The Evergreen Curriculum

A life-building journey from preschool through 8th grade

The Evergreen curriculum is a collaboratively developed, continually updated, preschool through 8th grade journey specifically designed for highly capable students.

We carefully balance forward progress with enriching iteration, essential milestones with spontaneous digressions, and productive collaboration with independent work—creating a complete learning arc as profound as it is varied.

The four sections of an Evergreen education (Early Childhood, Elementary, Intermediate and Middle School) independently yet interconnectedly feed and fuel the Evergreen experience. Whether wading through wetlands in our preschool program or building a  rocket in 8th grade, students live our common commitment to exploration, innovation, and connection at every level.

The methods and processes of our approach support and sustain students across these sections. Key Competencies buoy Evergreen as a whole, lending common values that guide each grade level.


The Evergreen curriculum fosters the following Key Competencies:

Academics

Social and Emotional Learning

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion


Students acquire these through the following methods and processes:

Questions/inspirations/speculations

Projects/explorations/experiments

Knowledge/skills/understandings

Reflections/revisions/new questions


Students and teachers channel Evergreen’s educational values into all that they do, creating confluences and convergences between and across sections. Because we recognize that students learn in many ways, our teachers differentiate instruction to support each student’s particular strengths and passions. Setting goals, reflecting on successes and setbacks, and revising and improving upon previous outcomes allow students to build the confidence and creativity needed to take on, tackle, and transform challenges.

Our teachers use a variety of instructional strategies to engage each student and improve the learning outcomes for all.

Techniques include:

  • Flexible learning groups
  • Personal choice activities
  • Tiered assignments
  • Project based learning

“The way we are wrapping around every student is remarkable psychologically, intellectually, physically—no stone is unturned, and the commitment to do that by every grownup on campus is extraordinary. It’s a whole-being education.”

–Faculty member

Envision an Evergreen Education in Action

From their first day in our preschool program through 8th grade graduation, we nurture children’s development through Evergreen’s foundational belief system: we ensure social-emotional development and awareness of self and others; we actively advance understandings of and actions toward equity, diversity, and inclusion; and we explore nuanced academic content and spark intellectual ambition through hands-on, interdisciplinary engagement.

We invite you to explore what profound learning for the continuously curious looks like in each of our four sections of the school, and envision the many paths your child’s learning can follow.