Academics

Inquiry-Based Learning

Academics

Spend a few hours at Trevor—listen to lively debate, witness the joy of discovery, experience uninhibited collaboration—and you’ll understand the ambition of our academic program.

A challenging college-preparatory curriculum coupled with expert educators and diverse teaching methodologies deepens our students’ learning across all divisions and lends authentic meaning to each school day. Trevor students are more than prepared for each grade level and future college-level work—more importantly, they’ve also learned how to learn. Every day, we weave critical-thinking skills, problem-solving know-how, the value of perseverance, and the ability to reason and debate into the fabric of the Trevor academic experience.

Trevor students acquire a deep understanding of the subjects they study by engaging in investigations, activities, and highly contextualized discussions and lessons. Rather than reciting facts or following a predetermined path to a solution, students construct knowledge by grappling with essential questions and real-world concepts.

What you find at Trevor is lively discourse, intellectual energy, empathetic engagement, constant questioning of the status quo, and serious investigation into topics ranging from probability and the Freedom Riders in Lower School to net neutrality, The Canterbury Tales, and quantum physics in Middle and Upper School.

This is inquiry-based learning.