At JEB Stuart High School, all 9th and 10th grade students participate in the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), which provides a framwork of academic challenges that encourages students to embrace and understand the connections between traditional subjects and the real world as well as to become critical and reflective thinkers.

The program:

• Encourages international-mindedness
• Encourages a positive attitude to learning by callenging students to solve problems, show creativity and resourcefulness, and participate actively in their communities
• Reflects real life by providing a framework that allows students to use the connections among the subjects themselves, and between the subjects and real issues
• Supports the development of communication skills to encourage inquiry, understanding, language acquisition, and to allow student reflection and expression
• Epmhasizes, through the learner profile, the development of the whole student - physically, intellectually, emotionally, and ethically