Mentoring

Nature and Philosophy of Student Mentoring

We believe that education is ultimately a one-on-one enterprise between the teacher and the student.

We want our students to assimilate (i.e., understand and desire) for themselves the Academy’s ideals: the marks of a maturing boy and girl, young man and woman growing in human virtues; freedom and responsibility; and spirit of service. This ideal finds reality chiefly through mentoring, deemed an inalienable feature of the school and its distinguishing mark.

Mentoring is integral to the teaching function, and all faculty members shall strive to become mentors. Its ideals, including the assimilation of habits of mind and will, shall be coherent with the Academy’s vision and mission, and contiguous with the objectives of the curricular and co-curricular programs.