What makes a Hallcraft school?
We believe educational environments thrive through thoughtful program design, cultures that honor the communities they are a part of, and structure that creates alignment between operations and values.
We define these three main components of an educational environment as:
Program: What you want individuals to learn and how they will learn it.
Structure: The operational components and systems of the school and aligning those with the mission and philosophy (i.e. how to build a space that supports the academic program)
Culture: The environment supports and reflects the mission and philosophy. To do that, each school has very clear values that are tangible and a clear process to put into practice.
Within each of these components, a Hallcraft school achieves those pillars by ensuring it has the following:
Program
Academic experiences that do not compromise program quality based on tuition amount.
School models with freedom to adapt and adjust programming to meet their particular mission.
Culture:
Communities built to embrace local cultures and anchored in fostering responsibility and a zest for life in all students.
School operators with freedom to create exceptional and unique communities of learners.
Structure:
Key infrastructure support with ongoing services.
Allowing school operators to do what they do best - focus on learners.
We build high-quality, non-standard schools that reimagine what education could be.
What makes Hallcraft schools high-quality?
Structural integrity: Each school is well operated.
Clear commitments: Schools have actionable and concise public commitments to their community. They do what they say they will do.
Purposeful environment: There is a consistent hum of activity in every school. Students and staff work side by side with intention and clear direction.
Aligned community: Students, staff, and parents maintain relationships of trust and kindness with one another through clear paths of communication.
How are Hallcraft schools non-standard/traditional?
Technology-forward: Schools incorporate technology to allow students to move through customized and/or self-paced curriculum.
Individualized instruction: All direct instruction is given in small, targeted groups. There are no lectures.
Experiential learning: Schools give their students opportunities to practice specific skills experientially using real-world tools.
Student responsibility: Students are given the freedom to take responsibility for themselves and are expected to contribute positively to their environment.
How do Hallcraft school reimagine what a school could be?
Inspiring spaces: Multipurpose spaces are designed with children in mind and uniquely inspire and support the specific school and program.
Iteration: We believe in improvement through feedback and iteration.
Intentional schedule: School days are designed to be adaptable to the local communities and optimize for maximum learning opportunities.
Assessment: Schools experiment with ways to prioritize formative assessment that occurs during learning experiences to help shape a learning path over summative tests that check for learning after.
Success: There are clear metrics for assessing student, program, structural, and community success used throughout the school year.
Why more schools?
Serve specific demographics well: We believe in customizing schools to fit specific family needs and student learning styles. Providing families with more choices will lead to better outcomes.
Jumpstart change and innovation in education: Most schools haven’t seen much change in the last hundred years. We believe the fastest, most impactful way to change education is to open a new school that delivers a radically different educational experience.
