Insight’s Mission + Values

Insight Mission

Insight Colearning Center prepares traditionally under-served teens to make a difference in a rapidly changing and uncertain world by providing an exemplary high school experience that combines rigorous, college-style coursework, authentic problem-based learning, one-on-one advising, accommodations and respect for learning differences, and participation in a dynamic and diverse learning community. To achieve this mission, we help students build Competence, Confidence, and Connection in school and Community.

Insight students build Competence in

  • All academic disciplines

  • Forging positive relationships

  • Collaborating in work and community settings

  • Disrupting inequity and oppression

  • Self-advocacy and living independently

  • Thriving in the natural world

 Insight students build Confidence through

  • Multi-age, seminar-style classes

  • Our three-phase model of education

  • Shared leadership in the school community

  • Outdoor adventures

  • Academic advising

  • Holistic, narrative feedback, instead of a numbered grading system, to facilitate reflection and opportunities for mastery and growth.

Insight provides opportunities for Connection through

  • A welcoming community of peers

  • Respect for diversity, including but not limited to: gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, class, religion, and neurodivergence

  • Authentic, personal connections with teachers, advisors, and community mentors

  • Service to school and community

 
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Insight Core Values

We believe that:

  1. Students learn best in a community of peers from a variety of backgrounds.

  2. Education must prepare emerging adults to solve real problems in the world.

  3. Emerging adults need the opportunity to gain experience building knowledge and products collaboratively.

  4. Rigorous, deep coursework is a necessary part of teaching students to learn in a transferable way.

  5. We embrace teens’ developmental position in order to support their healthy emergence into adulthood.

  6. Teachers and administrators must be respected and valued. They make and sustain a school.

  7. Teachers must be supported and nurtured in their ongoing professional development.

  8. To be effective and responsive, an educational program must be studied, evaluated, and improved.

  9. The best findings about effective education belong to the public and should be distributed for public use.

  10. Recipients of a worthwhile education have a positive impact on the communities in which they participate.