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Academic Overview

Academics to inform
your future.

At Walker’s, learning is a vigorous journey where students and educators challenge one another to grow intellectually.

Students learn to identify real-world challenges and create solutions while developing the skills that are essential for college, career, and global citizenship. Our learners take intellectual risks through persistence and resilience which helps them improve and grow as life-long learners. Ultimately, wisdom is gained through experience, mastery, and reflection.

We recognize that learning is greatly impacted by social interaction so central to teaching and learning at Walker’s is the development of deep and lasting relationships within the community. Social connections, formed within a culture of respect and trust, enable students’ individual growth and enhance our students’ understanding of their potential to affect those around them — and themselves.   

At Walker’s, we believe that demonstrable skills are the best measure of learning including literacy, critical thinking, a global perspective, taking initiative, leadership, collaboration, communication, and creativity.

Our Philosophy of Learning

UPPER SCHOOL

Knowledge will always be important, but what you do with that knowledge is even more important. Walker’s high academic standards stretch students to the place where they are motivated to direct their own learning. Our faculty guide students as they develop essential skills to meet challenges and opportunities today — and in the future — in whatever areas of interest they choose to pursue.

MIDDLE SCHOOL

At The Ethel Walker Middle School, we place girls at the center of our educational design process. Girls thrive in our classrooms because they are afforded a sense of agency and a platform where they develop their voices and learn how to use them effectively to have a say in their own education. Math, science, history, English, creative arts, and world languages (Latin, Spanish, or French) are the core of the Walker’s Middle School curriculum.

Middle School Academics

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Signature Courses

Honors Research Seminar
Visiting Writer Seminar
Inequality in the U.S.
Tropical Ecology lab
Advanced Multivariable Calculus class
Latin class
Honors Research Seminar

Walker’s is among only five high schools in the United States invited to participate in the Tiny Earth Network (TEN), an innovative program formulated at Yale University that encourages students to pursue careers in science through hands-on and real-world experience.

Visiting Writer Seminar

In Walker’s Visiting Writer Seminar, students have the special opportunity to immerse themselves in a study of one writer’s works. The course culminates with a visit by that person to the school for a series of master classes and a public reading to our community.

Inequality in the U.S.

Inequality in the United States introduces students to systems of social inequality in the United States. Students investigate the structural, interpersonal, and social dimensions of oppression.

Tropical Ecology

Tropical Ecology is designed to provide students with a general understanding of tropical ecology and conservation and to enhance student research skills.

Advanced Multivariable Calculus

Advanced Multivariable Calculus covers topics that are not currently included in a traditional high school calculus course but may be included in a college-level calculus course.

Holding Out for a Hero

In this yearlong course, students explore Roman ideas of loyalty, loss and leadership through Virgil’s text. Through a study of meter, word order, poetic device, and vocabulary, the course grapples with the themes of love and death, war and refugees, family, and fate.