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Our academic program is designed to strengthen our students' academic skills in order to prepare them for college and for life. Our program endeavors to engage our students' imaginations, spark their enthusiasm for independent work, and to lay the foundation for future study. Our program reflects a humanistic perspective. Thus, every course addresses basic questions about the nature of the human being, society, and the natural world.

A central feature of Waldorf education is the main lesson-a double academic period taught at the beginning of each day. A main lesson is taught over a period of three to four weeks and students take approximately ten main lessons every year. The purpose of a main lesson is to explore one subject intensively through lecture, discussion, written, and artistic projects. During a main lesson, students work from original sources and create illustrated notebooks that chronicle their experience of the subject. Main lessons are given in the sciences, mathematics, literature, history, and history of the arts. Main lessons are complemented by year-long courses in mathematics, humanities, and foreign languages. In ninth- and tenth-grades, students may also take electives in science, art, and music. In eleventh-grade students may choose between year-long history, science and music theory electives. In twelfth-grade, students may elect to take year-long, advanced level courses in subjects of their choice.

The School Day

Each school day begins with a main lesson. The middle part of the school day includes classes in mathematics, modern languages, humanities, and various electives, which meet four and five times a week throughout the year. A double period is scheduled at the end of the day for laboratory classes that accompany science main lessons, the arts, and practical work. All of these subjects are taught in blocks of three to six weeks and meet three times a week. Physical education and music ensembles meet once a week for a double period.