Heritage Xperiential Learning School

Heritage Xperiential Learning School Heritage Xperiential Learning School Heritage Xperiential Learning School, with its commitment to an innovative project-based pedagogy and integrated curriculum, has established a formidable reputation for itself as a progressive, innovative school in just over a decade that it has been in operation. Heritage Xperiential Learning School has regularly found representation in the top 10 schools of the country as much for its academic reputation and infrastructure, as for its focus on students with special needs or those from economically weaker sections. Other areas where the school has been cited for excellence include co-curricular activity, leadership and management, sports education, life skills education and conflict resolution and parent involvement. The school has always invested heavily in its teachers professional learning and development and, today, many of its teachers are trainers and facilitators who are making other schools aware of its experiential learning methodology. Its fully air-conditioned campus is spread across a sprawling 18.75 acres and is equipped with one of the best infrastructures among schools in the NCR. Its leadership team consists of three alumni from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and one alumnus from the Harvard Business School. Heritage Xperiential Learning School Heritage Xperiential Learning School Heritage Xperiential Learning School (HXLS) Gurgaon (Formerly, The Heritage School, Gurgaon) is focused on deeper, authentic and inter-disciplinary learning. Founded in 2003 as a not-for-profit private co-educational school, HXLS today is a community of over 3100 students and an enviable student to staff ratio of 9:1. Although HXLS is just 14 years young, it has consistently been ranked among the top 5 day schools in India. Known for its progressive pedagogy and community bound curriculum, HXLS is also one of the few inclusive schools in India with a well- integrated special needs program. Although we offer 3 curricula (National Board, IGCSE and IBDP), we attempt to be curriculum agnostic through our own organically developed curriculum that stretches the boundaries of prescribed national and international curricula. Housed in a beautiful 13- acre campus, HXLS today is one of the most reputed learning communities for educators OUR INSPIRATION The last fourteen years have been a learning journey for the school. We are deeply inspired and committed to the philosophies of Kurt Han, Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and J Krishnamurthy. Our curriculum has been designed and curated organically over the years and reflects some of these core learning principles - for our Students, Parents and Teachers. Many of our academic protocols and processes have been inspired by cutting edge research in the field of education. Some of them include Making learning visible (Hattie), Understanding by Design (Higgens and Mctighe), Curriculum mapping (Jacobs), Continuous School Improvement, Data teams and Response to Intervention (Bernhardt), Danielson Framework, Marzano protocols, integrated projects/learning expeditions (Levy and Berger from Expeditionary Learning Schools, USA), student internships (Littky from Big Picture Schools), makers space (Trishman from Harvard Project Zero) etc. OUR LEARNING PRINCIPLES: Ø Children Learn by Doing Ø Connected to the real world through community bound projects Ø Content is an excuse to build Craftsmanship, Culture and Character (inspired by the principles of expeditionary learning schools, USA) Ø Productive and Creative work as a medium of teaching and learning Ø Children as active partners in learning Ø Real freedom, empowerment and citizenship through classroom pedagogy and corridor culture Ø Children learn from each other. Power of Crew Work Ø Integrated and whole-child development Ø Parents/Community as partners View our Brochure