The guiding principles of the Powell Institute for Responsible Citizenship are to empower engaged, contributing citizens by nurturing students' compassion, creativity, and purpose. The School's promise is to nurture and equip its students as scholars, citizens, and leaders. The principles of the Institute and promise of Collegiate are actualized through collaborations with faculty and integration of programs in JK-grade 12 that build the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for today's and tomorrow's world, through the identified areas of
Global Engagement,
Inclusion,
Economic Literacy,
Entrepreneurship,
Sustainability, and
Civic Engagement.
Through the Powell Institute for Responsible Citizenship, Collegiate supports and creates opportunities for the myriad ways individuals engage responsibly and compassionately with others. Just as there are many lenses through which we see the world and our place in it, The Powell Institute for Responsible Citizenship encourages our community to see that there are many lenses through which one can take action to make a better world.
Students in each division of our School exemplify their understanding of and growth in the tenets of these areas by participating in a
culminating capstone program. Our 4th Graders participate in
Envision Collegiate, our 8th Graders participate in
Envision Richmond, and our 12th Graders participate in
Envision Your World.