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INDEPENDENT COLLEGE-PREPARATORY EDUCATION FOR GIRLS IN GRADES FIVE THROUGH TWELVE

It is the mission of Heritage Hall to inspire in each child the curiosity to learn, the self-confidence to lead, and the compassion to serve.

Founded in 1913 by Miss Ela Hockaday, the Hockaday School is an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for girls. The School prepares girls of strong potential, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to assume positions of responsibility and leadership in a rapidly changing world by giving them a foundation for living grounded on the traditional four cornerstones: character, courtesy, scholarship, and athletics. Hockaday offers a challenging college preparatory curriculum with Advanced Placement courses, honors courses, interdisciplinary program, and co-curricular classes with St. Mark's School of Texas, a boys' school in Dallas. The faculty consists of 118 full-time teachers and 13 part-time teachers, of whom 68 have a Master's degree, and nine hold Doctoral degrees.

We are committed to providing an environment where students can: Develop moral and spiritual values consistent with the Christian principles on which Punahou was founded, affirming the worth and dignity of each individual. Develop intellectual, academic and physical potential to the fullest degree, preparing them for college and for challenges facing them now and in the future. Develop and enhance creativity and appreciation of the arts. Appreciate cultural diversity and develop social responsibility.

The American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam encourages, supports and publicizes the projects of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, the Oasis of Peace. For more than thirty years, Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam has been dedicated to dialogue, cooperation and a genuine and durable peace between Arabs and Jews, Palestinians and Israelis. Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel have chosen to live and work together as equals in this community to promote trust, understanding and mutual respect well beyond its own borders. At Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, the bilingual, binational, multicultural Primary School, the School for Peace, the Pluralistic Spiritual Center, and other projects, serve the village and beyond reaching thousands of Jewish and Palestinian youth and adults.

Urban Arts Partnership (UAP) is a non-profit organization that serves difficult-to-reach youth attending Title I schools in the New York City Department of Education public school system. Its mission is to strengthen public schools by providing arts-based solutions to urban educational issues. A co-founder of four new small schools and contributing innovator in effective arts integration teaching practices, UAP accomplishes its mission though an arts-based holistic model of programming that cultivates the intellectual and socio-emotional development of disadvantaged youth.

The Waldorf School of Princeton, part of an independent educational movement of more than 1,000 schools worldwide, is dedicated to recognizing the unique spirit in each child. Through a rich curriculum integrating the academic, artistic, and practical, the Waldorf School of Princeton guides children toward self-knowledge, to meet the world by awakening within them warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose.

The Saratoga Education Foundation was established in 1982 by concerned parents when the government funding for schools was diminishing in a powerful effort to help sustain the level of excellence in classrooms for all students in the district. The foundation continues to support many important programs such as PE, art, music, libraries, technology and science in the four SUSD schools.

The Northern Nevada Math Club encourages students to find their joy of math through social, team based math competitions that allow them to creatively use skills learned in the classroom to solve complex, challenging problems with their peers.

To prepare its students for admission to and success in college the school offers a rigorous curriculum that meets the university of California a-g requirements, with an emphasis on basic skills and core subject matter in English language arts, mathematics, social studies and science, and a comprehensive support program that promotes healthy youth development, including preparing the students to apply their knowledge and skills for the benefit of the community and environment.

The mission of the Asheville City Schools Foundation is to collaborate with our community to do whatever it takes for all ACS students to thrive.

The Richmond Waldorf School is a private school dedicated to providing a quality education to students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade its mission is to provide an alternative choice for students to become individuals in body, intellect, and spirit.