The Sage School

Broadly speaking, The Sage School is built on a philosophy that students are naturally inquisitive, curious, caring, thoughtful, and engaged people, and that our job is to maintain, uncover, remember, and push this by creating educational experiences that simultaneously address their current developmental levels and attend to the culture and enviro... nment of the time and foreseeable future, while still being rooted in personal and real world examples. A colleague once said, "Your schedule is your mission. It is the goal of The Sage School to embody its mission, not just in writing, but also in the form and function of all that we do. Community Action is incorporated into our weekly schedule, field studies punctuate the year, the focus of our core projects is human ecology and ecological and humanitarian issues, and we do our best to actively ask what is the best way for teenagers to learn. The Sage School is intentionally designed by the faculty to 'close the gap' between students and their learning experiences. To borrow from John Dewey, it is designed to 'unite child and curriculum.' Students at Sage are engaged in important and meaningful work, work that matters not only for individual development, but for community and planet. In order for this system to work, all of our teachers at The Sage School must be Adolescent Anthropologists.Read More