Deeper Learning
The “Deeper Learning” Model
Our upper school program is based on the “deeper learning” model, something that is new to the Bainbridge educational landscape. Deeper learning is a pedagogical approach that threads through all aspects of our program, including mold-breaking core academic classes, Electives, co-curriculars like Clubs and Advisory, and signature programs like Panoramas. Our high school program is based in a fundamental optimism for the possibilities and potential for the high school years to shape a lifetime.
Our deeper learning program:
- Creates purpose in the lives of high schoolers by bringing their identity to the center of learning so that they connect what they are doing to how they think of themselves (doing science vs being a scientific thinker, a citizen scientist, etc.).
- Emphasizes meaning and choice, cultivates community, and provides students with ongoing opportunities for apprenticeship.
- Redefines rigor not as “workload” but as sustained powerful learning that is also joyful, personalized, and meaningful.
- Creates an iterative cycle of inquiry to continually ask students what they need, think, and see. (We believe that students are, in the words of Jal Mehta, “penetrating ethnographers of their settings,” capable of astute insights that articulate their school experience – as long as we ask and listen.)
