HIGH SCHOOL Program Highlights 2021-2022 - The Lab School
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T H E L A B S C H O O L O F WA S H I N G T O N
HIGH SCHOOL
Program Highlights 2021-2022
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hrough a unique arts-centered curriculum, the WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO:
High School offers engaging courses that build • be problem solvers, collaborators, and
the academic skills needed for college and career creative thinkers.
success, while simultaneously promoting organization, • be self-aware and self-directed, take risks,
study, and test-taking skills. confront challenges, and stretch themselves.
• know that we’ll be there to support them.
The Lab School’s program is guided by the principles • discover their strengths and passions
put forth by John Dewey who promoted a progressive and develop strategies to tackle what’s
education based on a variety of authentic learning challenging.
experiences that engage the natural curiosity of students.
“My ADHD actually makes me feel very gifted because Lab
School has taught me how to use it to my advantage. Sometimes
I think I have a secret weapon that others don’t have.”
— Lab School Student
OUR ARTS-CENTERED CURRICULUM
The arts — central to our students’ experience at Lab — encourage students to tap into their creativity and stretch their
imaginations. Students gain confidence and discover new ways to solve problems and express themselves, as they learn to think like
artists and view the world in alternative ways.
Courses
Advanced Technical Digital Filmmaking Graphic Design/Yearbook Pre-Calculus
Theatre
Digital Photography Health & Physical Conditioning Principles of Engineering
Advanced Theatre
Drawing History of People of Color in Probability/Statistics
Design
America
Drawing, Painting, & Sculpture Rhetoric
Algebra I
Intensive Introduction to Stagecraft
Algebra II Robotics
Earth Science Jewelry Making/Metalsmithing
American Sign Spanish I, II, III, IV
English 9 - Finding Our Voice Latin II, III
Language I Studio Art
English 10 - Being Informed & Linear Algebra
Ancient World History Trigonometry
Effecting Change
Modern World History
Biology US History
English 11 - American Literature
Music Perspectives
Calculus
English 12 - World Literature
Music/Rock Band Class sizes range from
Chemistry 4 to 13 students.
Environmental Science
Paper and Beyond
Conditioning
Geometry
Physical Science
DC History
Government
Physics
Our myriad High School clubs, extra-curricular activities, and leadership opportunities offer students more ways — beyond the
STA N TEC A R C H I TECTURE / TOM HOL DSWORT H P HOTO GRA PHY
classroom — to explore their interests, take risks, develop new areas of interest, and master skills.
CLUBS, AFFINITY GROUPS, ACTIVITIES, AND
LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Options include:
• Affinity Groups
• Family Structure/Adoption, Race, Gender, Ethnicity,
Religion
• Art/Fashion
• Business/Stocks
• Chess
• Coding/Robotics
• Cooking/Baking
• Council for Equity and Social Justice
• Student Advisory Council
• Music
• Sci-Fi/Anime
• Thespian
GLOBAL STUDY
We develop life-long learners who engage with the world around them.
• In recent years, students have participated in an arts and historical tour of New York
City, a conservation science trip to Hawaii, and a civil rights tour in Alabama.
• International destinations — exploring history, culture, language, science, and
economy — have included France, the Galapagos, South Africa, Italy, China,
Ecuador, England, Cambodia, Vietnam, Spain, Morocco, Germany, Poland, and Japan.
SPORTS
The High School is a member of the Metro Independent School Athletic League and
the Independent Small Schools Athletic Conference. Our teams are competitive, yet
open to everyone. Athletes learn teamwork, sportsmanship, and self-discipline.
The 2021-2022 team sports include:
TECHNOLOGY
• Basketball • Swimming • Track
Our one-to-one Chromebook program
• Cross Country • Tennis • Volleyball
and online learning management system
• Soccer help students connect, engage, and create.
Students will have the tools to become
more effective, efficient, and independent
OUR FACULTY AND STAFF learners. We use apps that support:
Our teachers, more than 80 percent of whom have advanced degrees, inspire
• organization
our students through innovation, commitment, passion, and caring.
• reading
“There are outstanding teachers and outstanding faculties all over the • note-taking
world, but I truly believe that our faculty is different. We have a genuine • writing
understanding of our students who learn differently, and we appreciate their • researching
uniqueness and their original and often incredibly insightful perspective.”
• study skills
— Head of High School Lisa McMahon
STAN TEC AR CH I TECTUR E / TOM H OLDSWORTH PH OTOG RAPH Y
PREPARING FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER
JUNIOR-YEAR INTERNSHIP SENIOR PROJECT
We value the learning and experiences A culminating activity for each Lab School student is the Senior Project.
that take place beyond the classroom
walls. Our unique year-long internship is • Students pursue a line of inquiry that requires the blending of academic
truly an experiential learning opportunity. skills, such as research, writing, presentation, revision techniques,
Students start sharing their interests with and editing, with professional skills, like goal setting, planning, time
the Internship Coordinator their freshman management, and collaboration.
year, so that each student has a chance • Choosing topics that align with their passions, students investigate their
to intern in a structured, supportive subjects throughout the first semester of English 12, develop their theses,
environment — aligned to their passions and show the practical applications of what they’ve learned.
— which can lead to avenues for further
• Recently, senior projects included studies of propaganda posters of World
study.
War II, green infrastructures, and the pandemic’s impact on small businesses.
Our internship placements are as COLLEGE ADVISING
varied as:
From the start of 9th grade, our College Advisor gets to know every
• GTM Architects High School student, developing an understanding of interests and goals,
• American University Police Department recommending summer programs and other pre-college activities of
interest to the student, securing accommodations for the ACT test, and
• National Child Research Center
working with the student and family to determine the best postsecondary
Preschool
fit. Upperclassmen and their parents use Naviance, software that matches
• National Museum of American History students with colleges and tracks application materials, to facilitate the
• The George Washington University’s college search process.
Medical Faculty Associates
T H E L A B S C H O O L O F WA S H I NG T O N
4759 Reservoir Road, N.W. Washington, DC 20007
202.965.6600 | www.labschool.org
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