After a fun and full first week, students are starting to settle into routines: learning their classroom jobs, choosing their work, and beginning to build our community together. This coming week, we’ll be raising the bar a little with new expectations and more learning opportunities. Special classes began Monday with Music (and Band for those...Read More

Hello from Washington, D.C.! Our MSBG travelers kicked off their journey with a cozy stay in an Airbnb, grocery runs to a local bodega, and a visit to alumni-favorite soul food stop, Oohhs and Aahhs. Day one in the nation’s capital was packed with hands-on history: students presented at key monuments on the National Mall...Read More

Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. Or at least the students have. We finished up our run of movies that were referenced in Ready Player One. The Last Starfighter closed us out strong. We start our next literature unit this coming week. Our focus in...Read More

Hello everyone! We have made it through our winter conferences and progress reports! This means we have begun practicing some new material in earnest. In Science, we are focusing our energy on the history of Earth; primarily, how water, wind, and time have affected Earth’s crust, as well as how we got to understand that...Read More

Welcome back! We are back in the swing of things in 2025, hitting the ground running. Let’s start with what’s new in the curriculum: In Science, we have completed our Chemistry course and begun on Earth History. Currently, we are looking at the Grand Canyon and the formation of landforms. We will be focusing on...Read More

Hello again, and welcome to the last week of school in the year 2024! Our adolescents are having a week filled with projects and activities, so let’s take a look at what they’re into. In our Baking elective, we learned how to bake pies from scratch, using a “perfect pie crust” recipe. A cherry pie,...Read More

Hello again! This week in the Adolescent Program, we are firing on all cylinders. Let’s start with our core curriculum. In Science, we will learn how elements bond to form molecules and ionic compounds. This follows an experiment wherein we saw how various substances react with heat (fire), water, and oxygen. The resounding favorite was...Read More

Happy December! Welcome to a very busy season for our adolescents. This week saw the soft opening of our microeconomy, Mustang Cafe. While there are a few kinks to iron out, the introductory gambit was a rousing success. Thanks to everyone who participated and gave feedback. It was a wonderful learning experience and we will get...Read More

This week in the Adolescent Program we are keeping incredibly busy. We went on a student-designed field trip to the Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor. The goal was to see the process that the coffee goes through before it reaches the consumer. We got so much more than that! Steve was enthusiastic about the whole process...Read More

Happy September Everyone! Our adolescents are fully into the swing of the school year. We are hip-deep in the Reconstruction of the United States after the Civil War. This week’s conversation will be about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the Black Codes, military rule in the South, and how the Electoral College works. It’s...Read More