THE STU GRADUATE What is the Stuart Hall Academic Program? What are Stuart Hall goals for our graduates?
Honorable & Ethical
Global Citizen
Creative Innovator
Critical Thinker
Effective Communicator
Effective Collaborator
Critical Thinker Inquire What do I want to know? Strategize What are my ultimate goals and what is my course of action? Synthesize How do I interpret, analyze, and evaluate information to formulate an answer to my questions? Reflect and Adapt What have I learned from my work and how do I use what I’ve learned?
Creative Innovator Foster Curiosity How do I learn more about what I already know? Innovate How can I use what I know in a new or different way? Imagine What original ideas do I have?
Effective Communicator Effective Communicator: Deliver Information How do I effectively articulate my thoughts and ideas? Receive Information How do I understand the meaning and intention of others? Demonstrate Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy How do I ethically and legally access, evaluate, apply, and manage the information available through technology? Demonstrate Media Literacy How do I effectively use the most appropriate media tools?
Global Citizen Demonstrate Civic Responsibility How do I actively participate at the local and global levels? Develop a World View How am I using my skills to understand global issues? Empathize How do I learn from and interact with people of diverse cultures and backgrounds?
Honorable & Ethical Demonstrate Integrity What choices do I make when no one is looking? Accept responsibility How do the choices I make affect my life and the lives of others? Take Initiative What skills do I use to begin or continue the learning process on my own? Be Resilient How do I work through frustration, adversity, or failure to continue toward my goal?
Effective Collaborator Demonstrate Leadership How do I positively influence group members? Show Respect How do I embrace diverse perspectives? Assume Accountability How do I assume shared responsibility within a group?
Maintain Flexibility How do I know when to lead and when to follow in order to reach a common goal?
• How do we implement this?
• How does this happen in the classroom? • Is this theory or practice?
How does this happen outside of the classroom?
Teacher Portal • The Stuart Hall Teacher Portal
Who are Our Future Graduates? Diverse, Intelligent, Forward-Thinkers • 16 countries, 14 states, 21 cultures (on two campuses) and 30 languages spoken • 303 total enrollment • 24% students of color
(compared to 22% nationally) • 85 boarders for 2015-16, a record high • 77 new students for 201516 • 24 children of faculty
• Azerbaijan • Cayman Islands
• China • Dominica • Ethiopia • Ghana • Italy • Iran • Libya • Mexico • Pakistan • Rwanda • South Africa • South Korea • Switzerland • Tanzania • Turkey • Uganda • Vietnam • Venezuela
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Arizona Delaware Florida Illinois Maryland Michigan Minnesota New Jersey New York North Carolina Texas Vermont Virginia D.C.
• Rockbridge
County • Lexington • Rockingham
County • Harrisonburg • Waynesboro • Staunton
• According to National Exceed Expectations
Association of Independent School Data, we are 21% more selective than the average independent school • Our acceptance rate was 47% for 2015-16, compared to NAIS averages nationally and in Virginia at roughly 70%.
Highly Selective Environment 2015-16
80.00%
70.00%
60.00%
50.00% 2015-16 40.00%
30.00%
20.00%
10.00%
0.00% Stuart Hall
All NAIS Member Schools
State - Virginia, NAIS members
What does this mean? Exceed Expectations
• That your children are in
class with the best of our applicant pool, that their experience in the classroom is richer, and that they are challenged by a group of likeminded peers that far out perform national standards. Congratulations!
The National Landscape
Congratulations!
• Stuart Hall is a highly competitive school in the
national ballgame. • In the past two years our “crossed applications” are most frequently with: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Avon Old Farms Canterbury School Cheshire Academy Choate Rosemary Hall Christchurch School Groton School Middlesex School Milton Academy Pomfret School Rumsey Hall School Salisbury School St. Anne’s Belfield St. Mark’s School Suffield Academy Tandem Friends School The Ethel Walker School The Hotchkiss School Westminster School (CT)
• This is important because Why is this important?
you made the right decision. • Your children go to the best
school in the area. • We want to thank you for
your choice and congratulate you! Congratulations!
• This is important because Why is this important?
you made the right decision. • Your children go to the best
school in the area. • We want to thank you for
your choice and congratulate you! Congratulations!
Why are we having these meetings?
Congratulations!
• We know you’re busy people, and we
don’t always have the chance to talk “big picture” with you. • We want you to feel involved and invested in our program. • We want you to share with your fellow parents what’s happening in the program. • We want for you to feel the same sense of community your children often praise. • Our next meeting will be in January and will discuss how we compare as a school to our public and private competitors: academically, culturally, and statistically.