Guilds

Grades 7-12

Focus: Skills & Craftsmanship (arete)

Structure: 4 skill-based guilds into which every Upper School student is inducted as an apprentice. Advancement to journeyman or master comes through additional work in the guild.

Function: Introduce students to a variety of professional skills and encourage them to hone those skills:

1. Actors Guild: theater & stagecraft
2. Designers Guild: photoshop, graphic design, Studio Art 2D and 3D
3. Orators Guild: Powerpoint, rhetoric, debate
4. Bookkeepers Guild: Excel, personal finance, charts and graphs