Enrichments are six-week-long courses that provide learning experiences outside the regular curriculum. This curriculum allows students to sample from a variety of topics, skills, and experiences they might not otherwise discover. Their purpose is to nourish our students so that, over time, they tease out an array of interests across wide-ranging areas.
Once awakened, a new area of interest creates a “pocket of awareness” that alerts one to new information as it comes along later. And because students build many pockets of awareness through Enrichments, when new information comes, it is “sticky”, it adheres and builds on the framework that is in place.
For some of our graduates, enrichment courses they took at Sparhawk created enduring fascinations that are now avocations and for some, even vocations. Imagine the tapestry of lifetime learning as an ongoing work of art - of continuous creation. At Sparhawk, not only do we help students richly invest in their tapestry, adding color, texture, detail, in their very individual ways, we help them enlarge the very canvas on which they work. Enrichments are one way to do that.
Enrichments derive from traditional academic domains, and the arts, kinesthetic realms, and practical life-skills. In designing the courses, teachers emphasize a mix of two or three aspects of the Multiple Intelligences spectrum. This includes attention to visual, spatial, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, logical/mathematical, linguistic, and naturalistic lenses.