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Today's students need skills and experiences that empower them to navigate an ever-changing world. At Tilton, we believe wellness, confidence, and achievement all begin with our essential skills.
Essential Skills
Creation uncovers possibility.
Creation generates solutions to address needs and opportunities-through empathy, analysis, ideation, and iteration.
Inquiry builds understanding.
Inquiry looks beyond the idea of easy problems and simple solutions. It seeks multiple data types, examines different angles, thinks critically, and questions the role of bias in the interpretation of facts—and in the formulation of opinions.
Communication generates meaning.
Communication involves moving an audience toward understanding or action through the variety of media available to us. Reciprocally, communication also engages in active listening to understand the ideas shared by others.
Mindfulness develops perspective.
Mindfulness is the set of intentional practices to develop self-awareness and understand one’s connection to the larger community and environment.
Play fearlessly embraces the new.
Play engages the world for curiosity’s sake, for the purpose of trying something new, without fearing the consequences. Play is our word for raw experimentation, pure research, and harmless—but insightful—trial and error.
Areas of Self-Discovery
Encompassing all aspects of school life at Tilton — and leveraging the unique power of our residential campus — five areas of Self Discovery ensure that students push the boundaries of their own learning.
- Academics
- Afternoon Programs
- Community Life
- Grade Level Programming
- Personal Pursuits
Sources of Guidance
Skills and experiences are nothing without relationships—especially when you need a little help—so our students are supported by a powerful system of guidance.
- Standards-Based Grading
- College Counseling
- Advisory
- Student-Led Conferences
- Academic Support