The Beacon School offers a dynamic, inquiry-based education for all students. Arts instruction and technology are infused throughout the curriculum so students maximize the ways they see, represent, and impact their world. This year’s trips to Mozambique, Nicaragua and Ecuador build upon Beacon’s decade-long tradition of global experiential learning. Recently, students and teachers have traveled to South Africa, Russia, Sweden, Mexico, Venezuela, and India. Beacon trips are based on a simple premise: high school students can simultaneously study, experience and make history. This will be the third Beacon trip to the African continent.
In each journey, students build upon their classroom studies with real in-country experiences that range from cross-border field-research, house gutting and rebuilding, and, most recently, performances of Jazz Natyam (a NYC-based fusion of Jazz and Indian classical dance) on premiere stages in southern India. In all cases, these educational, service or performance trips serve as the culmination of semester-long history courses exploring the history, politics, and cultures of the regions we visit.
The Mozambique trip builds out of a Global Cold War seminar and a series of art workshops at Beacon.
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