Instead of learning math from a textbook, our students' math learning focuses on gathering and analyzing data as a tool for making an impact with their projects.

While other schools hope that student's learning of math will make them better problem solvers, our students learn problem solving directly, as its own subject.

And while other schools hope that some of what students learn in math may someday be useful to them in the business world, our students learn that directly as well, through our entrepreneurship subject.

Instead of learning the sciences from textbooks and memorizing it for tests, Leader School students learn about science as it relates to real challenges the world is facing: like climate change, natural disasters, and epidemic diseases.

Our students also learn about chemistry and biology in an applied form through food studies. And they learn about psychology in an applied form through mental wellness.

Instead of learning how to write formal academic papers, Leader School students learn how to communicate in ways that are more relevant to the real world in their writing subject & in their speaking and listening subject.

When Leader School students learn about history, they're encouraged to constantly think about how it connects to our culture and the world we live in today. And instead of learning about how government works in theory, our students learn how government is working today and how they can be involved, through our current events & politics subject.

Leader School agrees that an appreciation of art, expression and beauty is integral to being a well-rounded human being, so our students also have a subject for art. Students' opportunity to experience a feeling of connection to the world and appreciation for beauty does not end there, as they're also able to experience that in our nature & community subject. And our students are able to learn how aesthetic principles apply to building great products, through our tech & design subject.

While it can be helpful to learn a foreign language, we do not believe that all students must learn a foreign language in order to become a well-rounded adult.

Indeed, our research has found that most students who learn foreign languages wind up not using and forgetting them. One study, for example, found that just 0.7% of people still regularly speak the foreign language they learned in high school. So while learning a foreign language certainly can be beneficial, it’s clearly not very useful to most students.

That said, since Leader School has no required homework, parents and students are also welcome to use some of their out-of-school time using one of the many excellent apps and software for language learning.