City as Our Campus was recognized by the Edward E. Ford Foundation as one of the top independent school programs in the nation in 2009, when the Foundation awarded WT one of only four coveted Educational Leadership Grants. City as Our Campus is an initiative that utilizes and integrates the community into the school's core academic curriculum to extend student learning beyond the classroom, introduce students to a diversity of people, and increase student investment in their community. Through this initiative, students participate in urban design challenges, engage in entrepreneurial product develop, receive mentorship from community educators, utilize the city as their classroom, welcome guest educators into the school, and much more. Business leaders, researchers, technologists, artists, community members, and parents are transformed into coeducators as they share their expertise and reimagine schooling. Adam Nye, the Director of City as Our Campus, will provide an overview of the initiative and its related projects, dissect the program to explore learning objectives and teacher practice, and help participants to consider ways of adapting aspects of the program for their own practice.
