Students Achieving Global Excellence

About Us


SAGE Academy seeks to develop a community of reflective learners of academic excellence who actively promote tolerance, respect, and understanding as citizens of the world.

SAGE Academy is a student-centered educational setting providing life preparedness for a global community and global environment.

To provide an academic environment of excellence for secondary students which encourages life-long learning; respect for a diverse, global community; awareness of the earth’s limited resources; and understanding of social justice issues throughout the world.

To promote active participation of students as citizens of the world and to offer multiple and diverse opportunities for leadership in team dynamics and problem solving experiences.

Why SAGE Academy?


American businesses are increasingly importing engineers and programmers because they cannot find enough technically adept workers within our borders.


Average American workers now will change careers between two and three times during their lives, making life-long learning an essential part of adult life.


Companies are increasingly global in nature, and have found employees who are rich in multi-cultural fluency to be a vital aspect of their continued success.

A Fortune 500 survey of top ten most desirable employee skills shows that the needs of today's businesses have changed profoundly:

 

 
1.  Teamwork
2.  Problem Solving
3.  Interpersonal Skills
4.  Oral Communication
5.  Listening Skills


A New Approach

 		  6.  Personal/Career Development
  7.  Creative Thinking
  8.  Leadership
  9.  Goal Setting/Motivation
10.  Writing Skills

SAGE Academy takes a fundamentally different approach to education, focusing foremost on learning:


  • how to learn
  • how to think critically
  • how to problem solve
  • how to teach others


Teaching students to memorize the right answers limits them to what is already known. Teaching students how to ask the right questions empowers them to find the answer to any problem that business, technology, politics, or any other challenge real life presents.

The best of today's and tomorrow's technologies will enhance human interaction by:


  • video-conferencing around the world
  • emailing experts on various subjects
  • mining the Internet - the most dynamic and current textbook anywhere

 

The Results


SAGE promotes and creates academic excellence of all students by offering diverse opportunities to excel.

Student outcomes:


  • self-starters
  • self-motivated, life-long learners
  • self-confident, yet skilled in teamwork
  • leaders of tomorrow

 

SAGE encourages students to pursue their passion subjects, making connections which often yield profound creative possibilities:


  • new business models
  • new technological inventions
  • new medical or biomedical technologies
  • new product ideas
  • new solutions to old political problems

 


These discoveries drive economic growth, improvements to standards of living, and ensure longer and happier lives for people.


The Proof


For further reading on the proven track record of these educational approaches:


  • The Learning Revolution by Gordon Dryden & Jeannette Vos 
  • Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner 
  • Frames of Intelligence by Howard Gardner 
  • Cooperative Learning by Johnson & Johnson 
  • Understanding by Design by Jay McTighe & Grant Wiggins 
  • The Quality School by William Glasser 
  • Introducing Educational Reconstruction by Darrol Bussler (ed.) et al