Wildwood IB World Magnet is an established International Baccalaureate school and educates K-8 Grade
Wildwood IB World Magnet is an established, wall-to-wall International Baccalaureate school, authorized for 10 years in the Primary Years Programme (PYP, grades K-5) and 15 years in the Middle Schools Programme (MYP, grades 6-8). Wildwood is a neighborhood magnet school, unique in that it accepts any child from within its neighborhood boundaries but also fills seats through a citywide non-selectiv
e lottery. A further unique feature of Wildwood is that it is one story, and until it became overcrowded was used as a receiving school for children with severe mobility issues and medical fragilities, as well as for children seeking placement from a special needs pre-school. The combination of neighborhood-magnet and ADA receptivity has created a diverse student body economically, racially, intellectually, and with varying physical abilities. The parent community is extremely active and supportive through an elected Local School Council, a very involved Parent-Teacher Association, and a newly formed Friends of Wildwood group. Community events, fundraising, and supportive local policies contribute to a school culture of growth, enrichment, and continuous improvement. Within this context the professional community of Wildwood teachers and staff benefit from and build a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility for planning, implementing, and assessing a world class curriculum based on IB principles. IB Personalized: Our IB school culture and practices prioritize student ownership of learning, student choice and voice, deep conceptual understanding, application of knowledge through innovation and entrepreneurship, global citizenship, activism, and reflection. Inquiry and project based learning are utilized throughout all content and every grade. Given the robust learning culture and professional community already in place, we seek to continually enhance and enrich our students’ experience of school. We want to increase each student’s sense of ownership of and investment in their own learning. We believe that implementing structures, tools, systems, and processes of personalized learning is the most effective and ethical way to build self-directed learners who want to learn, who know how to learn, and who have the skills and strategies to learn whatever they need to learn in order to do whatever they to need to do to improve their own lives and the communities and world in which they live and work.
