About Us

Expeditionary Learning (EL Education) provides a powerful, coherent framework for engaging learning with a focus on rigorous student outcomes in academics and character. Students experience expeditions (real-world, in-depth studies both inside and outside the classroom), share their learning and achievements with authentic audiences through public exhibitions, and belong to a Crew (EL’s advisory vehicle for fostering relationships and the habits of scholarship that every student needs to be successful.) 

We offer three different Project Lead the Way pathways, namely in Computer Science, Engineering, and Biomedical Studies. To the best of our knowledge, we would be one of a very few, if not only, Project Lead the Way schools in the country sponsoring three complete pathways.

The focus of our middle school will be to provide students the opportunity to explore the pathways that become available in high school. Sixth and seventh grade students will be able to take “wheel” classes that last for nine weeks and rotate through experiences in Computer Science, Engineering, Biomedical Studies, and Art. In the 8th grade year, we plan to have students focus on two pathways featuring semester long classes, so by their 9th grade year, students have a clear idea of which pathway they will focus upon in high school.

Most students in grades 6 - 12 have a supervised study hall. This will increase the amount of homework being completed at school so that students have a better understanding of the material. Students may use this time to work together in small groups or individually. In addition, all study halls begin with 20 minutes of choice reading. Students choose a book of their choice from either a teacher classroom library or the school library for this time. There are a few class options that may take the place of supervised study such as leadership, Journalism (yearbook) or Learning Strategies. See the course catalogue for more detail.