Academics

Education in Action

Our Curriculum

Think. Play. Grow. 

At High Meadows School, Pre-K through Eighth Grade learning is about engagement and connection. Our faculty members inspire students to ask the next question, explore what matters to them, and become respectful self-advocates. Through meaningful experience, dialogue, and inquiry, students become reflective and motivated individuals prepared for long-term academic success and leadership as global citizens.
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Learning Through Experience

Experiential learning at High Meadows honors each student’s sense of wonder and values their voice. The result is confident and joyful thinkers, doers, and community members.

As an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, we follow principles that develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who are motivated to succeed. Our 42 acres of woods, meadows, and gardens provide the perfect outdoor classroom for daily learning and investigation. We also use a progressive approach to education that encourages students to collaborate, make discoveries, and apply what they learn to the world beyond school.

Lori Kennedy, Lower Years Principal

At High Meadows, we carefully attend to the developing child. We spend time and resources allowing children to focus on building strong relationships and becoming resilient learners who pursue their interests and passions. Naturally, we provide children with necessary skills to grow and succeed academically, but perhaps more importantly, we grow learners.

Progressive Education at High Meadows

Progressive education is a vigorous and engaging approach based on more than a century of research about how children learn. It invites students to think deeply about issues and ideas that matter and builds enduring skills and values for an ever-changing world. 

In our progressive learning environment, High Meadows students:

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  • Ask questions to propel their understanding

  • Connect with nature

  • Apply knowledge in real-world applications

  • Feel safe, happy, and ready to thrive

  • Build deep connections across subject areas

  • Form lasting relationships

  • Advocate for social change

While students master foundational academic building blocks across core subjects, they build a deeper understanding of the significance, interconnectedness, and relevance of their learning. That’s why student experiences are organized around authentic problems, projects, and questions that incorporate multiple subject areas.

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Creating Critical Thinkers

On our campus, students are often outdoors and in classrooms observing, measuring, discussing, and hypothesizing. Academic study at High Meadows is hands-on and interactive, creating critical thinkers for whom learning is a natural part of every day, at school and elsewhere. Learning through experience takes many shapes within our curriculum.

Embracing the World

High Meadows School embraces learning opportunities outside the four walls of a classroom. Connecting with experts, the land, and the resources of the larger community allows students to experience the real-world applications of their education.

Hands-On and Inquiry-Driven Learning

Students at High Meadows learn to be active partners in their education. They construct understanding by asking questions, investigating, experimenting, receiving feedback, and sharing their findings with an audience. 

Holistic Approach to Educating Children

High Meadows cares about what kids know, who kids are, and what makes them feel safe, happy, and ready to thrive. The relationships we develop within the community contribute to the development of well-rounded individuals. 

Social Justice and Sustainability

At High Meadows, we empower students to take authentic action to bring change to their school community, city, state, and the world. 

Transdisciplinary Learning

Our approach to teaching and learning connects all subject areas, enabling new knowledge and a deeper understanding of real-life experiences.

Authentic Academic Assessment

In a progressive school like High Meadows, assessment focuses not just on the final product of a unit of learning, but on the entire learning process. Teachers measure and document student growth almost daily across subject areas and share feedback through progress reports, regular parent-teacher communication, student self-reflection check-ins, and opportunities where students present what they have learned. Standardized tests (Educational Testing Bureau’s CTP) for Grades 4-8 give nationwide context to High Meadows student achievement. Students regularly identify specific areas for skills strengthening, celebrate successes, and develop stronger awareness of their abilities and potential.

High Meadows Parent

We want our son’s education to be about authentic learning that sparks his natural curiousity. High Meadows delivers that academically rich experience for our child.
The High Meadows community celebrates and perpetuates each individual’s quest for knowledge and skill, sense of wonder, and connection to the natural environment. We empower each to be a compassionate, responsible, and active global citizen.
Age 3 through Grade 8 | Authorized IB PYP World School
1055 Willeo Road, Roswell, Georgia 30075 | (770) 993-2940 | info@highmeadows.org