As you learn more about Stone, you’ll learn what a special place it really is.

The last line of our mission is probably our most direct – we are in business to “make the world a measurably better place” and we believe the best way to do that is to supply deeply curious students with the types of academic skills and conceptual frameworks they will need to be change-makers in their community, on college campuses, and in the world.  

To do it, we work with purpose and intention to design learning experiences which enable our students to find their authentic selves through authentic work.  We believe that when our students are positioned to be co-architects of their education – in concert with equally curious faculty colleagues who are experts in their field – the choices our students make as they work iteratively through increasingly sophisticated problems enables them to better understand their agency, enables them to find their voice, enables them to find their true selves.  

To do that – to create the space and the community within which curious people are able to explore and iterate – we work with intention and purpose to design a remarkable student experience which cultivates care, mutual respect and responsibility, joyfulness, and inspiration.  As you get to know us, you’ll see we do a lot of things differently than other schools – we take our fun very seriously, we like to build trebuchets, we throw big bonfires, we play a lot of games – but it all serves a real and important purpose.

We believe that a remarkable student community makes remarkable problem-solvers.

And we believe that remarkable problem-solvers are positioned best to make the world a measurable better place.

I do hope you will continue to learn more about us.  And if there is anything I can help you better understand about our school and our community, please be sure to email me at simpsonm@stoneindependent.org or schedule a meeting with me on my calendly.