Intelligent Curriculum

Our annual break-a-thon is an important part of our intelligent curriculum. By seeing the world through another’s eyes, we are developing empathy and compassion which support our ideal of knowledge with humility.

The break-a-thon culminates with each student breaking ten boards to help raise money for charity. But the value of the project is found in what our students learn from the process leading up to the board breaks. Becoming aware of what charities we support and then taking steps to understand why we support them is really what this project is about.

We will be supporting three charities this year. Second Chance Animal Rescue Society has been one of our supported charities for many years now. What better way to develop empathy and compassion than taking the time to help out an animal in need?

The Northern Lights Wolf Centre is another charity we have supported for a few years. Learning how a keystone species like wolves can make or break an ecosystem goes a long way in helping us understand how much power each of us have when it comes to changing the world.

Rahul Bharti has been helping the homeless of Kathmandu for a very long time. In times of COVID the homeless are even more effected than the rest of us in that employment opportunities have completely disappeared and many are facing starvation. Rahul is on the front lines providing food, masks, and hand sanitizer for Katmandu’s homeless. The money we raise is going directly to people who are desperately in need.

“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.” - Barack Obama (b. 1961)