PSD’s innovative, choice-only* expeditionary learning school, featuring a small and close-knit student body, weeklong intensives, adventure trips, and fieldwork experiences 

• A welcoming, game-changing option for students who feel like they don’t fit in and students struggling in traditional school environments
• Experiential, inquiry-based learning including portfolio development, presentations of learning, and standards-based grading throughout k-12
• Equity focus and restorative justice approach to behavior management throughout k-12
• Smallest middle school in PSD, leaving no room for students to be overlooked
• Unique rites of passage, mixed-age learning and mentoring, and crew model for belonging and community-building
• Collaboration with Poudre Community Academy for sports
• Concurrent enrollment courses offered for earning college credit
• All seniors graduate with work-based learning project portfolios and capstone completions
• High School Career & Technical Education Pathways: Design & Multimedia, Natural Resources Management (the only program of its kind in CO), Outdoor Recreation (the only program of its kind in CO), PSD Career Tech Center Pathways

*Choice-only schools are not charter schools – they are PSD public schools that do not have a neighborhood boundary, so they require a School of Choice application to attend.

 

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