Core Values

  • Embracing a transdisciplinary approach to curriculum rooted in authentic learning, compassion, and action

  • Engaging in hands-on work in the field through real-world, project-based learning opportunities

  • Empowering students to make a positive impact in their local and global communities through awareness, involvement, and volunteering

  • Inspiring conservation and activism through the ethical treatment of all living things and preservation of finite resources

  • Sharing evidence-based findings through the lens of science (inquiry, research, data collection, analysis, presentation, action)

  • Utilizing technology responsibly in the classroom and applying it in the field

  • Providing multiple opportunities for field-based research and field work for application of classroom learning Comprehensive

Distance Learning – Distinctives

(Adopted for 2020-2021 School Year in response to COVID)

  • JGEMS is responsive, proactive, and has autonomy in curriculum and program adaptations

  • Every staff member knows every student and family

  • Every staff member is committed to the same core values we instill in our students (learning, compassion, action)

  • We are dedicated to maintaining our transdisciplinary, science-based approach to curriculum, even when online o Field-based research will continue, just in a different format o Teachers will have opportunities to teach live and/or record from the field and on-location o Guest speakers and experts from the field will join classes online

    Clubs: Student Leadership, Rollercoaster Math, VEXRobotics, Film Club, Lunch Bunch, Art 1.