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learning trips have included: Grade 5
traveling outside Mainland China to
Taiwan, where students explored ancient
history and culture. Grade 8’s History,
Literature and Math curricula has included
students traveling to the Great Wall while
learning the history of the Silk Road.
To delve deeper into Keystone’s ethos
that draws on Confucianism and better
understand several approaches to learning,
grade 7 students traveled to Shandong
province to explore the home of Confucius,
climb Mount Tai and visit Qingdao. Grade
9 shared their learning and skills with
students at a local school in Hunan. Grade
10 recently traveled to Yunnan and hiked
the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Learning by doing is one of the
penultimate forms of learning, only to be
surpassed by a learning that is an act
in response to another’s need. This is the
highest form of learning and exactly the
education we want for Keystone students.
Recent service learning immersive lessons
included groups of students, teachers
and staff traveling to Chengdu in China, to
Nepal, and to Thailand. One group worked
in an elephant village. Another helped with
restoration efforts in an earthquake-torn
village in Nepal. And the third group built
homes in Chengdu for those affected by the
2008 earthquake. Closer to home, service
initiatives are student led, and always
hands-on from working at animal shelters to
raising awareness about world hunger.

Picking tea leaves in
Fujian province.

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Grade 4 students perform
with shadow puppets on
their first Experiential
Learning trip to the ancient
town of Pinyao.

Students elect to spend
their spring vacation
rebuilding homes for
families affected by the 2008
earthquake in Chengdu.