Torch - Spring 2014

Institute at Havergal

Forum for Change and Student Institute Team By Ann Peel, Director, Institute at Havergal

As a school, we have students ask themselves: “ What kind of world do I want? ” This question frames our programming and whole-school dialogue. The Institute at Havergal is tasked with bringing the school’s strategic pillars of global capability and self-efficacy to life by giving students the global knowledge and skills they need to be successful anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Our project is the development of agency: teaching for understanding. “The true test of understanding is the ability to transfer learning.” —Stephen Katz The Institute enables students to experience impact by working on self-selected and directed real-world, real-time problem solving. Through the Forum for Change and the Student Institute Team (SIT) in the Junior School, we provide the opportunity for students to practice shaping their world with relatively low-risk projects and activities—to learn by doing—and support them as they transfer their learning.

People, Perspective, Partnership To address problems, we work with people, enriched by multiple perspectives, in partnership (or collaboration).

Our goal is to support young women who approach their world with curiosity, who embrace learning from failure, who seek originality, who are committed to collaboration, who enjoy working with those unlike themselves and who value good questions.

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