We strive to provide experiences where our students will encounter physical and emotional events that engage their senses and activate their memories to help them become not just book smart but experience smart as well. Education is not the process of pouring knowledge into students’ heads but the hard and sometimes uncomfortable work of equipping them with the tools for digging their own deep well of wisdom from which to draw. They should move ahead.  For that they will need to go to the academics and beyond.  They need to develop virtue and character, practical skills and common sense, explore and research, develop relationships, a sense of belonging and community and a heart for service.  Students will need to become not only book smart, but experience smart as well.

Experience provides a valuable opportunity for learning in a way paper and pencil or a computer environment alone cannot.  This is where students best explore the relationship between knowledge and the world that produces it.

Whether it is in the classroom or out, real world experience lets students interact with a community of learners that broadens their exposure to interpretations and insight, invites them to consider social behaviors, cultivate manners and develop rapport with other students and adults.  Active learning encourages them to value the privilege of being alive and become not just participants but joyful contributors in this shared world and its future.