School Leadership
Progressive Academy's leadership focuses on fostering well-rounded, advanced learners by emphasizing discovery-based understanding and skill development. Families appreciate the school's encouragement of individual potential, with students exploring diverse subjects like languages, arts, and sports to cultivate confidence and self-directed growth. The leadership prioritizes an academic environment that nurtures students' passions and responsibility for their own learning.
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MESSAGE FROM THE LEADERSHIP
We invited Russell Weir, Executive Director at Progressive Academy, to share a message.
The overview highlights the vision, values, and guiding principles that shape leadership and the student experience at Progressive Academy.
Russell Weir, Executive Director
There are so many benefits to sending your child to a school that recognizes the incredible potential of each individual.
Progressive Academy strives to develop well-rounded advanced learners, capable of becoming the entrepreneurs of the future. We develop confidence with intention. Our approaches to education stress understanding through discovery, yet ensure that the necessary base skills are well developed, opening the door for students to pursue subjects as far forward as they are want.
Students are exposed to many required classes including French and Mandarin as second languages, art history, music (including concert band in Junior High), robotics, as well as many options including public speaking, programming, photography, and sports like fencing and equestrian. Our students perform regularly during the school year to build their confidence and comfort with being in front of crowds.
Our school is best characterized as academic. Students are encouraged to learn beyond their grade or age might dictate. We follow the passion for learning of the student, rather than hold them back based on age. Our highly individualized approach helps students learn at an early age that they are directly responsible for their own development.
