Slope School | An Acton Academy

Application Form

Welcome to the Slope School new student application! We’re looking forward to meeting you!

This application process is meant to be fun and useful. No long essays required! Just share with us about yourselves and your goals.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apply@slope.school. Also, it may be wise to complete your answers on your computer first, so you don’t accidentally lose your work.

Basic Info

Parent 1 First Name

Parent 1 Last Name

Parent 2 First Name

Parent 2 Last Name

Email address

Phone number

Name and age of each child interested in Slope School.

For New Students

1. What makes you most excited about Slope School and why?

2. What makes you most nervous about Slope School and why?

3. This is a chance for you to be creative! Please choose a project or work you're proud of creating to share with us. Then grab a phone or tablet, ask a family member or friend for help, and take a quick video introducing yourself and showing and describing your work. (For the video, it's likely easiest to upload to Google Drive, Dropbox, or Youtube and mark it "Unlisted" so you'll be sharing it just with us, then include the link.) Project URL(s) (one per line)

Project file(s)

Upload file(s)

For Parents

1. What is one problem you would like to solve in your lifetime and how would you start?

2. At the ideal school for your child, what percent (%) of a normal week would be spent:

Learning through PEER DISCUSSION + DEBATE?

On STUDENT-DRIVEN LEARNING?

Learning through GROUP LECTURE?

Learning through DESIGNING + BUILDING + EXPERIMENTATION?

3. If you were to add any one book to the Slope School library for the future students of the middle school and high school studios read, what would it be? Why?

4. Tell us about each of your child(ren)’s previous learning environments. If we ask your child(ren)’s current teachers about them, what words will they use to praise them as learners? What behaviors or attitudes will they say need more work?

5. If you have more than one child, how many of your children are you considering enrolling at Slope School? Please describe each of your children in 1-2 sentences and why you are or are not considering Slope School for each child.

6. We believe the family is the center of learning for children. We'd like to understand the traditions in your home around learning, as well as your expectations for involvement in your child's learning at Slope School as a parent. Please describe in detail your current involvement with your children's learning (academic, emotional/relationships, physical, spiritual). Feel free to provide detail about each individual child.

7. Do any of your children applying to Slope School have health concerns that we should know about? If yes, please explain for each child.

Do any of your children applying to Slope School have special needs that may affect learning? If yes, please explain for each child.

Research

Slope School embraces a new model of learning rich with opportunity. Please dive deeply into the resources below, then share with us your takeaways:

Slope School events
Slope School website
Slope School videos
Courage to Grow, by Laura Sandefer
Unschooling Rules, by Clark Aldrich
Laura Sandefer’s Acton Academy Parents Blog

1. After researching, what do you believe are the top three reasons that Slope School would be a great fit for your child(ren)?

2. What are the 3+ most important questions or concerns you have?