About Y2 Montessori School - Adolescent Community [Why] The adolescent is like a “ social newborn.” Their development will be followed and guided toward self-awareness, social cohesion, and readiness to enter the world as a prepared adult. [What] A full boarding community that betters, lives, and learns together, with the land, microeconomy, mixed-age learning, and independence as its essence. [When] 2021 - assemble faculty team & complete middle school curriculum design September 2022 - formally invite 7th graders to join the Program [Where] On the outskirts of Hsinchu, surrounded by farmland and the local reservoir that has many beautiful walks. A lovely place for a school for our younger adolescents, and provides plenty of scope for deep work for our high school students when that starts. [How] To re-define “place for learning” by building a cohort that’s integrated with the community and that’s co-shared by both faculty and students. Here, the adolescent’s wisdom and courage to forge on life’s adventures will be expanded.
