We grow planners. 🤔 🎪This week, our Elementary and Middle School learners begin the plans for a fifty person hour long event! ✅ Each learner, ...
When a challenge has real stakes And failure becomes the teacher, Victory means a whole lot.
The rules of the Rube Goldberg project: 🔧 Selects your tools 📏 Measure a 2x2m space 🗼 Start at 1m high 🔩 Include five simple machines 🥎 Be successful in ...
What’s the most important ingredient in the recipe? 🧑🍳 Bringing home to school. 🏡 Our youngest learners made homes for their #squishmellowsand homes for each other ...
We found a way to capture the first steps of our next great adventure: our 9️⃣th year of… 🥰 joy, 🪞 confrontation, 🦸 character building,💭 learning, and 🤩 fun. ...
He has his first school tour under his belt! A proud moment of confidence and initiative. 👏 The family gave him a 10/10, saying he ...
A big thank you to the young volunteers we had over the summer! They… 🧹 organised rooms, ✔ audited badges, ↪ discussed systems,🖌️ designed badge logos,🙋♂️ ran tours, ...
How do you bring research and history to life? 📜 One of our Middle School groups decided they wanted to experience the trojan horse plan ...
Two of our learners are proudly published! 📚 After running real businesses with real money, they wrote an article for the Wortley Villager on what ...
When Acton Academy says it is learner-driven, we mean it. Here is a powerful testament to that. When we meet together, owners from the far reaches ...
Our future is in good hands when we support our young entrepreneurs! 🙌 Bravely displaying their work during a morning market, these young business owners ...
Our e-ship project winners received one of their prizes today: a Q&A hour with a real-world entrepreneur and business management professor: Richie Bloomfield, co-owner of ...
A big character callout to David at Ichabod Escape for hosting our Middle School. You inspired our young people on their own mission to transform ...
The new Explore Studio leadership system came to life today. 🌱 I channeled my best Peter Mansbridge in hosting a leadership candidate debate. A learners ...
Sometimes the most difficult moments are the most important. Against momentary feelings of nihilism and victimhood in his community, a Middle School learner prepared a ...
Surprise! The library has become an escape room. 🫢 This week our Middle School received a message from a time travelling PI, revealing that a ...
Each of our major projects— called Quests— end with an event that showcases learning in action. 🎬 For Anthropology, our youngest learners had quite the ...
Our young people brought their business ideas to life during our Entrepreneurship Quest! 👔 During a school fair, our community heard their business plans and ...
Our elementary studio took full advantage of their Poetry Reading landing on Valentine’s Day. They had a formal dress code, garlands, black tablecloth, (real) candles, ...
Our youngest learners hosted a black-tie art exhibition! 👔 Inspired by many distinct artists over the course of the last month and a half, they ...
Our Middle Schoolers opened Explore Medical Centre (EMC) this afternoon to a group of nine parent patients that needed urgent care. 🏥 Participants were given ...
We were so lucky to have a critical care doctor from a local hospital visit us in the Middle School today. He spoke on the ...
Look out disease! You have met your match. 🦠 Our Middle Schoolers will be turning their classroom into an emergency department, ready to triage patients, ...
An analogy on the power of a learner-driven school: “She doesn’t grow plants. The plants grow themselves. Her job is to create conditions for the ...
Check out these posters from our Infinity School lawyers! At times, the enforcement of our peer-made contracts are unfair in some way: 📝 A rule ...
Given only a map and a compass, our learners were challenged to find an overlook of our beautiful city. We are so grateful to have ...
Meet four of our learners that were part of receiving the highest score in @infinityschoolca history! 🏆 Each six weeks, our learners put on an ...
Two of our younger learners are running our aftercare program for the day. They have taken attendance and led a discussion on what their peers ...
Forensic Science Quest concluded with our classroom department hiring a team of parents to solve a brand new crime: Mr Eric disappeared! 🫢 Our Middle ...
Major character callout to this group of learners that presented their classroom currency loaning system to an expert in finance. They discussed… 📝 the terms ...
How do you bring the scientific method to life? 🥼 ✈️ Tell them the stories of real heroes that bravely said no to gravity 🌄 ...
“In a Montessori community, the children learn that every member of that community is equally valuable. That everybody brings something that nobody else has. That ...
Our elementary school was excited and proud to see the first showing of their LipDub at Hyland Cinema! We thank the cinema for this awesome ...
A simple practice: we fix what breaks. Our Middle School learners get dedicated time and a budget for a passion project of their choice. A ...
It all began with one question in our Middle School: “how do we help bring this community together?” Having witnessed the power of a game ...
Let them build their vision. Simply give them the parts. Let it fall. They will make it stronger. We cannot expect them to learn enough ...
A discussion with one of our youngest learners to the best of my recollection: “Mr Eric, is this direction south?” “What made you think it ...
How does the year begin in a learner-driven school? 🏁 Instead of premade rules, it begins with a foundation. 🧱 Our Middle School bravely explores ...
Let me tell you a secret. Each and everyone of you is a genius with the potential to change the world. You can be a ...
When school is an adventure, this is how you enter its doors.
During a recent tour with parents interested in our program, I was asked this common question, “What prompted you to start this school?” I’ve answered ...
