Phoenix School’s EarlyAct Club is on the job today. Brown Bay Community Service Day 3: Thursday, March 23
Phoenix School’s EarlyAct Club is on the job today. We join Taylor, a Friends of the Virgin Island volunteer, to give back to the National Park with a day of service. We head out early for Brown Bay to help clean the environment there. After a mile hike up a rocky,...
Discover Phoenix: An Experience-Driven Learning Community for TK-8th Graders
Phoenix is an experience-driven learning community that focuses on equipping TK-8th graders with the tools, thoughts, and experiences to become their best selves and active contributors to society. At Phoenix, we believe that learning is everywhere, and we have...
Discovering Annaberg and Cinnamon Bay Snorkeling on our USVI Travel Study Trip – Day 2 Wednesday, March 22
We travel back in time today, walking in the footprints of Annaberg sugar plantation slaves. From the moment we pass by the foundation ruins of slave huts, hovels too small to imagine anyone living there easily, we question history. We try to imagine hillsides...
Discovering the Tropics: A Middle School Travel Study Program in St. John, USVI – Day 1: Tuesday, March 21
As we made maps to trace our journey from Boston to Atlanta and over the backbone of St. Thomas, we knew we were in for an adventure. We boarded the Redhook ferry, crossed rolling water with whitecaps waving at us all the way to Cruz Bay on St. John, and wound our way...
“If it’s easy or you’re too comfortable, you’re not growing.”
When kids begin their Phoenix education, it often involves a process of unlearning common beliefs about mistakes. In a traditional education model, students are largely confined to the classroom and presented with standardized content which they are expected to...
Launch Zone: Summer Adventures
At the end of June, summer adventures explored aerodynamics and propulsion during Launch Zone. On Monday the weather kept us at The Phoenix School. Before it started raining everyone was still able to go out on a walk; they collected things like dandelion seeds and...
Purpose Driven Curriculum
Tired of seeing your child come home with worksheets? What would it look like if your child experienced a Purpose-Driven Curriculum that presented real-world problems for kids to solve? Kids embrace curiosity and love for learning when they can make connections...
Is your child getting bored at school?
Imagine a school that…. has a purpose-driven curriculum intentionally shifts focus to ensure challenge + engagement collaborates with individuals groups, and organizations to improve our community and the world emphasizes the process Phoenix has been practicing...
Phoenix Summer Adventure Kids
This past week the Phoenix Summer Adventure Kids went on adventures in the Salem Willows. The theme of the week was Spies in the Wild, all about exploring how animals hide in nature. Early in the morning, the kids started off by playing games to get ready for the day...
Martial Arts for Teamwork, Collaboration and Skill Building.
On Wednesday of this year's Adventure Week, the Phoenix Kids went to do a workshop with two self-defense instructors at Forged Martial Arts Studio. The kids did some exercises, some games, and some drills to help them do better teamwork and learn about self-defense....