Making changemakers.
The Social Innovation Program (SIP) is a four-year curriculum that hones the changemaking attitudes and aptitudes of every Sequoyah School student, 9th-12th grade.
Through talking with people and visiting places, students develop a firm understanding of their relationship to complex injustices facing our local and global communities.
Graduates are seasoned ethnographic researchers, imaginative creators, and thoughtful collaborators who fluently wield and yield power.
4-year skill-building sequence
Local Issues
9th and 10th graders work in small teams around a globally relevant and locally urgent issue. These are foundational years in skill-building and realizing what is possible.
Impact Projects
11th graders work individually or in small groups around an issue of personal significance. This year is about gathering perspectives and thinking divergently.
Advanced Impact Projects
12th graders hit the ground running using research and relationships from previous years to carry out a changemaking initiative of their imagining.
InternSIPs
Older students can embed themselves in one mission-driven organization over the course of the whole year. Students conduct informational interviews with colleagues and practice taking fieldnotes regularly.
Friends of SIP
Thank you to the more than 300+ organizations and people who have generously taken the time to meet with and host our students. Below are a handful of the non-profits, government agencies, businesses, and colleges that have engaged with us.
