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Adolescents ask, "Who am I?" and “How can I make a difference?” The high school teachers at Green Meadow recognize that behind every question stands an inner quest. An interdisciplinary curriculum is the framework of this quest for meaning. For example, students discover mathematical principles underlying the study of poetry and music; they see the colors of a da Vinci painting reproduced in an optics experiment; they discover the evolving relationships of science, art, and religion in their study of history.

The adolescent longs to know the truths of the world and therefore rightfully questions everything and everyone. Idealism motivates them to know the world and find their own place in it. Therefore, developing the capacity for creative and independent thinking is paramount at the high school level. All the subjects presented in the high school at Green Meadow draw on the students’ capacity for analytical thinking and judgment. Thus, the students begin a more independent exploration of the world. Increasingly less impressionable as a group, they develop their own interests, strive for their own independent thoughts and endeavor to know themselves.

Our high school curriculum and the way it is taught nurture the budding mental abilities of students this age. Clear thinking is encouraged by rigorous study in all disciplines. In addition, every attempt is made to provide work that is not only conceptually challenging, but that provides opportunity for the practical application of the concepts studied. We emphasize action. This allows not only intellectual growth, but also an understanding of consequences.

The academic rigor of the lessons is always partnered with artistic experiences. Students have opportunities in all subjects to digest the content of their classes artistically, whether they are diagramming a chemistry experiment, drawing a form for projective geometry or creating a portrait for history class. This not only cultivates artistic skills, but perhaps more importantly, it deepens the students’ experience of each subject.

As is the case in the kindergarten and the lower school, the high school curriculum speaks to the developing human being. In the high school we seek to support the healthy growth of the human individuality, always with an awareness of the thinking, feeling and willing elements that constitute human wholeness. This wholeness, together with mobility of thought, artistic sensitivity and the courage to act upon their ideals, produces graduates who are prepared not only to meet the future but to shape it.

High School Tours

Student led tours are available on Friday afternoons from 12:45-1:15. To register for a tour, please contact Helen Morgan at 845-356-2514, x309 or hmorgan@gmws.org

To learn more about the High School, please contact the Admissions Office.