School-wide Theme
Each school year since 2000-2001, our faculty and students come together across grade levels to explore a school-wide theme with our extended community. Launched each fall, the annual theme serves as a way to re-imagine and re-interpret longstanding curricular units. The theme is incorporated into curriculum through classroom projects, the arts, and athletics.
Our 2024-2025 school-wide theme is HOPE. Hope is the driving force behind everything we do. By providing teacher guidance and fostering a sense of ownership, we will cultivate learning experiences that empower our students to envision a brighter future and inspire resilience and optimism in the face of challenges. Together, we believe that with hope as our guide, every student can achieve greatness and make a positive impact on the world.
Our 2023-2024 school-wide theme was STRENGTH! The many definitions of strength, both mental and physical–firmness, durability, power–was integrated into curriculum across disciplines. Together we investigated mental, physical, and scientific strength and the aspects of struggle that lead to strength, as well as how to create and develop strength. We encouraged our students to believe in themselves and their personal strength as we examined strength of character, the strength to be yourself, the strength to take appropriate risks, the strength to say “no,” and the strength it takes to be upstanders.
Our 2022-2023 school-wide theme was IMPACT! Defined as having “a marked effect or influence,” impact was integrated into curriculum as together we investigated how we might embrace “impact” and explored the impact on the environment, the social emotional nature of impact, and impact on all disciplines. We encouraged our students to believe in themselves, their ideas, and their voices, and recognize the impact they have in their daily lives at The Willows and in the future of our nation and global society.
