List of 3 items.

• Our Learning Outcomes

  
  Our students will navigate and shape a world dramatically different than the one their teachers entered.

  
  

  With the world changing quickly, education must also adapt so that our graduates are well-prepared to thrive in a future we cannot anticipate.

  
  

  During the 2017-2018 school year, a committee of Drew faculty and staff spent significant time thinking through the skills and mindsets we believe will prepare our students to carve their own paths through a changing world.

  Intellectual Engagement: A Drew graduate actively engages in the pursuit of knowledge in order to fulfill a deep commitment to learning about the world, themself, and their place within it.
  
  Creative and Critical Thinking: A Drew graduate explores, questions assumptions, applies an investigative lens, and utilizes a rich imagination in order to envision and express innovative approaches to challenges.
  
  Communication: A Drew graduate cultivates effective written, spoken, and visual expression, and understands the power of quiet and listening, in order to engage in open and substantive exchange with those around them.
  
  Global Perspective: A Drew graduate demonstrates curiosity about the diversity of the human experience in order to pursue an egalitarian, multicultural perspective that values interconnectedness, justice, and peace.
  
  Integrity: A Drew graduate displays honesty and compassion for fellow humans in order to approach each encounter with self-knowledge, kindness, and empathy.
  
  Balance: A Drew graduate practices mental, physical, social, and emotional wellness in order to maintain a productive and fulfilling life of learning, growth, and meaning.

• Our Process

  
  The curriculum review process at Drew is rooted in eight working teams:

  • English
  • Social Studies
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • World Languages
  • Visual Arts
  • Performing Arts
  • Socio-Emotional Learning

  
  

  The chair of each team collaborates closely with our Academic Dean,  as they drive toward the conviction that students need deep understandings for their knowledge to belong to them, to be alive for them, long after they graduate.

• Our Consultant: Understanding By Design

  
  Good learning requires good coaching. As we engage in this process of curriculum review, we’re working with the experts at Understanding By Design (UBD), foremost experts on curriculum review who coach schools worldwide.  Read more about the Understanding By Design team and their work here.
  
  Drew is partnering with Sandy Kleinman of the UBD team, who is guiding us through this process of reflection through campus visits and close collaboration with Drew's Deans.

  
  It is important to note is that the UBD team does not tell a school what to teach; instead, the UBD team provides a lens through which a school brings into focus what it wants to teach. UBD will not shape Drew’s curriculum or encourage us to teach students any particular thing. As our coach Sandy Kleinman tells Drew’s teachers, her team’s goal is only “understanding, by design”. Entirely up to Drew is what exactly Drew's students will understand.