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Greenwich Academy and Brunswick School are committed to a
coordinated Upper School program. While remaining two distinct
institutions in philosophy and culture, Greenwich Academy and Brunswick
School are dedicated to common educational goals. Both schools focus
their attention on the important issues of scholarship, leadership,
service, diversity and friendship. Greenwich Academy and Brunswick
School combine to prepare students of both genders for life in an
increasingly complex world.
The unique aspect of coordination
is that it creates an entity that is neither single-sex nor
coeducational. Over three decades, the program has evolved into a
teaching and learning community whose whole is better than the sum of
its parts. In fact, each part is stronger for its participation in the
whole. The schools retain their own traditions, student governments,
athletic programs, publications, boards of trustees and alumni/alumnae
associations.
Scholarship
The
coordinate program sets a rigorous academic standard for all its
students, combining the resources of two dedicated faculties who offer
24 Advanced Placement courses and a number of honors electives. The
schools believe that intellectual discipline implies more than
obligation, obedience and effort; they expect not merely competence but
depth of thought. Education here is a dynamic interaction among
students and teachers that makes ethical as well as academic demands.
Greenwich Academy and Brunswick School are as concerned with the
process of learning as with its result.
Leadership
Greenwich
Academy and Brunswick School students are expected to be responsible to
their peers and teachers and accountable to themselves. Leadership
opportunities on campus and in coordinate clubs teach Academy and
Brunswick young women and men to be adaptable, resourceful and skilled.
A
select number of Greenwich Academy and Brunswick School seniors
participate in the Peer Leadership program. Pairs of seniors offer
weekly discussions and social activities to small, coed groups of ninth
graders. This program helps freshmen adjust to life in the Upper School
and, at the same time, provides excellent opportunities for seniors to
develop and strengthen a sense of purpose and responsibility.
Greenwich
Academy and Brunswick School recognize that leadership opportunities
exist everywhere. The schools ask all students to maintain a high
standard of behavior on the playing fields, in student government and
in academic and artistic pursuits.
Diversity
A
commitment to diversity in all aspects of education distinguishes the
Greenwich Academy-Brunswick School experience. The coordinate
environment itself presents students with the challenges of difference,
and both schools teach students to respect diversity in all its forms -
racial, cultural, ethnic, social, intellectual. Students come here with
a variety of backgrounds, interests and personalities. Greenwich
Academy and Brunswick School encourage their students to develop a
unified community through dialogue and encounter; the students learn to
communicate and so come to understand both the complexities and
ambiguities of a common good and their responsibility to promote this
end. The goal is that Academy and Brunswick students gain a sympathetic
comprehension of individual and cultural difference, and also
understand their capabilities as agents of change.
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Greenwich, Connecticut 06830
203.625.8900
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