DA Students Participate in Local, Regional, National and International Experiential Education Immersives

Just before DA’s Spring Break in March, students had the opportunity to participate in a variety of Experiential Education Immersives (EEI). Elementary students visited with and read to neighborhood preschoolers; built aluminum foil boats and tested their sea-worthiness on our campus pond; and played creative on-campus games like Minute to Win It. Our middle and high school students were able to choose their own adventure from local options such as birding, mountain biking, visiting sports venues, trying new foods, to regional trips for cross-country skiing and volunteering at the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation in South Dakota, and even national and international trips including visits to Chicago, Hawaii, Key Largo in the Florida Keys, Cuba, and Panama.

EEI is an integral part of the DA curriculum, designed to provide students with a wide range of academic, personal, physical, community, and social challenges outside of the regular classroom. They give students the unique opportunity to “learn by doing and reflecting” while mingling with students from other grades/divisions, working with teachers from other grades/divisions, and fully immersing themselves in transformative experiences.