Watch: Our Admissions Info Session with Head of School Carl Sabatino

We recorded our January admissions info session and are sharing it here for families who couldn't attend — or who want to revisit what was covered.

Head of School Carl Sabatino walks through our educational philosophy, curriculum, and what a typical day at Tradewinds looks like.

Use the timestamps below to jump to specific sections:

Part 1 — Why Gifted Education (5:43)

Traditional vs. gifted schooling (5:46)
Asynchronous development (7:55)
Higher-order thinking and Bloom's Taxonomy (11:35)
A day at Tradewinds (14:16)
Teachers who get it (16:36)
Pacing, depth, and complexity (18:16)
Differentiation: many paths to learning (22:52)
Learning environment (24:52)

Part 2 — Social-Emotional Needs (27:38)

Part 3 — The Tradewinds Inquiry Process (36:00)

The 8-step inquiry process (36:02)
Big Idea: Waves & Energy — science (37:06)
Big Idea: Area — math building toward calculus (39:45)
Big Idea: Family through The Wild Robot — humanities (42:53)
Aquifer Contamination — transdisciplinary (44:25)
Tools: Writing as Thinking & AI (46:20)

Admissions Process (52:08)

Our next in-person info session is Tuesday, March 10 at 5:30 PM — we'll go deeper into all of this and more.