Upper School Curriculum Evolves

By Brady Wheatley

Rocky

Hill

Country Day’s teaching and learning centers on deep inquiry to prepare students to tackle real world problems through a combination of Project-Based Learning (PBL), Harkness methodology, research and student empowerment.

Our Upper School curriculum fosters opportunities for failure, adjustment, and student growth. Lessons are flexible by design, allowing students to forge important connections between distinct fields of study, and positively impact the world around them.

Advanced college-level courses challenge students who are at the top of their field, exposing our graduates to the rigors of college/university-bound careers, internships, and entrepreneurial work. “Border Crossings,” a dynamic and truly interdisciplinary English and History course studies the social and historical moments that produced our present era, along with the literature, art, music, and cultural artifacts that emerged from American social history. Finally, in “Ethics and Advanced Genetic Literacy,” students wrote a multinational accord after collaborating and considering the impact to society as it relates to gene editing, healthcare equity, national and international regulation, agriculture, and the marketplace.