{"id":11,"date":"2020-06-15T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside-staging-new\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:54:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/information\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Harborside Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Harborside Academy is a choice school for grades 6 through 12, located in Kenosha, Wisconsin.<\/p>\r\n<h2>School Highlights<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Strong emphasis on service learning and community service. Students earn well over 100 hours of community service and complete their own service project before reaching graduation.<\/li>\r\n<li>Habit of Success traits, which include, tenacity, integrity, leadership, respect, humor and cooperation, are emphasized and reflected upon daily.<\/li>\r\n<li>Curriculum is restructured and designed into expeditions to engage students in learning through expert speakers and fieldwork, but can take place outside of the classroom and be experienced first-hand.<\/li>\r\n<li>Students attend daily Crew, a class designed to feel like family and develop a strong, caring group that provides support and assistance to one another. Our motto is \u201cWe are Crew.\u201d<\/li>\r\n<li>A nationally recognized credentialed mentor school in EL Education for the implementation of the Core Practices model, which develops students in three areas of achievement: Academics, Character, and High Quality Work.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/09\/Roots-of-EL-Kurt-Hahn.pdf\">Roots of EL &#8211; Kurt Hahn<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and their \u201cDelta Project\u201d decided to fund a new high school, one of 20 new high schools throughout the country, in Kenosha.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Harborside Academy, like all schools that are a part of the Delta Project, uses the Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) model. ELOB schools combine rigorous academic content and real world projects &#8212; learning expeditions &#8212; with active learning and community service.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In 2012, Harborside Academy merged with Paideia Academy, a charter middle school. Harborside now serves grades 6-12.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Makes Harborside Unique?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>It is research based<\/li>\r\n<li>A joint emphasis on character and academics<\/li>\r\n<li>A high quality, program for professional development<\/li>\r\n<li>Focus on Character and an Ethic of Service<\/li>\r\n<li>Continuing relationships with a growing system of schools around the country<\/li>\r\n<li>Quality control in place<\/li>\r\n<li>Learning Intensives<\/li>\r\n<li>Outward Bound<\/li>\r\n<li>Crew<\/li>\r\n<li>Engaging Instruction<\/li>\r\n<li>All students are college bound<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harborside Academy is a choice school for grades 6 through 12, located in Kenosha, Wisconsin. School Highlights Strong emphasis on service learning and community service. Students earn well over 100 [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":13525,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16820,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/16820"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/harborside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}