Home of Talented Teachers for Gifted Students

A highly talented group of caring teachers demand of themselves and of their students the highest standards in academic thinking, scholarly productivity and personal responsibility.

The faculty seeks to engage the curiosity, playfulness with language, sense of humor, wide-ranging interests--the passion to know--of their students as they emphasize the skills of defining the problem, recognizing the pattern, devising multiple solutions, reformulating the question and making the decision. Student outcomes and products stray from the conventional, with teachers openly encouraging cognitive behaviors of risk-taking and novel paths of investigation and discovery.

Elevated expectations by teachers of their students yields graduates with a balance of intellectual skills and personal ethics. At the end of four years, Academy graduates emerge with skills of searching out concepts, not just the facts; of analyzing, not just memorizing; of creating new ideas, not just understanding old ones; of evaluating the great cognitive achievements of cultures by questioning the answers, not merely by answering the questions.