Welcome to the High School!

Crew, Not Passengers


Crew is belonging. It's the sense you get when you've persevered through a challenge, as a team. Crew is understanding. It's the commonality you feel when you stand together and reflect on your accomplishment. Crew is connection. It's the personal growth you experience through a shared sense of purpose. Everything we do at RSS is with Crew in mind.

How We Teach & What We Do

​EXPEDITIONS 

We take a topic and look at it from multiple perspectives.

We invite experts to help with our understanding.

We go out in the field and learn by doing.

We see how what we are learning matters in the real world.

We ask how our learning can make a difference.

We show what we know and get feedback from the community, not just our parents.


VOYAGES

We use the natural world as a classroom.

We do hands on, authentic learning in the real world.

We embrace conservation and steward ship.

We use collaboration and communication to solve problems.

We get out of our comfort zones.

We learn how to lead through preparedness and collaboration.

We engage and empower ourselves and others by using empathy, belonging, and respect for the environment.

We grow humans and recognize the humanity of others.



What Students Say About RSS:



"Try to explain the sky. It’s vast, colorfully bipolar, it’s all encompassing. Running away with a head of adjectives, you realize there is so much more to it than that. It’s such a big part of our everyday lives that, to a new mind, it may be impossible to explain accurately. RSS is my sky." K.M.

"There’s one thing that makes a school better than others. I’m not talking about athletics or even academics. It’s when you walk into a school and you can see the bonds that the teachers and students hold. That’s crew." T.R.

"I don’t have two years until I’m in the world. I’m in the world right now. I am living. School isn’t preparing me for life. School is helping me live right now." E.K.

"It really felt, in those few fleeting moments, like the essence of crew. We weren’t just looking at the rocks, we were climbing them. We didn’t just admire the beautiful waterfall, we plunged into the water." B.A.

"At RSS I feel like everyone is a team." M.K.

"When we do group exercises and have to come to a solution with others, [I realized] I can’t do everything on my own." D.C.

"The word Crew is like the word family." S.G.