Category: General

Ted Gioia recently shared a sobering list about the state of childhood today. Among the facts he cites: the average child now plays outside for only 4 to 7 minutes a day time spent with friends has fallen in half half of children surveyed say their parents should be concerned about their screen time. Childhood…

We’re excited to share that Monticello Academy has been awarded a Utah Children’s Outdoor Recreation and Education (UCORE) grant to support a new 4th–8th grade outdoor and environmental education program called Monticello Outside. Monticello Outside is a vertically aligned outdoor curriculum that spans grades 4–8 at Monticello Academy. The idea is simple: more time outside,…

Over Fall Break, Mr. Roberts scoped out a destination for the capstone trip of our outdoor education program, Monticello Outside. This trip will be for 8th graders, which means Highbury students will be able to attend this year, and we hope to extend the program to future years so that West Point students will join…

Over the past two years, Monticello Academy has been engaged in a schoolwide effort to better understand how students learn—and how teachers can more effectively support that learning. This journey began with the Practical Applications of Learning Science (PALS) Handbook, a research-based guide originally developed for Naval instructors. The handbook distills decades of cognitive-science research…