Teaching and Learning
“Bridges saved my child.”
We hear this every week!
Bridges Academy is unlike any other school — independent, charter, or public. Our promise, in just a word or two, is to use our strength-based program to unlock human potential. And the potential of our students is high. We educate a unique population of students with learning differences who are amazingly bright, outside-the-box-thinkers, capable of developing expertise at a very young age in any number of fields, from robotics to religion, string theory to Sanskrit, politics to poetry.
Our faculty, staff, and administration are flexible, understanding, caring, and completely devoted to the social, emotional, intellectual, academic, and creative growth of our twice-exceptional students. Experts in their fields of study and in teaching and learning, our faculty are creative in their approaches. The only thing we are dogmatic about is flexibility, responding to the multiplicity of needs and hopes of each individual student.
We know that to be educated is not simply ticking off a list of required college prep courses. It is a highly integrated personalized journey and process involving learning about ourselves; of individual and collective experiences in and outside of the school; and of acquisition of facts and a deep comprehension of critical concepts. Most importantly, the process of education requires commitment to an ongoing application of ourselves to personal development and meaningful achievements.
To stay at the leading edge of teaching and learning for gifted, 2e students, all Bridges staff and faculty engage with world class leaders in the field through our 2e Center for Research and Professional Development. The 2e Center connects our daily work in classrooms with our own Bridges Graduate School and our media hub, Bridges 2e Media.
Getting to know and understand Bridges Academy, our unique philosophy, student body, and faculty is a process in itself, one well worth undertaking.
We would love to show you how Bridges comes to life each day at one of our upcoming open houses or school tours. Please contact Admissions to book an appointment.