ABOUT US
The Corwin-Russell School @ Broccoli Hall is an independent
school for high-potential students 11-19 years old with varied
learning styles, average to superior intelligence, exceptional
creativity, attentional issues, untapped interests, talents,
and strengths, and disparity between innate ability and past
production.
As a co-ed college preparatory school for high-potential
students with an alphabet soup of learning styles, we offer
a strong, creative curriculum, infused with arts, technology,
and social pragmatics. Instruction in all traditional academic
subject areas is supported in a multi-modal, imaginative
learning environment. Innovative and individualized teaching
happens in class groups of 8-10.
Rooted in the Latin "educare," we define ourselves
as leading students to discover and develop the best in themselves:
academically, creatively, socially, and personally. We base
our educational philosophy on trust, responsibility, process,
negotiation, expression, and a belief in each other and in
the community.
For our students, traditional approaches to education have
yielded self-doubt, misperception of true worth, poor choices,
and an enormous fear of failure--real or perceived.
The Corwin-Russell School honours differences, and thereby
enables students to thrive and to achieve.
The faculty are knowledgable, dedicated, eclectic, diverse,
creative, and exceptional individuals. These talents support
a multi-faceted approach to learning as a language-laden
and skills-based experience merges with creativity and personality
to form strong academic instruction, with a liberal dose
of laughter.
Our students benefit from partnerships with area museums,
colleges, and performance centers, a career exploration week,
and the annual Drama Intersession and theater production.
ABOUT BROCCOLI HALL
The Corwin Russell School looks like a bomb shelter.
It is a brick and cinder-block building out in the middle
of nowhere, next to a cellphone tower... The woman who
runs it, Jane Jakuc, has an uncanny talent not only for
finding the hidden gifts in all her students but also for
selecting faculty who can do the same... The "@ Broccoli
Hall" is a whimsical addition to the name of the school
that Jane and her staff dreamed up during a sleepy part
of a summer day. Many people now call the school Broccoli
Hall, which amuses me when I think of the more formally
named schools ending with the word Hall. Jane doesn't exactly
thumb her nose at those schools. But there is a playful,
iconoclastic message in "Broccoli," one... the
students there need and benefit from.
From Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., & John
J. Ratey, M.D.'s Delivered
from Distraction (2005).
Used with permission.
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