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Havergal College
Forum for Change
and
Student Institute Team
By Ann Peel, Director, Institute at Havergal
As a school, we have students ask themselves: “
What kind of
world do I want?
”
This question frames our programming and whole-school dialogue.
The Institute at Havergal is tasked with bringing the school’s
strategic pillars of global capability and self-efficacy to life by
giving students the global knowledge and skills they need to be
successful anytime, anywhere, with anyone.
Our project is the development of agency: teaching for
understanding.
The Institute enables students to experience impact by working
on self-selected and directed real-world, real-time problem
solving. Through the Forum for Change and the Student Institute
Team (SIT) in the Junior School, we provide the opportunity for
students to practice shaping their world with relatively low-risk
projects and activities—to learn by doing—and support them as
they transfer their learning.
“The true test of understanding
is the ability to transfer
learning.”
—Stephen Katz
Our goal is to support young women
who approach their world with
curiosity, who embrace learning
from failure, who seek originality,
who are committed to collaboration,
who enjoy working with those unlike
themselves and who value good
questions.
People, Perspective, Partnership
To address problems, we work
with people, enriched by multiple
perspectives, in partnership (or
collaboration).
Institute at Havergal