About
Our Approach
CH-CH's Mission
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Multiple Intelligences
At CH-CH, we know that every learner enters the classroom with a unique set of intellectual, personal, and academic strengths.
Classes at CH-CH stimulate and challenge students by tapping into their different “intelligences” as defined and inspired by Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University, who developed the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Dr. Gardner proposes that there are nine “intelligences” that schools need to stimulate and support. At CH-CH, teachers design lessons that address the range of these intelligences, thus giving students multiple avenues into the essential skills and understandings in each course.
Read more about the Multiple Intelligences at CH-CH.
Read more about the Multiple Intelligences at CH-CH.
A Day in the Life at CH-CH
Competency Based Learning: Insight for Student Success and Growth
Our Competency-Based Learning (CBL) approach in grades 8–9 aligns our Portrait of a Graduate with authentic learning experiences, allowing students to begin their journey by developing a strong foundation for future success. Students receive meaningful, evidence-based feedback on specific competencies, then work with faculty to identify pieces of work that demonstrate their progress and preparedness.
This personalized approach empowers CH-CH students to become active participants in their educational journey and develop a wide range of transferable skills essential for academic and personal success. By meeting students where they are and providing multiple pathways to demonstrate mastery, CBL at CH-CH helps each learner build confidence and discover their strengths & interests across the curriculum. Students develop the skills, knowledge, and self-awareness that serve them well throughout their time at CH-CH, their transition to college, and beyond.
Portrait of a CH-CH Graduate
At Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, our Portrait of a Graduate defines the essential traits and capabilities we cultivate in every student throughout their educational journey.
List of 7 items.
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Communication
Communicating ideas in multiple ways across multiple disciplines rightfully occupies a place of primacy in educational environments. As graduates of a college preparatory school, CH-CH students will demonstrate the ability to communicate knowledge and make persuasive arguments in a variety of modes as both foundational and advanced areas of their studies. -
Collaboration
In an increasingly interconnected world, CH-CH graduates need to be able to work with others towards common goals. This work in collaboration will take the form of responsible citizenship, the ability to function effectively within a group, and a greater understanding of the skills and talents needed to both lead and follow effectively. -
Academic Habits
CH-CH graduates will develop and hone strong academic habits during their time here. Grounded in an understanding of themselves as learners, students will develop personalized executive function skills, demonstrate engagement with their courses, persist in a positive way through personal and academic setbacks, and become capable guides of their own educational experience. -
Critical Thinking & Analysis
CH-CH graduates think critically and analytically about their work and the world around them by asking critical questions, breaking down problems, and assessing the validity of their sources and data. They approach real-world problems with empathy and a commitment to building and refining solutions in both quantitative and qualitative domains. -
Creativity
In an increasingly complex world, solving problems effectively requires greater creativity. As part of their CH-CH experience, our graduates demonstrate their ability to link concepts between and among disciplines, to solve problems and express themselves in new ways, and develop personal approaches to creativity that allow them to tap these abilities in a variety of situations. -
Cultural Fluency
The world has become increasingly interconnected and interwoven with citizens from all over the globe interacting and living in community. This ongoing and inescapable change means that people from a multiplicity of cultures now interact daily as fellow students, co-workers, neighbors, and friends. Today’s citizens require a high degree of cultural fluency, and at CH-CH our students demonstrate this through acquisition of a second language, as well as exploration, across disciplines, of cultural differences and the value of diversity in creating strong communities. -
Community Engagement for Social Justice
At Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, we seek to develop responsible and engaged citizens who challenge oppression and inequity and who advance social justice through service, leadership, collaboration, participation and the valuing of diverse perspectives and experiences. Through this authentic engagement with others, our graduates develop the moral strength and personal integrity to create greater equity, opportunity, and justice in their communities and the wider world.
Path to College
In our intentionally small classrooms, with an average class size of just over ten, teachers engage students’ strengths, create multiple avenues to academic success, and help students grow in their self-advocacy and self-confidence. All this work leads into a personalized college counseling process where students find, apply to and attend colleges that fit the student they have become and the person they want to be.
Learn more about how CH-CH prepares students for college.
Learn more about how CH-CH prepares students for college.
Differentiated Instruction
We create multiple paths to mastery of the skills and content provided, ensuring that all students have the opportunity to engage with the material in a meaningful and deep way.
Differentiated instruction is an approach to teaching that recognizes two basic facts: all students are capable of high achievement and all students come to each class with a varied set of strengths and challenges. In order to ensure achievement of essential skills and understandings, CH-CH teachers come to know their students well and provide them with a variety of entry points and academic strategies that allow them to leverage their individual strengths in the classroom. Our highly trained faculty, over 70% of whom possess advanced degrees, engage in thousands of hours of professional development annually in order to develop their content area knowledge and their pedagogical “toolbox” in order to best help CH-CH students achieve academic success and prepare themselves for college.
Our Schedule
Every day, in every class, our teachers strive to connect the material and skills being taught to the learners’ strengths which extends and further develops students overall capacities and performance.
A key structure which supports this work is our academic schedule. Classes meet three times per week with each meeting lasting 70 minutes. This frequency and class length allows teachers to conduct multiple activities within each block, giving learner multiple ways to access the material, and significantly decreases the harried nature of the typical high school day, allowing students to enter each classroom more at ease and ready to learn.
Another avenue of support for students is our office hours which take place four times per week for 40 minutes per session. All teachers are available in their classrooms or office during this period and students are encouraged (and at times, required) to see their instructors with any questions or difficulties they might be encountering. Students entering the 9th grade are required to attend office hours blocks daily; as students demonstrate progress in their academics they are given the opportunity to choose which teachers to see during this time. For our 11th and 12th grade students, office hours are designed to mimic what they will find at the college and university level, which allows students to develop the time management and self-advocacy skills they will need when moving on to the next stage in their education.
Another avenue of support for students is our office hours which take place four times per week for 40 minutes per session. All teachers are available in their classrooms or office during this period and students are encouraged (and at times, required) to see their instructors with any questions or difficulties they might be encountering. Students entering the 9th grade are required to attend office hours blocks daily; as students demonstrate progress in their academics they are given the opportunity to choose which teachers to see during this time. For our 11th and 12th grade students, office hours are designed to mimic what they will find at the college and university level, which allows students to develop the time management and self-advocacy skills they will need when moving on to the next stage in their education.
In addition to these scheduling structures, both our classes and overall teacher load are kept intentionally small, so our teachers can develop the close understanding and relationship with each student that will forward their individual learning. Beginning in the 9th grade, where classes average nine students, and our overall teacher load is approximately 35, we make sure that all our students are known well by their teachers. Class sizes grow in the upper grades, to an average of 13, as we begin to prepare our students for college and expect from them the self-advocacy skills they will need to make that transition successful. Throughout a student’s whole time here at CH-CH, he or she will be known well by every teacher…and this understanding serves as yet another layer of support in the learning process.
Distinguished Scholar Program
Looking to explore your passions in Math and Science, Visual Arts, or the Humanities? Take a deep dive into a scholar diploma program like no other! Gain deep knowledge and mastery of these subjects and more. Our faculty mentors guide you through a personalized exploration, nurturing your skills and creativity, all culminating in a distinguished diploma in this area of study.
Through a dynamic blend of coursework and enriching external experiences, our program equips you with a toolkit of essential life skills. You'll foster creativity, sharpen critical thinking and analysis, embrace collaboration, and master the art of effective communication.
Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall
Located 10 miles from Boston, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall (CH-CH) is a private, college preparatory day and boarding school for grades 8-12/PG. CH-CH cultivates intellectual courage, creative ambition, and unwavering empathy that drives students to achieve their best.
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