This class is offered for all ages.

Turning Green! is a hands-on horticultural class where we’ll explore how and where plants grow. We’ll build our own mini-greenhouses to grow and observe plants from seed to mature plant. We’ll get our hands dirty, visit some local greenhouses, and explore the many ways that plants and humans interact with one another. 

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Environmental Awareness, Identity, and Divergent Thinking

Class Size: 15 Students

This class is offered for all ages.

This course offers students an introductory opportunity to study musical concepts and explore different instruments. Come learn about chords, scales, key signatures, performance techniques, and more! It’s all about practicing new instruments, getting comfortable with repetition and engaging with new concepts.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Curiosity, Goal Setting, & Experiential Learning

Class Size: 10 Student Max

Recommended for Middle School ages but open to all.

Ever wonder why you are the way you are?  Why do we need sleep?  How do our brains work through conflict? Why do I act a certain way? We all have a brain, and brains are maps that we have to learn how to navigate in order to understand ourselves better.  This class will follow the interests that drive our students. We will bring awareness to and help them understand the brain functions underlying everyday activities.  All youth need to develop a set of core life skills to manage school, work, outside interests, and social relationships successfully. From the perspective of brain development, these skills include planning, focus, self-control, awareness, and flexibility. No one is born with these skills, but everyone can learn them through practice. This course will explain the science behind the core life skills that youth need.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Understand Self as a Learner, Self Awareness, & Empathy

Class Size: 20 Student Max

This class will provide tutoring and instruction for students working on Math concepts that are outside of the content for Algebra 1 & Geometry (we have a specific class dedicated to those concepts). This could include pre-algebra skills or advanced mathematics skills such as Algebra 2, Pre-Calc, or Calculus. The course provides computer programs for various math courses, tutorial videos, and worksheets to supplement classroom instruction. The teacher will work with students individually to craft goals based on their specific math needs.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Foundational Computation/Advanced Mathematics, Problem Solving, and Goal Setting

Class Size: 10 Student Max

This class is offered to all ages. 

This class is offered to all ages. 

Ever wonder how to write a song?  How about how to perform with other musicians?  Outside of “learning” an instrument there are so many other ways to engage with music.  This class is for more advanced musicians who already are fairly comfortable playing. Whether listening, performing, theorizing, or just talking music, this class applies the basics to more advanced concepts.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Leading Collaboration, Establish & Achieve Goals, & Design Thinking

Class Size: 10 Student Max

This class is offered for all ages. 

Lighthouse Overload! In this class, we will continue to work on our newspaper: if you have not been in the journalism class before you can still join. You will gain skills in interviewing, writing, research, and marketing. Not only will we work on a newspaper together but you will also learn law, history, and ethics through journalism. This class is perfect for anyone who wants to work on their writing/editing skills or anyone who is interested in research and media!

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Effective Research, Self-Awareness, & Collaboration

Class Size: 20 Student Max

Recommended for Middle School ages but open to all.

Are you interested in cooking? Do you want to explore drawing food in a classic or innovative way? Let’s make a cookbook! Calling all who are curious about food and/or art. In this class we will explore our favorite recipes and create new ones, look at food trends and cookbooks, talk about what flavors work and don’t, dive into the importance of food to culture, and how and why food varies across cultures. During the course of this class, we will combine all of our recipes into a collective cookbook where the pages will be filled with recipes, drawings, poems, and any other type of art that is sparked from our conversations about food. This class will be discussion based with reading and writing.   

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Collaboration, Goal Setting, & Experiential Learning

Class Size: 20 Student Max

This class is offered for all ages.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: TBD

Class Size: 15 Student Max

This course is offered to High School ages only. 

Earth Science is the study of how our planet formed and how it has changed through its estimated 4.5-million-year history. This class will explore the interactions between the land, ocean, atmosphere, and living things. We will explore weather, climate, plate tectonics, and other major geologic forces. We will also study how glaciers sculpted and formed our local New England landscape roughly 20,000 years ago. There will be a focus on the scientific method and how it has led to our current knowledge and understanding of Planet Earth. 

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Synthesis, Global Thinking, and Divergent Thinking.

Class Size: 15 Student Max

This class is offered for all ages. 

In Creative Writing, students will examine the elements that their favorite stories are built on, and learn about the various forms this craft can take. Students will share their writing with peers and engage in discussion about their stories. This class will be a fun space for writers of all levels to expand their skills and have a community to bounce their ideas off of. 

Every class will begin with a short writing exercise, then we will learn about the skills required to create a longer piece of fiction. These exercises will teach students how to turn their concepts into plots and learn how a story should flow. Most writing will take place in class, however, some homework may be required to finish the final project. There will be a large amount of writing in this class; please come ready to work! 

Creative Writing is for aspiring writers of all skill levels. Never written before? This class will cover the fundamentals. Write all the time? This class will reinforce and expand your writing abilities. 

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Synthesis, Effective Communication, & Goal Setting 

Class Size: 20 Student Max

This class is offered for all ages. 

Savannah will have four 45 min slots weekly open to students needing help with ELA or History or Art.  Ideally Savannah will work with the same 4-6 kids to gain traction in a 1:1 setting on independent projects or help with their schoolwork.

Class Size: 4 Student Max

Recommended for Middle School ages but open to all.

Students are guided by staff to take things apart – at first, physical objects (broken computers/electronics, old hard drives, obsolete appliances, toys, maybe small furniture, etc.) and draw conclusions about how the pieces work together, which parts are working well/not, which is basically a process of learning and applying analysis. From time to time, staff leading the class can bring in other things to “take apart,” like poems, advertisements, political ads, essays, paintings, etc. Students will apply the process of taking these things apart as if they were physical objects, and then draw conclusions about how the parts work, etc. (All the “parts” can be saved for either a culminating SYNTHESIS project – OR for another class in the following block called something like “Found Art” or “Putting Things Together,” with a focus on SYNTHESIS.)

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Experiential Learning, Problem Solving, Foundational Computation, or other competencies identified by individual students based on their demonstration of related skills or artifacts of learning.

This class is offered to all ages. 

Welcome to Lighthouse Space Program, where you create, direct, and build up your own space program! Join us to explore, innovate, and learn rocket science using the critically acclaimed simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Design your own spaceships, conduct experiments to unlock new features, and launch & pilot your own multi-stage rockets within a physics-accurate space flight simulation.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Divergent Thinking, Curiosity, & Applied Scientific Reasoning

Class Size: 15 Student Max

This course is offered to High School ages only. 

A workshop series of theater games, movement, short writing prompts, group conversations, story sharing, and creative challenges.

We will watch video selections from First Generation performances and other theater companies, and discuss the stories, themes and the different styles in the performances (monologues, poetry, storytelling, soundscapes, etc…). We’ll also learn about the skills and creative process involved in creating devised physical theater.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: TBD

Class Size: 12 Student Max

This course is offered to High School ages only. 

This class is aimed to concentrate on African American culture and its diverse multicultural history.  This class was created to give students a perspective and understanding of how cinema can tell the story of a culture through a movie camera. We will understand the power and effect that cinema has and continues to have in the United States. Special attention will be paid to the role cinema has in bringing attention to current events of the time when a film is produced and as well as the telling of historical and culturally relevant events. The relationship between film and the African American community will be discussed as well as critique.  This class is for those of High School age (15+) as some of the content is sensitive.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Identity, Social Justice Advocacy, & Advanced Social Sciences

Class Size: 20 Student Max

This course is offered to all ages. 

This course introduces students to the Spanish language so that they can develop proficiency on a basic level. Language learning in this course will focus on understanding and learning to speak simple phrases, learning limited vocabulary and very basic grammatical structures. This course also introduces students to the Spanish-speaking cultures of Spain, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. Students will learn similarities and differences in values, attitudes and actions as they investigate different cultures through a wide variety of resources (e.g., online resources, texts, videos).

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Voice, Global Thinking, & Effective Communication

Class Size: 15 Student Max

Recommended for Middle School ages but open to all.

Scandalous! History is not boring. It’s filled with scandal, gossip, and deeply hidden secrets. During this class, we will travel through time as we explore the depths of all the stories you won’t read about in a history book. Students should be prepared to take notes, ask questions, research and deep-dive into the lives of historic figures. Together we will create a historically accurate gossip magazine, with articles written by the students! This class is perfect for anyone seeking out more history classes, college prep students, and anyone who loves a good secret. 

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Global Thinking, Identity, Advanced Social Science

Class Size: 20 Student Max

This class is offered for all ages.

There’s no dividing line between robots and sculpture, drawing and science, engineering and crafting. You’ll learn to make what you want to make as long as we can find you the materials. Come with an idea or ask for one. Come with a favorite art and learn a new one to add to it. Use your mind and hands and eyes in concert to make things that are beautiful, that work, that you can use to express yourself and teach others.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Establishing & Achieving Goals, Problem Solving, & Design Thinking

Class Size: 15 Student Max

This course is offered to High School ages only. 

Using a holistic approach, students will familiarize themselves with the essentials of physical, mental, and social health. Participants will gain vital insights into how to protect, enhance and maximize their well-being throughout their lives. In this safe space, topics will include reproductive health, sexuality, and gender identity. With students’ suggestions and agreement, this classroom will be open to exploring other areas as they arise.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: TBD

Class Size: 15 Student Max

Recommended for Middle School ages but open to all. 

Zoology is the branch of biology that deals with the study of animals. This course will discuss this branch of biology by examining the following: 

• Definition of “animal”
• Species 
• Bodies of animals 
• What they eat
• How animals see, hear, smell
• Ancestral animals
• Reproduction
• Mysteries 

This class will take place with Ashley teaching on Zoom. Students will be required to take notes and complete two projects throughout the course of the block. There will also be a class field trip to an aquarium! 

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Goal Setting, Resilience, & Environmental Awareness

Class Size: 20 Student Max

This class is offered to all ages. 

In this class, we are going to make computers do things they didn’t know they could do. We’re going to build machines we didn’t know we wanted.  This course will be developing skills in programming, product design, 3-D design/printing and electronics.  We will think about concepts like user experience while problem-solving on multiple levels.  Ultimately, this is a class about imagining an idea and building it using computers.

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: Advanced Technical Skills, Design Thinking, & Leading Collaboration

Class Competencies/Learning Objectives:

Students will be evaluated on three competencies: TBD

This class is offered to male-identifying students of all ages. 

Recommended for Middle School ages but open to all.