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A Nuturing School Environment

What really makes us different from most other schools? We believe that the environment at Howard Gardner School for Discovery is a key factor. Everyone at HGSD is on a first name basis--teachers, students, and parents. Our school and small class size (most classes at HGSD have 18 or fewer students enrolled) insure that every student is a vital member of our school commumnity. In addition, classroom teachers are assigned an educational aide to help direct and maintain their highly individualized program. These are conscious choices we make to provide our students with a nurturing school environment. We strive to make children feel physically and emotionally safe as they learn. Our students actually enjoy attending school each day! 

Our Gardner Connection

We are proud of our association with the renowned Harvard Educational Psychologist and author of the groundbreaking "Frames of Mind, "Howard Gardner.  Gardner's multiple intelligence theory informs our work as we attempt to create a better environment for students to learn. We have adapted an apprenticeship model and for our curriculum based upon Gardner's writings that allows us to utilize community volunteers and resources to make our curriculum more authentic.  Our assessment practices also reflect an MI approach as we employ rubrics based upon apprenticeships to help evaluate our students' progress.  Recently, we have been asked to provide a chapter about our school in Gardner's upcoming new book on MI practices around the world.  The Howard Gardner School for Discovery was one of only twenty schools world wide invited to contribute.   You can learn more about Howard Gardner under the Links tab on our menu.  

Howard Gardner School for Discovery is non-sectarian and non-profit, and operates as an independent, self-supporting entity. The school admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender and nondisqualifying handicap or disability to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender or nondisqualifying handicap or disability in administration of its admission policies, educational policies, scholarship and loan programs and athletic and other school administered programs.