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Innovative Teacher Project Roundtable (5/19)

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Design Thinking Institute, 6/18-21
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Diversity Statement

We believe diversity is essential to achieving our mission of educating gifted children to make choices that will benefit the world. Gifted youth are in every socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, and racial group, and in families with diverse structures. We are committed to building and sustaining an inclusive community based on these beliefs.

WE BELIEVE diversity is essential to achieving our mission of educating gifted children to make choices that will benefit the world. Gifted youth are present in every socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, and racial group and in families with diverse structures. They bring diverse gifts and talents to the Nueva community. Nueva believes that the best education occurs when students, faculty, staff, and families are able to share their talents in a community drawn from all of these backgrounds. We are dedicated to building and sustaining a community that welcomes and celebrates diversity.

WE COMMIT to finding, welcoming, and nurturing gifted children and their families from diverse backgrounds. We are dedicated to attracting and retaining world-class faculty and staff who mirror our institution’s beliefs and values. The Nueva community actively seeks better ways to support our members through community conversations on diversity, professional development, and tuition assistance.

WE NURTURE diversity in our classrooms through curricula that explore multiculturalism, globalization, and inclusiveness through an emphasis on social and emotional learning. Our curriculum emphasizes empathy as critical to creative solutions and leadership. The collaborative learning we teach honors each individual’s voice. We inspire children to know themselves, be themselves, and express themselves.

WE RECOGNIZE that cultivating an inclusive diverse community is a complex and ongoing process. We encourage and value honest conversations and believe they strengthen our community and enrich the experiences of our students, teachers, staff, and parents. We promise to continue to evaluate our policies and practices in order to realize our goals of diversity and inclusion at Nueva.

The Nueva School is a member of People of Color in Independent Schools (POCIS), Student Mentoring and Resource Team Program (SMART), and A Better Chance.

Innovation Spotlight

Thumbnail imageThe April evening featuring Eighth Grade Recital Projects was a night of intriguing, thoughtful, and creative presentations. Also stunning was the array of topics -- from designing a soccer cleat for injury prevention, to writing novels, to making a film using stop-motion technology, to designing and constructing a computer-aided quadcopter.

This year marks twenty-two years of Recital Projects at Nueva, a student rite of passage and an opportunity to investigate and learn about a passion of one’s choosing. Each pupil selects a topic to research extensively, writes a paper, and aims to somehow better the world through the project. Each student also has a mentor to help guide him/her through the long-term project. Some students pursue the interest areas in high school and beyond (see this story about Natalia Duong).

Recital projects culminate more than a year of work. Initially, seventh graders meet four times in the spring to begin scoping projects. In eighth grade, students attend weekly I-Lab classes to learn design-thinking tenets. They employ the practices to brainstorm and evaluate options during each project stage.

News

arianna-an-exemplary-menuhin-violin-scholar-for-eight-yearsWe periodically share a student’s accomplishments in the arts, music, or drama program, highlighting a unique performance or accomplishment.

This...
alumnus-uses-technology-to-do-global-goodAlumnus Zach Berke (class of ’94) -- an entrepreneur who has spent the last decade building and working with technology startups around the globe -- told...
third-graders-share-beliefs-through-podcastsAs part of third grade's examination of how beliefs are formed, each student relayed a specific belief that is important to him/her through essays they...