Middle school

Our Middle School faculty is dedicated to fostering students’ curiosity, skill development and desire to learn. Lessons are designed to promote students thinking critically and creatively as well as to support the development of strong character and life skills. Students are empowered to reach their fullest potential in a culture which meaningfully incorporates the Learner Profile of respect, responsibility, resilience, compassion and integrity in all that we do.

Students are empowered to take responsibility for their lives while also recognizing how they can make a positive difference in their community and internationally. The Middle School has leadership development activities such as Model United Nations and Week Without Walls, which are highly successful in promoting global citizenship.

At Schutz, we recognize that:

• Students are seeking new levels of independence and can be highly peer centered.
• Changes students are experiencing affect their thinking and behavior.
• Each young adolescent is maturing on his or her own timeline.
• This understanding of young adolescent development also affects decisions about curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Our Middle School educational programs are founded on the following four pillars:

• • Developmentally responsive: using the distinctive nature of young adolescents as the foundation upon which all decisions about school organization, policies, curriculum, instruction and assessment are made.
  • Challenging: ensuring that every student learns and every member of the learning community is held to high expectations.
  • Empowering: providing all students with the knowledge and skills they need to take responsibility for their lives, to address life’s challenges, to function successfully at all levels of society and to be creators of knowledge.
  • Equitable: advocating for and ensuring every student’s right to learn and providing appropriately challenging and relevant learning opportunities for every student.