Everglades Study Field Trip Day 2: Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Everglades Study Field Trip Day 2: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 With a late sleep in after last night’s late adventure, we gladly devoured Kyle’s and Jim’s pancakes before heading back to see what bright sunshine would reveal that darkness hid from us only hours before....
The Alligators Get the Right of Way – The Phoenix School Grades 6-8 Go to the Everglades
The Phoenix School's 6th-8th graders recently got back from the Florida Everglades and have spent the last two weeks going over their research and discussing what they had learned on the journey. Since the Kindergarten through fifth graders had also completed a...
Everglades Study Field Trip – Day 1: Monday, March 25, 2019
Everglades Study Field Trip Day 1: Monday, March 25, 2019 Phoenix School kids gathered like squawking anhingas waiting to check in for their flight to the Everglades for a week of science and adventure. Upon landing, Kyle and Jim met Mike, Barbara and 8 Phoenix kids,...
Phoenix Airlines Flight 406 – Destination Everglades
The classroom was full of the hustle and bustle of children shuffling quickly through a makeshift security line. “Take off your shoes and your belt and put all of your personal belongings in the bin to go through the scanner,” one fifth grade student said to a third...
Phoenix Philosophy
Founder of the Phoenix School provides a window into the unique and dynamic approach to the academic philosophy behind this K-8th grade school. You heard it first here on Find out about Phoenix! Tell us what content you want to learn about next?
Why We Travel With Students.
What is the importance of students doing research for their travel study programs during grades 6th -8th grade? Join Mistral and James (7th grade) to learn about Phoenix travel program curriculum.
Live from the Everglades
News from the Everglades Travelers... If you didn't catch us LIVE on Facebook today, here's the link! We Facetimed with our older students from the Anhinga Trail at Everglades National Park and recorded it live on Facebook. It was really great to hear from them, even...
Imagining and Examining the Everglades at the Phoenix School
Imagining and Examining the Everglades at the Phoenix School by Joey Phoenix Spring is finally here and the students at The Phoenix School are gearing up for their annual adventure. This year, they’re trekking down to the Florida Everglades. Trips like these have been...
Just How Do We Teach Math and Science During the Week of Thanksgiving?
At Phoenix we always start Thanksgiving week by cooking, in multi age teams of students ranging from K-8th grade. These connections allow students to learn real life and valuable lessons from the variety of teachable moments. The Thanksgiving holiday reminds us of...
Trails and Sails 2018 is here!
Each year Essex National Heritage Area opens its “doors” to our county, over two weekends, to us all, for Trails & Sails. At the heart of the Phoenix philosophy, “Learning in an Adventure” and “Anywhere Can be a Classroom”, so…we ask that you all engage in learning together and participate in a Family Extended Learning Assignment.