Our Guiding Principles and Helios Learner Outcomes are the foundation for our thinking about program design and curriculum for gifted children.
Helios Guiding Principles
- Excellence and Rigor
- Having Wonderful Ideas
- Success and Failure
- The Responsibility for Learning
- Collaboration and Community
- Respect and Kindness
- Self-Discovery
- Empathy and Perspective
- The Natural World
Excellence and Rigor
Having Wonderful Ideas
Success and Failure
The Responsibility for Learning
Collaboration and Community
Respect and Kindness
Self-Discovery
Empathy and Perspective
The Natural World
Inspired by Expeditionary Learning, Kurt Haun, founder of Outward Bound, and tenets of project-based learning