Lick-Wilmerding High School

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LWHS prepares its students to thrive in college and to be passionate, self-directed, lifelong learners. Toward these ends, its faculty employ a wide range of teaching methods, intended to help every student succeed. LWHS has a long tradition of valuing and integrating the liberal arts, sciences, technical arts, visual arts and performing arts. The resulting rigorous head, heart, hands curriculum provides students with a “toolbox” with which to build lives of consequence and fulfillment. In order to prepare students to assume responsible adult roles in the world, ethical thinking is explicitly woven through the curriculum. Similarly, problem solving and collaborative skill building, including learning when to lead, when to listen, when to contribute, and when to follow, are integral to a LWHS education. Prizing innovative thought, most distinctively through the integration of science, technology and design, LWHS encourages students to marshal the courage to make mistakes in order to learn and become more resilient. LWHS further believes that mindfulness and healthy ways of being, including seeking balance in one’s life, are essential to living a life of care—for self, family, community, and environment.

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