facilitate our students’ transition into adulthood through supporting the development of effective and responsible interpersonal and social skills, particularly in the areas of the relationship between the student and his family, relationships with peers, relationships with the opposite sex, and the development of a capacity for financial independence, responsibility, compassion, strives to introduce students into the broader life, functions, and social issues of the community in which they live.