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=**New Hampton School Curriculum Center**=

Welcome to the center of our curriculum development! The goal of this space is to support and improve the curriculum at the New Hampton School.

Curriculum is a complex concept and curriculum development is a dynamic process. In order to involve as many as possible in the process, please view the information, process and desired outcomes on the left of this page.

In the words of John H. Schaar, “The future is not someplace we are going to but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.”

=New Hampton School focuses on connecting content to the global context!=

As the new school year approaches, New Hampton School is focused on our progressive and innovative curriculum to prepare our students to be global citizens.

This year we at New Hampton School are asking our teachers to integrate global issues into their teaching and build a curriculum that prepares NHS students to be global citizens. In other words, have NHS students apply knowledge to a real world context. • Address relevant issues • Present diversity • Bridge differences • Seek global partnerships

"As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able."--Michael Wesch, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology Kansas State University