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Nesbitt School highlights IB validation, solutionary projects and student-led environmental work
Summary
Nesbitt School staff, students and administrators briefed the Belmont-Redwood Shores Board on the school’s near-complete International Baccalaureate middle‑years validation, a district-funded solutionary teaching initiative and grade-level projects that engaged students in community-focused environmental work.
Nesbitt School Principal Ryan Hansen told the Board of Trustees that Nesbitt — a kindergarten-through-eighth campus — enrolls just under 600 students and is implementing the Belmont‑Redwood Shores strategic plan through an International Baccalaureate (IB) middle‑years program and a district-backed “solutionary” teaching and learning framework.
The presentation explained how the IB program and a new solutionary curriculum are intended to combine academic standards with student-driven projects. “Nesbitt is a very diverse school with just under 600 students,” said Ryan Hansen, principal of Nesbitt School. Hansen and staff credited the school’s IB work with creating new curricular expectations (for example, 50 hours of art and design, and three years of Spanish language acquisition for middle-school students) and with prompting teachers…
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