Through experienced master teachers and students from Phillips Academy and Andover High, PALS offers academic enrichment, study skills, career exploration and guidance in high school choices to selected 7th and 8th graders from the Leonard School in the neighboring city of Lawrence. Curriculum development projects, The Global Economics Curriculum Project , Islamic Cultural Studies Project and the African Studies Project. The Summer Session combines a full boarding, pre-college experience with small classes in a multicultural community.
Innovative pedagogy enhances traditional academic areas.
Students are accepted from around the world and local communities. A collaboration between the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College and Phillips Academy, Andover Bread Loaf offers separate summer workshops in writing for public school teachers and students on the Phillips Academy campus. Year-round work with teacher participants supports initiatives in their home schools. The mission of the IRT is to deepen the pool of talented minorities entering the teaching profession. Each year the program's faculty and staff recruit at least 75 outstanding African American, Latino and Native American college students from across America and provide them with financial, academic and individual support to attain advanced degrees in preparation for teaching careers.