Burgundy Farm Country Day School
Coordinates: 38°47′55.9″N 77°5′45.8″W / 38.798861°N 77.096056°W Burgundy Farm Country Day School is a progressive independent school on a 25-acre (100,000 m2) campus in the Alexandria neighborhood of Fairfax County, Virginia, and 500 acres (2.0 km2) in West Virginia. It serves nearly 300 students in grades Junior Kindergarten through Eighth Grade. The school's primary campus is located on a former dairy farm just outside the Washington, DC/Northern Virginia beltway.
The school was founded in 1946 by a group of concerned parents, which included some Quakers and also included noted CBS broadcast journalist Eric Sevareid and his wife Lois. In 1950, Burgundy became the first school in the Commonwealth of Virginia to racially integrate.
In the spirit of its parent-cooperative roots, Burgundy provides an innovative, collaborative, diverse, and hands-on learning environment in which teachers, students, and parents engage together as partners. Burgundy's nurturing creative school culture cultivates a love of learning and teaches students how to learn. The school instills respect for diversity and teaches responsibility for self, for other people, and for the natural world.
Burgundy's philosophy of education honors the individual student by honoring the whole child – social, emotional, and physical aspects, as well as the academic. Burgundy's approach to learning rarely relies exclusively on the traditional textbook; instead learning is an active, student-centered, and usually cooperative enterprise. The Burgundy teachers aim to facilitate learning using an integrated curriculum that emphasizes the relationship of ideas and encourages students to construct their own understanding and solutions to real-life questions.
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