The Seven Hills Experiential Learning program nurtures individual strengths and interests and extends the educational experience beyond our campus.
Learning Through Experience
Experiential learning creates pathways within a coherent structure that allows students to pursue an area of interest to a deep and meaningful level. By the time every student leaves Seven Hills, we will help them to develop self-awareness of where their interests lie, facilitate exploration of those interests, and provide them with pertinent real-world experiences so that they have the confidence to explore and embrace life beyond high school.
Accordion
Entrepreneurship aims to equip students with the attributes of an entrepreneurial mindset and the analytical tools needed to innovate and succeed in any career path they choose to pursue. Students will engage in practical, real-world tasks that utilize essential skills such as creative problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, goal setting, and reflection.
Someone gives you $1000 to “make a difference in the community”. What do you do? This is not hypothetical. In this course, student teams receive microgrants and use it to do as much good as possible over the semester. Additionally, each team selects and researches a nonprofit then makes a case about why it should receive a $1,000 grant from the class. Throughout the course, you’ll develop leadership skills and professionalism as you engage with the local citizens, government, businesses, and nonprofits to learn what difference money can and can’t make.
From remote learning to AI, the world of education has fundamentally changed in the last few years. The world in which you started attending schools looks different from the school you attend now. What will come next?
This course offers a deep dive into the evolution of schools and the relationship between schools and our communities. In this course, we will study education through a variety of lenses including ethical, historical, legal, and more by conducting research, analyzing case studies and completing site visits.
What kind of leader are you? While many people think leadership is a position held by a few, the opposite is true: leadership is for everyone, and is really a set of skills and practices for all. It’s something you can put to use in your own life. This course is all about that: helping you think about what kind of leader you can be, what you want to accomplish, and what tools you can develop to help you do that. You’ll start by investigating your own core values and learning about leaders in your community, all the while beginning to identify key traits and practices of good leaders. But you’ll spend most of the semester doing: first, you will develop and lead a workshop in which you’ll lead your peers in experiencing something new. Finally, you’ll complete a capstone project in which you take on and carry out a passion project of improving something within your community. All the while, you’ll be practicing these key skills (organization, team-building, time management, communication) that will serve you as you grow into your role in our school, your family and community, and college, career, and beyond.