Profile: The Workshop School
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We’ve all had the experience of truly purposeful, authentic learning and know how valuable it is. Educators are taking the best of what we know about learning, student support, effective instruction, and interpersonal skill-building to completely reimagine schools so that students experience that kind of purposeful learning all day, every day.
The Workshop School is a high school run in partnership between a nonprofit and the School District of Philadelphia. Projects rather than subjects drive the curriculum and the schedule, in which all students are expected to take at least two projects through four stages by the time they graduate. Three core principles of the school model are to put the work first, trust students to make decisions, and make the most out of failure.