10:00 AM–3:00 PM
Monday
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday
Wednesday — self-study day
How academic subjects are taught
We don’t call our educational environment a "school," because our goal isn’t limited to covering the academic curriculum. What matters to us is working with the whole person — helping them grow up, become better, and feel like a valued member of the community.
Individual educational path
- Close work with a tutor who helps the teenager understand themselves, their interests and wishes, and build their academic and career path on that basis.
- A focus on independence and self-organization. We work on intrinsic motivation and fully hand over responsibility for learning to the teenager.
- Parents are part of the team. It’s important to discuss expectations and concerns in advance and set shared goals. Our team includes a highly qualified psychologist experienced in both family relationships and educational psychology.
Academic program and hard skills
- We identify subjects that everyone needs to master to some required extent: math, native language, foreign language. We closely track progress in these subjects together with the students.
- We set aside time in the schedule for covering the required curriculum and preparing for assessments.
- We help each student find their own learning style: How do I learn best? What helps me? We use self-assessment tools.
Interdisciplinary immersions and soft skills
- We study the natural sciences, humanities, and technical and applied subjects through immersion in one big theme, where we can see how human knowledge connects.
- How deep we go into each area depends on the students’ interest. We let the teenagers take the wheel, choosing the route of their own educational journey. We give them the chance to try different ways of learning and show that learning can be fun and engaging — and, most importantly, driven by their own initiative.
- We use project-based methods and show the connection between knowledge and practical activity.
Creative and cultural environment
- Art and creative self-expression help process inner changes. We explore various forms and practices that help shape one’s own ideas and feelings (music, literature, painting, language, theater...)
- We love trips, hikes, and taking part in organizing events and other projects. Our classroom is the whole world — it isn’t limited to the school walls.
- A young entrepreneurs’ club, where we learn to understand our own potential and our value within the adult community.
Physical and mental development
- Movement is life. We talk about the body and health, and look for our own way to stay fit and healthy. We don’t hand out ready-made recipes — instead, we think, try things out, and experiment together.
- Development workshops for teenagers (emotional intelligence, logic, ethics, meetings with psychologists and specialists as needed, conflict-resolution strategies...)
How do we assess progress?
We don’t have grades, a teacher’s grade book, or report cards, the way most of us remember from our own childhoods. Even so, we’ll spend a lot of time on how to soberly and fairly assess one’s own work and results, using national and international standards as a reference. How do you accept mistakes and what do you do with them? How do you set the next learning goals? What should you base your self-assessment on?