Where Learning Meets Life

At Countryside Day School, we believe how your child learns is as important as what your child learns. Countryside Day School does not approach “curriculum” as conventionally defined. Instead, academic learning and social emotional learning are intimately intertwined in classrooms that are living communities. Each classroom is a micro-society of students of different ages and teachers in which students are living what they learn. Much like 21st century life, students work independently and collaboratively to learn core academic content in engaging, challenging, and inspiring ways.

Rather than being presented with concepts to memorize, they are presented with questions to answer, challenges to overcome, and problems to solve. The freedom to pursue personal interests in the classroom coupled with the highest level of personal accountability results in students that have a strong sense of agency and resourcefulness about their work, a sense of empathy and respect for their peers, and sense of responsibility for their environment. In the broader sense, they are citizens of their school which affords endless practice and preparation for their futures as citizens of the world.