Castilleja School: Micro and Macro

In addition to school sponsored talks from local stockbrokers, securities analysts, financial planners, Castilleja offers an Economics curriculum that contains units on micro and macroeconomics, international and global economics as well a...

Castilleja School: Micro and Macro

In addition to school sponsored talks from local stockbrokers, securities analysts, financial planners, Castilleja offers an Economics curriculum that contains units on micro and macroeconomics, international and global economics as well as a quarter long project on writing a business plan and a paper on securities and investing.

Castilleja Curriculum for Community and Global Engagement

Castilleja's Head of School, Joan Lonergan, sees community and global engagement as one of three essential principles that guide the School's program "to educate girls to do well and to do good both in school and as they go out into the ...

Castilleja Curriculum for Community and Global Engagement

Castilleja's Head of School, Joan Lonergan, sees community and global engagement as one of three essential principles that guide the School's program "to educate girls to do well and to do good both in school and as they go out into the world."

Castilleja students are not just listening to Jane Goodall, they are supporting her work in Gombi, providing clothes to children in Afghanistan, sending books to girls' schools in the Sudan, raising tens of thousands of dollars for Save the Children and other global relief organizations, advocating for women's and children's rights, acting on what they are learning in language and history classes, using technology to create web sites and connections around the world, creating assembly programs on cultural diversity, and traveling to third world countries as volunteer workers, not tourists.
 
Two Castilleja students have just returned from Ethiopia and Uganda as delegates to a delegation sponsored by Save the Children. The School, in a student organized "Dancing for a Difference" raised $17,000 to help build a school in the Ethiopian village of Woliso and additional funds to build a well so that village girls could spend less time carrying water and have time to attend school.