Our upper school schedule will be changing for the upcoming school year. We have worked to create a program that better serves Middle School needs. Our new schedule provides fewer transitions/fewer teachers per quarter, larger blocks of time to focus on projects and student centered work, and more autonomy from the High School students during classes. We will be using advising as the core of our program, working with Personalized Learning Plans (PLP). Advising will be an academic period--like a homeroom-- not just a community and social time. For students coming up from the lower school, this will feel familiar. For newer students, this schedule will allow for Trillium to emphasize the things that make it unique: strong community relationships, student centered learning, and the democratic model.
On the surface, it may seem that there are fewer choices offered. However, students will still have ownership of their own learning through their choices within advising, intensives, and block classes. Instead of having a large list of classes they are taking, they will have fewer courses, but more supported choice within those classes.
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