At Waterloo, students learn by doing. Each class culminates in special projects that demonstrate a deeper understanding and teach critical skills along the way.
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Education at Waterloo is more that just studying for a test, it prepares students for college and builds real life skills! Learn more from the students themselves as they answer the question “Why Waterloo?”
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Remember the first time you visited Waterloo? We sure do! Perhaps you joined us for an Experience Day or maybe you were one of our first-year pioneering students and joined not even having the chance to see the school officially in action yet? We know that your visit was a huge part of your high…
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At Waterloo, students can build personal relationships with a faculty of incredibly caring and passionate teachers. Learn more from the students themselves as they answer the question “Why Waterloo?”
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The Waterloo school year follows a trimester schedule, with breaks spaced out between them. Each course concludes with a special project. How does the trimester schedule affect learning and life? Find out first-hand from our students!
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A few themes ran through our projects this fall: one of them is civic engagement—in the season of national challenge and heated elections, many classes looked at how we live, contribute, and engage the world around us for good. What does it mean to be a citizen? What does it mean to be an adult?…
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And why we are planning in-person experiences even while classes will be online. Note: Waterloo School will begin classes online on August 17th. A Community Learning Time during the hour from 9-10 a.m. will allow students to meet in-person or via Zoom with a teacher and a different group of students each day for a…
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I have always appreciated the cool head and heart in a hot room. You know the person: something happens that others react emotionally to in fear and alarm, and the cool, calm, collected person brings confidence, peace, and hope to those around him or her. I appreciate the coolness, because that kind of calm creates…
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If we’re honest, the college application process over the last ten years has seemed to get worse for students without improving the outcomes. Higher stakes for tests, grades, and resumes to feed a more competitive application process (partially because students apply to twice as many colleges as they once did). Add to that a pandemic,…
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THE WORLD IS ALWAYS OPEN FOR LEARNING—EVEN NOW What do we study during a historical pandemic? We look at the old questions, and find new relevance. Spring Term 2020 was like nothing we had planned even just two weeks before it began. Yet the world is always open for learning, even now. There is a…
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