North Shore Country Day is a JK-12 independent school near Chicago. In the classroom and beyond, our faculty provide the learning experiences and scaffolding of skills to develop students who are ready to actively engage the world and embody the school's mission through their lives. Our integrated JK-12 curriculum intentionally develops skills, dispositions and mindsets that complement content knowledge; promotes interdisciplinary and experiential learning; and demands engagement with multicultural and global issues. Our exceptional faculty understand the power of spiraling curricular threads, collaboration across grade levels and between disciplines. It develops enduring understanding in students and changes busy work to meaningful work. Our emphasis on the whole child ensures that critical and creative thinkers not only have the intellect but the compassion, communication skills and social awareness to engage constructively in the world around them.

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