The Summa Academy

The Summa Academy is a unique educational environment for students age 5-14 and their families that will open in the fall of 2012. Using the holistic approach of Natural Learning Relationships, the Academy nurtures the physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual development of its students in multi-age classrooms that have a low teacher-to-student ratio.

Summa Academy has four simple goals for your child:

1. Academic excellence and a mastery of all the important skills needed to maximize their educational potential.
2. The social ability to bring greater perspective, understanding, compassion, and problem-solving to the world we live in.
3. The ability to self-reflect in a way that builds confidence and helps a child know their place in the world.
4. An enriched— never diminished—ability to find joy and wonder in themselves, the world, and people around them.

Using the holistic approach of NLR, the teachers and administrators at Summa Academy work together to nurture the physical, social, emotional, spiritual and intellectual development of your child. At Summa, we recognize, appreciate, and engage the unique gifts and contributions that each individual brings.

At Summa Academy, successful classrooms are centered on:

• Having trust in the student’s eagerness to learn
• Creating and supporting emotional safety
• Appreciating different learning styles with awareness of the student’s strengths and weaknesses
• Creating healthy and effective communication based on mutual respect
• Valuing all relationships—parent-teacher-student—with communication, timing, and respect
• Promoting positive relationships through modeling