At Episcopal, our mission and school identity guide us in our work of supporting students in their growth as individual thinkers and engaged citizens of the modern world. Accordingly, the smaller class sizes and educational environments of our classrooms center each student as an active learner, rather than merely a passive recipient of information. This takes on different forms in different disciplines. In the humanities, our students are introduced to the discussion-focused Harkness Method during their middle school years and then engage their studies in seminar fashion around formal Harkness tables as they matriculate through our Upper School. Likewise in the sciences, students not only learn about the scientific method in a traditional fashion, but they then have opportunities to engage first-hand in that process of inquiry and experimentation through an approach known as Modeling Instruction. In both respects and more, students at Episcopal are centered in the action of making sense of the world around them, engaging with peers in a collaborative fashion, and honing their knowledge, skill-sets, and capacity for self-expression throughout.