The experiential ed program is designed to promote a love of life long learning through experiences inside and outside of the classroom. Students engage in monthly field trips in alignment with our IB curriculum. During these excursions they interact with natural areas, visit sites of historical significance, witness marvels of engineering, and visit galleries in our area to learn about different forms of self expression. A large part of these trips is building autonomy and allowing kids to openly explore areas to connect what’s going on in school to what’s happening in the outside world.

These trips are not only academic , they are also completing service learning projects with their classes. During these projects, students identify a service area and work together to develop an action plan on how to help their community. Some service projects that are currently in action are: beautification of natural spaces, helping unhoused members of the community, animal care, supporting elderly neighbors, and beautification of our new school property through upcycling materials for art and planning/implementing a community garden.

On top of all of this, our students have been caring for both an indoor hydroponics garden and outdoor garden where they have been producing herbs, fruits, and vegetables that they get to eat and serve to their peers as part of lunch.