The Howard Gardner School

The Howard Gardner School

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The Howard Gardner School is a small, independent, educationally-progressive school serving grades 6-12. At HGS, we strive to approach learning from all angles.

This means integrating academic subjects, life experiences, and community participation. This approach allows each student to find their strengths and claim ownership over their education. Whether a student is looking for an alternative high school or middle school, an educational environment where their non-traditional learning style will be understood and appreciated, or a safe place with a nurturing and caring community, we can and will work with each student as the individual that they are.

Operating as usual

Photos from The Howard Gardner School's post 05/28/2020

Congratulations, seniors! Your teachers had a lot of fun surprising you with yard signs and can't wait to celebrate with you in person. Congrats! You did it!!

05/20/2020

For those of you interested in joining the HGS community for the 2020-2021 school year, we are still available to answer any questions you have. Feel free to call, email or leave us a message. You can also see more of what we do at HGS by following our Instagram !

The Howard Gardner School Group Order Form - Sign Up Today! 05/14/2020

Are you missing HGS? Do you want to "rep"?

Go ahead and order this year's Middle School, or High School shirt. Grab a new pair of sweats! OR get a first time offering of an HGS water bottle!

All orders must be in by May 22, 2020

Standard HGS hoodie, long-sleeve, short-sleeve:
https://www.customink.com/g/gsj0-00bp-aumq

High School t-shirt design done by Aidan McCoy class of 2021 (shades of green might be slightly different):
https://www.customink.com/g/gsj0-00c7-3a7j

Middle School t-shirt design done by Evelyn Babcock class of 2024:
https://www.customink.com/g/gsj0-00c6-gtzw

HGS water bottle:
https://www.customink.com/g/gsj0-00c7-2adn

HGS sweatpants (black):
https://www.customink.com/g/gsj0-00c6-gt54

The Howard Gardner School Group Order Form - Sign Up Today! I'm organizing our Custom Ink order. You can pay me online. Thanks!

05/12/2020

This year's senior projects are well under way (via Discord)! We're so proud of the Class of 2020 and would like to congratulate them on jobs very well done.They created bee and butterfly gardens, perfected culinary delights, streamed games and created podcasts, designed fitness blogs and nature guides, translated Amharic poetry, created animations from scratch and came up with brilliant digital designs. Bravo!👏

Virtual Arts and Sciences Fest 2020: Ecology and Env. Science 05/07/2020
Virtual Arts and Sciences Fest 2020: Ancient Civilizations 05/07/2020
Virtual Arts and Sciences Fest 2020: Chemistry 05/07/2020
Virtual Arts and Sciences Fest 2020: High School Electives 05/07/2020
Virtual Arts and Sciences Fest 2020: Middle School 05/07/2020
Virtual Arts and Sciences Fest 2020: High School Math 05/07/2020
Virtual Arts and Sciences Fest 2020: Independent Student Artwork 05/07/2020
HGS VETERAN PROJECT 04/23/2020

Last year, six of our seniors embarked on an oral history project with local Vietnam Veterans as part of their "America in the 1960's" history class. They researched the war, came up with questions, interviewed the veterans (and recorded/edited the videos!), transcribed their experiences, and made a website from scratch. It launched at last year's Arts & Sciences Festival, but we're sharing it now (in the spirit of our upcoming Virtual Arts & Sciences Festival). A job very well done. Enjoy!

https://www.hgsveteranproject.org/

HGS VETERAN PROJECT

Timeline photos 04/23/2020

Keep your eyes open for our annual Arts & Sciences festival! This year it will be virtual, but we’re excited to share the unique and creative stuff our students and faculty have been working on all year. Stay tuned! Until then, here’s a sneak peek.

Photos from The Howard Gardner School's post 04/17/2020

Keeping the spirit of HGS alive with our Community Content! Each week, we’re offering a variety of unique virtual classes for our students. Featured here: mask sewing and arcade building with Wendy, origami with Kim, carburetors with Alex, and improv and documentary discussions with Kayla. 📽📚✂️🎨 @ The Howard Gardner School

Photos from The Howard Gardner School's post 04/17/2020

The results of today's virtual art lesson from the infamous . Paintings by Grace, Naomi, Kim, and the original for reference.

Photos from The Howard Gardner School's post 04/07/2020

🧪🧫💡 @ The Howard Gardner School

Photos from The Howard Gardner School's post 03/27/2020

Scenes from the middle school! @ The Howard Gardner School

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4913 Franconia Road
Alexandria, VA
22310

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 4pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4pm
Wednesday 8am - 4pm
Thursday 8am - 4pm
Friday 8am - 4pm