Academic Excellence: Our Approach
What a joy it is to see
bright-eyed, happy students
loving learning and deeply understanding what they learn. Within
a culture of caring and respect, students tend to bloom in every
way, especially in academics. The result is a community of life-long
learners.
Excellence without stress. Much
of the rote memorization, standardized testing, and hyper-pressure
that is commonly applied to elementary school children nowadays
is actually detrimental to their long-term development and success,
in academics and in life.
At Living Wisdom School, children are taught to be independently
curious, enthusiastic, and disciplined in all their endeavors.
We prepare our students to do well in standardized testing, and
we assign ample homework, but at the same time, we know that children
develop at different rates. Forcing a child to learn too fast
may constrict or bypass vital stages in their development.
Other children need to advance more rapidly than the average,
and they are given ample opportunity and encouragement to do so
at Living Wisdom School. Our low student-teacher ratio makes it
possible for each child to receive individual attention, every
day. As a result, students are able to thrive, but without the
stress that usually accompanies high performance.
How each child's performance
is evaluated. The children receive portfolio assessment
and narrative evaluations, both of which are universally recognized
by high schools and middle schools. Because our students are trained
to love learning, they perform well in standardized tests and
are accepted by top private schools.
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