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INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL

Welcome to Indian Springs School, where some of the finest students from across Birmingham, throughout the country, and around the world come together to learn by living, exploring, and partnering with accomplished faculty as part of a supportive community of scholars and individuals. We opened our doors in 1952, and since that time our creative campus, curriculum, and community have set us apart.

Our boarding and day program brings together a diverse and vibrant cohort of just under 300 students in grades 8 through 12, on a 350-acre campus where nature serves as both inspiration and laboratory. Students from 8 states and 4 countries work together with faculty in a model of shared governance to discover their passions by taking part in everything from athletics to our acclaimed choir and student-run scholastic, service, and special-interest clubs.

Our faculty are dedicated to teaching and mentoring young people, and nearly all have advanced degrees. Our beautiful, cuttingedge classrooms and innovative independent study options combine to enhance the great teaching that opens doors to new ideas and new possibilities.

Led for its first 20 years by forward-thinking educator Dr. Louis E. “Doc” Armstrong, Indian Springs has roots in the progressive educational philosophy of John Dewey, who inspired our motto: Learning through Living. Our mission is to develop in students a love of learning and creativity, a sense of integrity and moral courage, and an ethic of participatory citizenship with respect for individuality and independent thought.

Indian Springs aims to connect, value, and include young people whose origins, identities, beliefs, and experiences reflect the rich and

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instructive diversity of our global society. That means learning at Indian Springs is both an individual pursuit and a collective endeavor, in which we deeply understand our world and one another.

One of our best-known alumni, the author and educator John Green ’95, has said that Indian Springs is where “all at once, I became a learner...because I found myself in a community of learners.” Indian Springs exists far beyond our striking campus; it is a passionate extended community of alumni, parents, and friends that spans the globe and generations. We invite you to imagine how you might be transformed by, and contribute to, our extraordinary community of learners.

We invite you to learn more about Indian Springs by engaging with us at a virtual open house or on a guided virtual tour. Our virtual open houses are designed to provide prospective students and families with the opportunity to learn more about the admission process, meet and hear from some of our accomplished faculty and students, and discover what makes the Indian Springs School environment so special. Although our campus is currently closed to visitors, our guided virtual tour allows you to check out our 350-acre campus from the comfort of your home. Go to www.indiansprings.org/admission to schedule your visit today.

SAINT ROSE ACADEMY

Saint Rose Academy has an incredible group of students, parents, faculty, and staff who are all personally invested in giving of themselves completely to make this year a great success! The faculty has worked tirelessly to continue teaching their students both remotely and in-person since the start of the pandemic. Students have been diligent about following the new school protocol for distancing, washing hands, and wearing masks properly. In short, the students have adjusted to the new norms with grace and kindness.

As Saint Rose Academy continues to pray for an end to this pandemic, students are grateful to the Lord for bringing good out of suffering. A few of the blessings received this year include an increased awareness in our children of the need to turn to the Lord who is always with them; gratitude for faculty and families and for the gift of a Catholic education; a concern for each other’s health and love of activities that keep us healthy, such as outdoor activities and keeping hands clean.

Saint Rose has had an outpouring of resources in response to the times. Our parents have stepped up to assist in many ways: Tortorigi Construction cleared fields around the school to provide more outdoor space and classrooms. In the Primary Building which houses our 3, 4, and 5-year-olds, they repaired the surface of the parking lot and fenced in areas around the school for security and safety. Green Home Solutions provided COVIDcertified cleaning of classrooms needing deepcleaning at a hospital-grade level. Parent doctors

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and nurses trained the faculty and provided feedback to administrators in deciding protocols. Finally, Saint Rose Academy benefitted by public funding for health and instructional materials to welcome the students back to school safely and with the same standard of excellence, their families have come to expect.

Yes, the 2020-2021 school year is a year of many differences and changes, but Saint Rose Academy is up for the challenge. Saint Rose is grateful for the opportunity to be a sign of hope in the midst of uncertainty and thanks God daily for bringing such goodness and generosity out of difficult situations.

Saint Rose Academy is located at 1401 22nd Street South in Birmingham. The school is operated by the Dominican Sisters of the St. Cecilia Congregation based in Nashville, TN. To find out more about the school and its 3K to 8th-grade programs visit their website www.strosebhm.org or call (205) 933-0549.

Saint Rose Academy, a home of exceptional intellectual and spiritual formation, challenges its children to embrace truth, uphold goodness, and contemplate beauty in the Dominican Catholic tradition.

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THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL

The mission of The Altamont School is to There are many opportunities for students to improve the fabric of society by graduating develop multiple talents by participating in arts, world compassionate, well-educated individuals capable languages, community service, clubs, class projects, of independent thinking and innovative ideas. To and athletics. Students also benefit from a 1-to-1 this end, the school attracts, nurtures, and challenges laptop program, an advanced computer science students whose commitment to truth, knowledge, curriculum, and unparalleled service leadership and honor will prepare them not only for the most opportunities through Altamont’s C. Kyser Miree rigorous college programs, but also Ethical Leadership Center. for productive lives. Altamont is located five

Altamont is a small family of minutes from downtown approximately 360 students in Birmingham on the crest of Red grades 5-12 with socio-economic, Mountain. Our campus features ethnic, and religious diversity. Cabaniss-Kaul Center for the Altamont is a good choice for Arts, Pharo Art Studio, Lacey-Day students excelling in their Photography Studio, newly present schools who want renovated athletics spaces, greater breadth and challenge GRADES: 5-12 two science wings, a study in all areas of school life. 4801 Altamont Road South garden and a 14,000-volume We combine an intensive, Birmingham, AL 35222 library. Experience all that college preparatory academic altamontschool.org Altamont offers by attending program with a personalized (205) 879-2006 an Open House or scheduling college search program. a campus tour.

Join us for a virtual Open House! Sunday, Oct. 18 Learn more about The Altamont School, one of the nation’s premier college preparatory schools for students in grades 5-12. RSVP: www.altamontschool.org/admissions

CREATIVE MONTESSORI

Creative Montessori School (CMS) recently — plus practical knowledge such as conflict celebrated 50 years of excellence in Montessori resolution, social responsibility and environmental education. Founded in 1968 by Barbara R. stewardship. It is how they learn and how they Spitzer, CMS is Birmingham’s first Montessori feel about learning that is quite different and truly school; the first local private school to be racially valuable. integrated from inception; and the first to offer Montessori classrooms foster intellectual science, world geography, and foreign language to curiosity by facilitating individualized, preschoolers. independent, purposeful work within a peaceful

Convenient to downtown Birmingham and setting. The result is children who fall in love with over-the-mountain suburbs, CMS offers an learning. Students are allowed to learn at their unparalleled private school education in a warm own pace under caring and thoughtful guidance and loving Montessori atmosphere with a focus on of a professionally trained Montessori teacher. the individual child. Our teachers value each child’s CMS enrolls 250 students from 25 zip codes, unique potential and nurture students’ inherent located on a 2.5-acre campus in Homewood. ability to meet challenges with Affordable tuition makes divergent thinking skills, self- exceptional education accesconfidence, adaptability and resilience. Children at CMS learn GRADES: Pre-K to 6 2800 Montessori Way Homewood, AL 35209 cmskids.org sible to families with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Prospective parents are invited the same things that children (205) 879-3278 to call the administration in a traditional school learn office to schedule a tour.

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GROVE SCHOOL

Mandy Fox first dreamed 19 years ago of starting a school whose mission and vision centers around finding a child’s strengths and using those to bring learning to life. So many schools focus on children’s weaknesses and improving them. The Grove School — the result of Mandy’s dream that opened in August 2019 — believes that God speaks to our strengths and uses those to build up our weak areas.

By focusing on finding the dream that God has given them, The Grove School seeks to plant children in the life-giving source, God, and help them accomplish the dreams that God has given them.

The Grove School allows children to learn at their own pace while also challenging them. Students will master standards according to what they are ready to learn in the progression

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of our curriculum, not based on a grade level system because of age. Students move through standards based on readiness. If they are advanced in one area, they will be able to move beyond their grade level and work on the standards for that level. A list of standards for each level and the ones your child has mastered will be shared with the parent several times throughout the year through our online reporting system as well as Mastery Journals.

Enrollment is open year-round. Parents can apply at learningatthegrove.com/admissions.

HIGHLANDS SCHOOL

For over 60 years, Highlands School has served With over 340 students, Highlands School is as Birmingham’s infant through eighth-grade small and nimble by design, which allows us to progressive, independent school. At Highlands, adapt quickly in this ever-changing landscape. we prepare our students to adapt and thrive in Our intimate size allows us to be more agile changing and unpredictable environments - and and quick to adjust to any disruptions while not this year is no exception. In the face of many compromising on our mission or the safeguards uncertainties, as we continue to navigate the global needed for health and safety. pandemic, families across Birmingham turn to Our student-centered environment motivates Highlands to provide structure and a personalized students to take ownership of their learning, pushing educational experience for their students. them to take risks in a supportive setting and in

Our commitment to whole-child pursuit of greater understanding. In development ensures that every whatever community our students Highlands student is healthy, safe, find themselves, their time at connected, engaged, and supported Highlands provides them with the – whether learning on campus or skills needed to lead confidently, virtually. Our curriculum and think critically, advocate community foster the qualities compassionately, collaborate of perseverance and compassion GRADES: 4K-8 effectively, and communicate in our students, giving them the 4901 Old Leeds Road impactfully. Highlands students tools to excel throughout their Birmingham, AL 35213 are pioneers marked by their educational, professional, and highlandsschool.org global awareness and passion for personal endeavors. (205) 956-9731 learning.

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