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Name: The LiHigh School
Physical Address: 28 Depot Street, Poultney, VT 05764
Mailing Address: PO Box 111, Poultney, VT 05764
Web: https://www.lihighschool.org
Head of School: Jen Calvey
Special Educator: Stuart Gerrol
LiHigh School builds personalized learning plans around the interests, needs, and challenges of each student. We ask students to conceptualize innovative projects with value in the real world, collaborate with classmates and community members to bring those projects to fruition, and celebrate their successes with the school.
Students pursue their high-school diploma by achieving significant academic growth in reading, writing, the use of numbers, history, citizenship and government, physical education and health, the natural sciences, and fine arts.
Using project-based learning, personalized learning plans, professional internships, and college-level courses, each student is able to strengthen their abilities while following their passions and interests.
Assessment at LiHigh School comes in three main areas. Students are assessed for proficiency in academic skills tied to Vermont’s minimum course of study; for social-emotional growth tied to relationship-building, responsibility, and the ability to take purposeful action; and for content understanding using Bloom’s revised taxonomy (particularly, the cognitive domain).
LiHigh School uses growth-based pathways to graduation. These pathways ask students to set and achieve personal goals that demonstrate their ability to learn and grow in a rapidly changing world.
Growth-based pathways offer students opportunities to make meaningful achievements in their lives. Students learn to set goals, develop and implement strategies to achieve those goals, and reflect on the challenges and successes they faced while on their journey.
The pathways, unique to each student, prioritize growth over grade-level proficiency, experiences and products over class rank, and collaboration and cooperation over competition.
Every student has a support team that assists them with their goals. The team consists of the student’s case manager, a family advocate, an assessment and intervention specialist, a trusted teacher who serves as the student advocate, and, finally, the student, who is an active participant in the development and implementation of their graduation plan.
The plan outlines the student’s short- and long-term goals in three different areas: cognitive development, social development, and emotional development. Advancement, and ultimately graduation, is determined by team consensus based on the student’s growth and successes.
The curriculum at LiHigh School consists of content-based seminars, skill-based workshops, work-based learning, independent projects, and college-level courses.
Because each student’s curriculum is based on their passions and interests, there is no set method that applies across the board, though we expect every student to demonstrates significant growth in reading, writing, the use of numbers, history, citizenship and government, physical education and health, the natural sciences, and fine arts.
In addition, students must complete nine weeks of work-based learning and complete at senior capstone project that makes the world a better place, however they choose to intepret that mission.
LiHigh School provides a therapeutic environment designed to support all of the social-emotional issues that beset today’s teenagers. In addition to their academic goals, every student in the school actively works on at least three social-emotional goals to help them become well-functioning members of society
Our main campus is located in the village of Poultney, a rural town on the western border of central Vermont with a vibrant Main Street and a population of roughly 3,500 residents.
LiHigh School is an approved independent school accredited by the State of Vermont. In Vermont, an approved independent school is a school other than a public school which provides a program of elementary or secondary education, or both, that is approved pursuant to 16 V.S.A. § 166 (b).
LiHigh School is also a member of the Vermont Independent Schools Association and the Vermont Principals’ Association.
Students: 18, ages 11 to 17
Faculty: 15 faculty
CEEB Code: 460331
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28 Depot Street,
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LiHigh School welcomes all people and does not discriminate because of the age, race, creed, color, national origin, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity of any person.