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Chinese New Year

Chinese language students at Collegiate bring in the Year of the Pig. Read more
Slave Trail

A group of Collegiate seniors taking the River City Capstone class visit the Richmond Slave Trail with faculty members Rhiannon Boyd and Brad Cooke in their ongoing efforts to understand the James River and its impact on the Richmond region. Read More
Diwali

Students on both sides of our Mooreland campus celebrate Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights.
Ethics

Collegiate School hosts the Virginia High School Ethics Bowl each fall. Click here to learn about the qualifying event for the National High School Ethics Bowl Championship.
Costa Rica

Through in-field study and hands-on observation, students studied and compared the ecology of Virginia and Costa Rica.
Nicaragua

Rising seniors traveled to San Marcos, Nicaragua, to volunteer with Los Quinchos, a home for children, where they built relationships with the children and listened to their stories.
Hindu Holi

Fifth Grade boys celebrate the Hindu Holi Festival (Festival of Colors) welcoming spring.
Butterflies

The Lower School garden is an outdoor classroom for natural observations.

Responsible Citizenship

"Our Institute for Responsible Citizenship creates opportunities for our JK-12 students to engage with the world in meaningful ways that are connected to our curriculum. This programming is a critical component in helping them develop into inquisitive thinkers, responsible citizens and compassionate leaders."
Susan Droke
^{Chief Academic Officer}Responsible Citizenship Team

Our Mission

Responsible Citizenship at Collegiate empowers engaged, contributing citizens by nurturing students’ compassion, creativity and purpose.

Our School’s promise is to nurture and equip our students as scholars and citizens. The Institute for Responsible Citizenship brings together eight vital areas (known as pillars) of school life under one umbrella to ensure that each grade level builds on the foundation of the previous one, supporting students’ Junior Kindergarten through 12th Grade growth. The Institute provides a cohesive curriculum in these areas by fully immersing these pillars into the academic program.

The eight pillars of Responsible Citizenship are: Global Engagement, Inclusion, Economic Literacy, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Ethics, Civic Engagement, Service Learning.

Students in each division of our School exemplify their understanding of and growth in the tenets of each pillar 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.

Ignite - Responsible Citizenship Blog

Ignite offers insight into how our initiative is coming to life in the curriculum of Collegiate. By highlighting various examples of student projects and faculty reflections across the eight pillars, Ignite both informs and inspires the Collegiate community and beyond to continue to engage young people in their communities as a vehicle for powerful learning.

Recent Highlights

List of 3 news stories.

Collegiate Graduates Urged to Be Good Citizens
5/24/2019
Collegiate School’s 104th Commencement took place this morning, with members of the Class of 2019 seated onstage in front of the 2,000-plus family member and friends who gathered to celebrate them.

With 132 graduates headed to colleges and universities in 24 states (including two foreign countries), today’s ceremony celebrated a time of transition – both for the graduates and for the School.
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Collegiate Third Graders Hold Final Market Day
5/22/2019

Collegiate School 3rd Grade students this morning held their final Market Day, where they sold upcycled products to raise money for a charity.

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Fifth Grade Water Olympics Mark End of Yearlong Study of Water
5/22/2019

5th Graders competed in the annual Water Olympics on Grover Jones Field as a fun-filled end to their yearlong study of water.

The Middle Schoolers began their exploration last fall by reading A Long Walk to Water, through which they learned about one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan — Salva Dut — who now gives back to his homeland of South Sudan by building wells. They also raised funds to build a well in South Sudan.

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Speakers

United Nations Communications Officer Speaks to Upper Schoolers

Collegiate School today welcomed United Nations Communications Officer Felipe Queipo to speak to three senior Capstone classes about how the intergovernmental organization assists the 193 nations who belong to it.
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Richmond-Area Farmer Speaks to Collegiate Students About Nutrition

In honor of nutrition month, Collegiate School invited Joel Salatin, a farmer whose family owns and runs Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, to campus today to speak to Middle and Upper School students.
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Guest Speaker Inspires Students to Value Their Education

Collegiate Middle School teacher Kate Cunningham’s 5th Grade girls advisory took a proverbial trip around the world today when a special guest shared her experiences with education, literature and equal rights.
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ChangeMaker Club Welcomes Social Entrepreneurs to Learn From Their Experiences

Publisher Linda Cortright and filmmaker Stanzi Dorjai shared their experiences about building community, creating economic opportunity and relaying the stories of the people of Ladakh with Collegiate School 7th and 8th Graders involved in the ChangeMaker Club in October.
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Collegiate Parent Shares Immigration Story With 4th Graders

As part of Collegiate School 4th Graders' study of immigration, parents of our students are invited to visit and share their immigration stories. Today, the students heard from Dr. Bushra Mubashshir Shah, who immigrated from Kashmir in 2007 in search of a better life for her family. As 4th Graders have in previous years, this year's group also heard from John Dau, Collegiate's Global Scholar-in-Residence and a former Lost Boy of Sudan. Other parents are scheduled to visit soon.
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Students Explore Culture and Evolution With Visiting Dancer

Students in some of Collegiate School’s Upper School biology and Spanish classes participated in a co-curricular activity today that allowed them to study themes across two academic specialties and learn how African music, song and dance have influenced Latin American culture.

The students welcomed Kevin LaMarr Jones, founder, artistic director and choreographer for Claves Unidos ("United Rhythms”), a Richmond-based dance company, to demonstrate the interconnection between the two subjects.
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Local College Dean Explores Cultural Issues with Upper Schoolers

Dr. Corey Walker, Vice President and Dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University, visited Collegiate School today to discuss the issues of race, place and space with Upper Schoolers who are studying human rights, the statues on Monument Avenue and the culture of the City of Richmond.
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Renowned Artist Holds Master Classes with Collegiate Students

Collegiate School students spent three days this week learning from well-regarded artist Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., whose work has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stamperia del Tevere in Rome, and in numerous other museums and university settings around the nation and globe.
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Women in STEM Panel Features Collegiate Alums

Collegiate School hosted six local alums for a Women in STEM panel this afternoon in McFall Hall to share with Upper School girls their experiences, challenges and opportunities in science-, technology- and math-related careers.
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Because Baseball Founder Shares Story of Building Bridges

Collegiate Alum Kemp Gouldin '98 met with two groups of students interested in social entrepreneurship and social change today - the Middle School Changemakers Club and the International Emerging Leaders: Asia Capstone class for seniors - to share his vision for a charitable organization he established in Egypt several years ago.
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Collegiate Hosts Annual Global Issues Forum

Approximately 75 high school students from seven public and private schools in the Richmond area gathered at Collegiate School today for the Fifth Annual Global Issues Forum.
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Human Rights Activist Visits Collegiate

Martine Tchitchihe, a girls' education and human rights advocate, is visiting Collegiate School to speak with students across all divisions about her experience growing up in Cameroon and her pursuit of an education despite persecution from the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
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Israeli Educator Shares Middle East Perspective With Students

Collegiate School welcomed Zalman Spivack, an educator and licensed tour guide from Israel, as he spent time today with Middle and Upper School students discussing life in his country and issues affecting the Middle East.
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Rich Brown

Rich Brown, an instructor from Where There Be Dragons, a pioneer in the field of cross-cultural experiential education, has worked with community groups while living in Guatemala since 2013. He speaks about his experience in Maya activism and migration in the country. Read more about his visit to Collegiate here.
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David Hudson

David Hudson is a financial services professional with a 40-year career in commercial and investment banking as well as extensive experience in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.
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Kelsey Timmerman

Kelsey Timmerman is the New York Times bestselling author of WHERE AM I WEARING? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes and WHERE AM I EATING? An Adventure Through the Global Food Economy.
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The Reverend Benjamin P. Campbell

The Reverend Benjamin P. Campbell is an expert on poverty and race in the Richmond region.
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