Mission
Empowering me with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to use my voice effectively and with integrity in co-creating our common public world.
Administrators
Christopher O’Reilly, Executive Director
Essential Facts
- Open August, 2002 – June, 2010 in the Monadnock Regional School District as a public school program of choice, under the Monadnock Regional High School, accredited by NEASC, with students from 15 different towns
- Reopened August, 2012 in Manchester, NH as a public charter school and in August, 2015 in Keene, NH
- Recipient of New Hampshire Excellence in Education Special Recognition Award, 2009
Accreditation
Authorized by the New Hampshire State Board of Education
Evaluation System
• No Grades or Grade Point Average
• No Class Rank
• Performance-based
• Half hour Exhibitions, quarterly, presenting learning progress and accomplishments, by each student to their learning team
• Hour-long Gateway Exhibitions, presenting learning progress and defending readiness for advancement to next level (Phase)
• Narrative teacher evaluations, including assessments of Habits, quarterly with annual compilation
• Credit given based on learning demonstrated through writing, projects, portfolios, and presentations
Faculty
All staff serve in a teaching relationship with students, including the administrative assistant, tutors, and IT staff. MC2 is a learning community in which each individual contributes to another’s learning regardless of position, degree or age.
Instruction is provided by:
- Four Teachers/Advisors, MC2 Monadnock
- Contracted services, including second language consultants and visiting consultants for extended projects (examples include: stained glass geometry; museum exhibits; city murals)
Schedule
Annual: Year-round with four quarters: each comprised of 10 weeks on, 3 weeks off.
Weekly: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are academic days; Tuesdays and Thursdays are Internship days
Community
- Located in Keene, NH (CEEB Code: 300297)
- Enrollment is open, with students from multiple districts/towns
- Intentionally small (each campus has a capacity of 120 students)
Student Body
Students are admitted between the ages of 13 and 18. The admissions process requires visits, essays, and an interview. All students are individuals who are committed to purposefully furthering their learning and to take responsibility for their growth, education, and future. The student body is representative of the enrollment populations of the area high schools.
Graduates’ Post-Secondary Choices
Our first two full program graduates graduated in June, 2006. They each received several scholarships, and successfully graduated in four years from Westfield State College in Massachusetts and Cedarcrest College in Pennsylvania. Since then graduates have attended and graduated from institutions as diverse as Full Sail University, Husson College, Keene State College, Houghton College, Marlborough College, Yale University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Maine College of Art, and Boston Conservatory at Berkeley.
“I just want to say that no school has ever gotten me to want to learn the way that MC2 has.”
– MC2 Student
