A Day in the Life

Truth designed the student experience with two key principles in mind:

1. Students need to be prepared for life, not just for school.

2. Each student’s identity, voice, perspectives, and choices matter.  

These principles lay the foundation for a typical day-in-the-life of a student at The Sojourner Truth School.

Middle School students at Truth spend three hours each day in core academic blocks with a Humanities teacher and co-teacher and a STEM teacher and co-teacher. They also spend over an hour a day in an elective course (PE, art, yoga/farming, or Spanish).  Units are presented in 10-week cycles, and students regularly engage in real-world, authentic projects that encourage not only content and skill mastery but also creativity and personal expression. 

Students regularly meet with their mentors and squad classes.  These squads engage in relationship- and community-building activities, and students set personal goals and work with their mentor to create an individualized learning plan for their academic blocks.  Students in need of an extension, such as the 7th grader that may be ready for Algebra, can get it during this block. The same student may need extra support in reading or English-language, and will receive that intervention during this block as well.  Classmates may be collaborating on projects or working individually on content modules. These blocks are an opportunity for students to work in a small-group setting on whatever they need most, and to do so with the direct support of a mentor that stays with them over their entire middle school career.