A School for 21st Century Learning
As parents and educators, we are committed to teaching our children traditional content and skills from familiar academic domains including Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, History, and Foreign Language. At IDS we have always enriched student experience with programs in physical education, studio arts, music and performing arts. Our commitment to each child’s social and emotional development is reflected in our embrace of the core principles of the Responsive Classroom.
As you explore our curriculum and peruse the pages of our website, you’ll notice the ways in which IDS students are encouraged to practice important 21st century skills of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and problem solving in all facets of their lives at school. Media and technology literacy and cross-cultural understanding are skills students use and develop daily as they undertake projects, present their work to one another, and perform together. By attending to community and relationships as we build academic strength, students learn to create, to problem-solve, and to collaborate. Throughout the curriculum - as likely in the Science classroom as on the soccer field or on the theatrical stage - IDS students come to know themselves as learners as they teach and learn from one another.
Our concurrent commitment to building 21st Century skills and to social and emotional growth, grounded in childhood, underscores the particular value of an IDS education for today’s and tomorrow’s students and leaders.