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2023 GUIDE TO PRIVATE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
Personalized
Learning Dutchess Day School
WHILE INDEPENDENT, PRIVATE SCHOOLS have been long known for their vigorous academic standards and reputation for excellence, they also are celebrated for their ability to provide unique educational experiences that address a diverse set of needs. The result: customized learning strategies that recognize and incorporate individual learning styles.
At Dutchess Day School, students learn in classrooms full of books
and materials with which to
explore, discover, and invent.
Teachers understand the needs of children at different stages of development. Multiple reading teachers allow lower school readers to work at the pace
and level of challenge that is right for them. Within the small class sizes, many opportunities
for choice engage students’ varying interests and learning styles; they may choose a topic for writing, a musical instrument to learn,
a language to study, or a subject for a science experiment or history project. Students demonstrate what they have learned through presentations,
written essays, speeches, debates, drawings, sculptures, reenactments, skits,
and musical performances. An in-school activity period presents opportunities to pursue individual interests from robotics to fly fishing to a capella singing to Model UN.
Forman School is a coeducational college preparatory school for grades 9 to 12 and PG, exclusively dedicated to empowering bright students who learn differently. Forman’s expert faculty deliver unparalleled education for academically
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Forman School
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