New Roots Curriculum:
Education for Just and Sustainable Communities
The New Roots curriculum will nurture young peoples' ability to use their skills as world citizens to promote sustainability. They’ll learn to create democratic, green economies that consider all peoples’ needs and restore the natural world.
Our cross-disciplinary, experience-based curriculum will help students see the intersection of social and ecological systems, cultivating a practical intellect that produces solutions to the dilemmas and contradictions inherent in the 21st-century.
Grounded in rigorous academics, students will partner with community organizations to meet critical real-life problems. They’ll use democratic decision-making and teamwork skills to take action together with members of their local community. They might, for example, support neighborhood planning teams, restore wetlands, participate in climate-related research, develop local food enterprises, help plan neighborhoods, or retrofit low-income housing with green technology.
Blending careful instruction, global perspective, and an abiding commitment to the local community, New Roots School will act on a vision of a sustainable and democratic future. Transforming high school education at its roots, we will create a living laboratory for educators and community members who want to transition to a way of teaching and living with potential to turn the tide.
Read the complete proposed curriculum included in our charter school application:
New Roots School Curriculum Overview (PDF)
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