Chugiak World Discovery Seminar Program

Here is a copy of our 2023 recruitment brochure!

The Quarter 3 Cross Seminar was held on February 14th, 2023. We continued our discussion on ethics and morality with a focus on ethics of Love, which included coaching a “Relationship Bill of Rights,” and “Courtly Love,” which is a letter of advice from a knight to his mentee in the medieval era. After the…

The WDS Community joined together with their families on February 15th to learn more about our Paideia Seminar Style. The community started with a soup + bread dinner in 207/208 with discussion and connection. After dinner, kids went to a childcare room provided by volunteers Natasha Wanna and Carolyn Burrill, and teens went to the…

Day of Caring is another annual tradition for WDS in which students take a day away from classes to serve the school and local community. Students choose from a dossier of options based on their own interests. WDS teachers typically generate the list, so if any community members know of projects that can be complete…

The WDS Graduation is a favorite tradition among WDS students. This is an event that begins well before the actual day of the ceremony, when members of the Sophomore cohort interview their assigned senior to learn more about their passions and and interests and then craft them a custom paper hat that matches their personalities.…

The WDS Philosophy Seminar Series is a quarterly cross-seminar that takes all WDS students from their normal classes and shuffles the grades into groups for a mixed-age seminar. This year’s philosophy theme is Ethics + Morality. We started our fall field day with our Quarter One cross seminar, which centered around a general text defining…

In November, the WDS Community planned and implemented the return of our “Feast or Famine” tradition, which is a potluck-style event that raises awareness and funds to combat local and global food insecurity. This year, we had more than 150 people participate and raised over $700 and several hundred pounds of food for the CHS…

WDS Students attended the 2022 Field Day on September 2nd, 2022. Here’s an overview of how they spent their day: 7:00 Set up in student union7:30 Breakfast lines begin. Eat with your group!7:40 Speeches for WDS council7:55 Vote with colored ballots8:00 Transition to seminar rooms and start seminar!Seminar Topic: Ethics + Morality8:55 Clean up seminar…

The WDS Teaching team is a diverse group of educators from many perspectives and walks of life. All of them split their schedule at Chugiak with WDS classes and traditional classes. Their schedules change year to year, but for the most part you can expect to have each teacher for at least one full year…