SAAS Core Values
The belief that you will be an honorable person until you prove otherwise
What is Trust?
The number of elective blocks each student has a trimester
What is three?
These are the three C's of an effective thesis.
What are Clear, Concise, and Comprehensive?
This thinker is a real gem - writing about how agriculture created winners, losers, and a whole lot of trouble for humanity.
Who is Jared Diamond?
Of the six main buildings SAAS currently uses to host classes, we have used this one for the longest.
What is The Vanderbilt?
This value is demonstrated by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
What is Integrity?
In order to participate in senior projects, as student must first acquire 120 of these
What are community action (community service) hours?
The author of Persepolis
Who is Marjane Satrapi?
Perhaps this ancient guy was literally chilling out in the Alps, enjoying some medicinal birch fungus and carving a longbow before starring in a murder mystery - complete with an arrow in the back.
Who is Ötzi?
SAAS open its doors in this year
When is 1983?
Choosing to take ownership over one’s own actions is a demonstration of this value.
What is Responsibility?
The number of credits a needed to graduate.
What is 84?
This former world cup host country is the location where "Born a Crime" takes place.
What is South Africa
Ancient trash pandas would’ve loved stumbling onto one of these sites - layers of old human garbage perfect for rummaging through. Bring gloves though if you’re planning to take a dive.
What are middens?
The number of students in SAAS’s first graduating class (plus or minus 3)
What is Fourteen?
When your peers are paying attention in class and participating in discussion, they are demonstrating this value.
What is Respect?
Design Thinking, Computational Thinking, and Financial Literacy are all examples of this synonym for "bedrock"
What are (Innovation) foundations?
E.A.T stands for this when drafting an essay
What is Evidence, Analysis, Thesis
This Bronze Age powerhouse was the Mediterranean’s manufacturing hub, pumping out goods long before Amazon Prime - with international travel and trade right at its doorstep.
What is Mycenae?
In our mission statement, we challenge students to do three things.
What are Question, Imagine, Create?
If you have the opportunity to cheat on a difficult final and you know you’d get away with it, yet you choose not to.
What is Integrity?
Many students get their PE credits by playing sports after school. For students who want to get PE credits during the school day, what are their three course options?
What are (PE) Yoga, (PE) Strength & Conditioning, and Dance
"The wind whispered through the tall trees, is an example of this literary device
What is personification
Deep in the Amazon lives this egalitarian group with no hierarchy, no numbers, and only 15-20 hours of weekly work - a lifestyle some students might envy.
Who are the Pirahã?
This "brawny" dean of Arts is the longest tenured SAAS faculty member
Who is Fred Strong
But, Linda Spangler is the longest tenured SAAS employee!