The Ascend Studio (High School)
High School Reimagined. A Launchpad to the World.
The world in front of our children is radically different, yet, schools have not changed.
Graduates from traditional schooling often feel they were prepared for a world that is long gone, without a sense of who they are, except for a story that following the path was enough.
The truth is that the status quo is not enough. Complacency is not an option.
Our institutes, organisations, and challenges require something greater. They require new perspectives and real vision.
We are launching a high school that tells a different story:
—Agency is hard but real
—Responsibility and growth come from the self, peers, and mentor that know you best
—Disruption and confrontation are productive
—Learning cannot be separated from the world— experience, with guidance, is the best teacher
—We all have unique and distinct callings to contribute to the world. Our success does not always look the same
—Education is a search for yourself and your superpowers
Want to join our launch? Learn more about the studio below and complete an audition.
Community
A Second Home
The Ascend Studio will be the leaders of our JK- Grade 10 microschool, right here in London Ontario.
Working as a close-knit group, they will draft a contract to hold each other accountable, collaborate on real-world projects evaluated by actual experts, hold regular town halls to solve community challenges, and build a culture that fosters ownership, intentionality, and belonging.
Go at your Own Pace
Modular Learning
At our school, learners progress at their own level and at their own pace. They progress after mastering something.
This means never being limited by the grade of their age, nor having to move on before they are ready, and always having a mentor in a mixed-aged class to go to for support.
Whole Person Education
Learning to be
Our aim is to help foster independent, capable, resourceful, and critical individuals that can become their own teacher.
The aim is to build executive functioning, effective processes, healthy habits, and strong character.
Each day is bookended by discussions that explore the concepts, tools, processes, and habits they need to navigate the human experience and world.
Real World Learning
Learning to do
We strive to connect the real world into everything we do.
Our young people have built a currency, judicial, and democratic system right into their school!
Their work is evaluated by experts in the field, and they devote time each year to an apprenticeship.
Find Your Calling
The Mission
Our mission is to help our young people find their superpower, and from that, their calling. This is about getting a sense of who they are and how they can contribute to the world around them.
This means celebrating all types of learners for what they can contribute. The orderly and the creative; the detail-oriented and the disruptors; the connectors and the challengers.
This is explored with a Next Great Adventure, something our young people embark on throughout the Ascend Studio.
We will be building a network of experts in the region to be available to our young people and their journeys.
Audition
Join our High School launch!
Do you have a child going into grade 8, 9, or 10 this September?
A child who is a self-starter, always deep in a passion project or twelve minutes into a video on trying something new?
A child being held back by the pace of the class or the lack of support? Curious, driven, and always learning by doing?
If the answer to these is yes, share our school with your child, and take a seat and go through our socials to see what learning looks like at Infinity School (@infinityschoolca on instagram)!
Think we could be a good fit?