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Strategic Priorities
…summer courses for younger teenagers, educator expeditions, alumni adventures, corporate training, a teaching fellowship program, and more. Our experiences immerse students in an engaging, challenging educational setting emphasizing leadership training….
College Readiness
After Alzar School, our alumni go on to some of the finest universities and colleges around the world. As the Semester Schools Network notes, “Many colleges recognize semester school graduates…
Discovering Place in Unfamiliar Territory
…text. Darby: “I find my own flaws carved into their bark; tattoos unwanted but received. It comforts me to be surrounded by things that can’t cover their imperfections. They can’t…
¿Cómo se dice…?
Being down in Chile has allowed us to connect curriculum to life. In Spanish class, all students are working to complete a series of conversational challenges with locals. These tasks…
Mid Fall Science Update
…horizontal range of the shot? *Submit me the answer at Sam@alzar.org and I will send you a post card from Chile. Don’t forget your address!! Pretty easy right? Well, there…
Pop Quiz: what makes this reaction go BOOM?
Welcome to Chemistry class at the Alzar School. In out last unit we have been studying types of reactions and a crazy little thing called stoichiometry (for those of you…
The More We Know about Languages, the More Questions We Have to Ask
…to their assigned gender in that language. The answer is yes. For example, the word for bridge is die Brücke – a feminine noun – whereas in Spanish, it’s masculine;…
Family Weekend – Fall 2020
Student Leaders facilitate this week’s community meeting. This week at Alzar School, students and staff are preparing campus for an event that feels familiar and yet quite novel: a virtual…
Wondering why and how…
…this week for their first unit, which asks them to ask and to answer a “what if” question that could have huge implications for American history. (Examples might include the…
A Meaningful Life
…basics of rolling Lulu, Daniela, Laura and Liam test their linguistic prowess Beyond these individual examples of living life meaningfully, as a larger group of 20 students, this group collectively…