What makes School for Tomorrow so different from other secondary schools?
There are many specific aspects of School for Tomorrow that distinguish us from other secondary schools. All of them, however, can be seen as deriving from three big picture distinguishing features. First of all, SFT is a school designed in the 21st century, to prepare our students for life in the 21st century, utilizing all the knowledge and resources we now have in the 21st century. Moreover, SFT will be an evolving, changing institution, responding to the evolving, changing world around us. Second, SFT’s cutting edge education model has been derived from a blank slate. Almost all of today’s secondary schools are variations of an 80-year-old assembly line, top-down, centralized model of education. While some schools are certainly better than others, and some are quite distinct from others, all are variations on a very old theme. On the other hand, most alternative schools that have arisen over the years have, to a great extent, reflexively rejected the traditional model and everythin
