Individualized Learning

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Deciding where to attend school is about far more than simply making a choice. At Indian Springs School, we combine the best of an idyllic setting with the excitement of an urban environment nearby. But the real decision involves understanding how Indian Springs can be right for you.

Our Admission team can guide you through the process, from scheduling a campus visit to providing you with information regarding tuition assistance, financial aid, and application deadlines.

An Indian Springs Education

At Indian Springs School, we believe in individualizing the educational experience. This allows students to construct their own unique, rigorous curriculum and to learn to explore their passions.

Our graduates may attend the most prestigious colleges around the country and across the world, but our approach to academics means that they discover something even more valuable—how to grow as a scholar, an individual, and a citizen.

Boarding at Indian Springs

Boarding has always been at the heart of Indian Springs School. Today, this experience continues to foster friendships, enhance personal responsibility, and create diverse educational opportunities. Learning through Living embodies potential. You can explore these possibilities through immersing yourself in on-campus life.

Whether you prefer an extra hour in the library, laughter over a dinner with friends, or both, boarding at Indian Springs School means making a choice to slow down, and to step up—to take the time to engage with people, with a place, and with a sense of purpose.

Experience Our Campus

Set on 350 idyllic acres, Indian Springs School is a resource as much as a retreat. Our Fertile Minds Learning Garden and top-quality sports facilities help feed the body. Our sustainably designed facilities help feed the mind.

Emphasizing the quality of student life, our environment embodies the values of community, responsibility, and opportunity. Whether you are on campus for the day or make it your home for the year, this is a space for exploration, education, and engagement.

Giving at Indian Springs

Louis “Doc” Armstrong, Springs’ founding director, suggested that our important work is “to bridge the gap between what is and what might be” in the ways we learn, think, act, and participate in the wider world. This work is undergirded and extended by the generosity of all who share our mission.

Every gift makes a difference. Regardless of your age or situation, we have a means of giving to the school that suits your circumstances. Our Advancement staff stands ready to help.

Learning Opportunities

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Independent Studies

In the 1950s and ‘60s, Founding Director Doc Armstrong pulled students out of class and gave them a stack of books to read if he thought they needed a more individualized program. Today, upper-level students are encouraged to work with Indian Springs faculty members on meaningful independent study topics that support their distinctive interests, personality, and preferences. Each year, Springs’ Dean of Academics approves more than 20 independent studies, from topics such as American political philosophy of the early founding period, to the applied mathematics of winning at tennis, to social, economic, and political forces impacting women's health issues.
Makerspace

Springs’ Makerspace is a flexible and personalized learning environment designed to foster creative problem solving, curiosity, collaboration, and iterative learning. This in turn leads to better thinking through more effective questioning.

Teachers blend core disciplines in a project-based approach, allowing students to explore their interests and harness their innovative potential. Projects are not done at the end of a unit of learning; they are the vehicle and purpose of the learning. Focus is on projects in engineering, robotics, electronics, 3-D graphic design and printing, programming, woodworking, metalworking, gardening, culinary arts, or a combination of these areas.

Springs’ Makerspace opportunities exist because we believe learning through doing is an integral part of Learning through Living—learning can be self-organized, social, and student-owned; and it can be the product of play, experimentation, and authentic inquiry, where each student exploits the ideal of experiential education.
Malone Schools Online Network
In 2015, Indian Springs joined the new Malone Schools Online Network to expand course offerings available to all of Springs’ upper-level students. Taught by faculty from participating Malone Scholars Schools and the Stanford Online High School, MSON virtual courses give Springs students the chance to take intensive classes in an interactive, virtual discussion setting. Courses meet twice weekly for an hour and use a blended learning approach, combining real-time video conferencing seminars with recorded lectures and activities to be completed outside of class. Small in size, courses may last one semester or the full school year.
Requirements:
- All enrollments for MSON courses require approval from Indian Springs’ Dean of Academics.
- MSON courses cannot be used to meet departmental/academic curriculum requirements.
- Courses and grades earned are listed on Indian Springs School transcripts.
Click here to learn more about the Malone Schools Online Network.

Mastery Transcript Consortium

Indian Springs is a Founding School in the Mastery Transcript Consortium, along with 17 other strong, forward-thinking independent schools around the country. The Mastery Transcript Consortium is a collective of high schools organized to rethink models of student assessment and transcript reporting. MTC’s goal is to implement a system that assesses each individual student’s mastery of skills and prioritizes flexibility in the type of feedback students receive. This kind of personalized feedback for students has always been at the center of Indian Springs’ belief in individualized learning and supports our enhancement of differentiated learning opportunities.

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