Landmark's Vision for the Next 50 Years

Since our 50th anniversary, we have been reflecting on our past and dreaming about our future. In partnership with our trustees, administrators, faculty, and parents, we are optimizing our vision for the next 50 years (details to come in 2024), which will serve as our course for Landmark's next chapter.

Here is just a taste of what is in store.


LANDMARK MOMENTS

In 1971, Landmark School was founded to challenge the status quo of what students who learn differently could experience within an educational setting. That thread, woven through our history, propels us into the future. 

BUILDING PROJECTS

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This Meeting the Moment initiative is a symbol of our dedication to nurturing our students' unique talents and abilities. Tangible aspects of this effort are two exciting building projects.

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PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE

Landmark graduates are ready to
meet the moment. 

In an ever-changing, interconnected world, the strengths of neurodiverse learners will be valued more than ever. Whether with us for two years or ten, our foundation, rooted in Landmark's original Six Teaching Principles™, is the compass that directs how we design instruction to empower students to innovate, solve problems, lead with impact, and create good in an ever-changing, interconnected world—no matter where they go or what they choose to pursue.

The following categories represent skills and characteristics that Landmark's approach is designed to instill in our students: Self-Awareness and Self-AdvocacyLiteracy and CommunicationProblem-Solving and PerseveranceEmpathy and Perspective

Self-Awareness and Self-Advocacy

When students who learn differently understand why and how their brains process information, it provides them with an empowering narrative and increases their capacity to learn. In a rapidly changing world, an individual’s ability to learn and adapt throughout their career is an essential skill.

Literacy and Communication

Despite difficulties with reading, writing, and spelling, many students who learn differently think outside the box and often grasp abstract concepts. These are often difficult skills to teach but when they are intrinsic attributes, they help people with dyslexia and related learning differences make sense of a technologically driven and complicated world

Problem-Solving and Perseverance

Learning differently necessitates understanding how you learn best, a vital skill in an ever-changing world and workforce. Problem solving, creativity, and reasoning are among the top ten key skills for the future—skills that often come naturally to people with dyslexia and releated language-based learning differences. 

Empathy and Perspective

Science has proven that students who learn differently often innately have a greater sense of empathy and resilience than traditional learners—skills that are essential for success in life and work. 

Our students will find success
because they learn differently,
not despite it.

 

Landmark students process information differently than traditional learners. This difference can create immense challenges in traditional academic settings. But turning left when the rest of the world goes right can also create immense opportunity. Landmark School transforms dyslexia and related language-based learning differences from perceived disabilities into valued differences.