DeGrio Global Learning Academy (DGLA) is a whole-child learning community preparing students to thrive in a changing world. Our approach brings together academic learning, developmental wellness, creativity, technology, and real-world application in a safe, supportive, and student-led environment.

Through the integrated development of Body, Mind, and Spirit, DGLA helps each learner build confidence, discover purpose, develop agency, and contribute positively to their community.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide a safe, supportive, student-led learning environment that nurtures the whole child through Body, Mind, and Spirit.

• Safety and belonging: Supportive relationships, consistent routines, and a positive school culture.
• Academic growth: Rigorous, standards-aligned learning and interdisciplinary inquiry.
• Confidence and self-regulation: Daily practices that support readiness to learn.
• Creativity and innovation: Storytelling, media, technology, design, and hands-on application.
• Purpose and character: Reflection, collaboration, responsibility, and meaningful contribution.

Our Vision

We prepare confident, capable, and compassionate learners who develop agency and contribute positively to their communities.

The Whole Learner

At DGLA, every child is seen and educated through three essential dimensions:

• Body: Physical health, movement, safety, developmental readiness, and regulation—the foundation for learning.
• Mind: Academic rigor, critical thinking, intellectual growth, and mastery that cultivate deep thinkers and curious problem-solvers.
• Spirit: Purpose, meaning, character development, and social-emotional growth that nurture each learner’s inner life.

Our Integrated Learning Approach

The DeGrio Integrated Learning Framework (DILF) is a 3×3 synthesis model that unites academic rigor, developmental wellness, and innovative practice through nine integrated zones of learning.

Academic 3: SEP • CCC • DCI

Science and Engineering Practices, Cross-Cutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas support rigorous STEM-based thinking and interdisciplinary learning.

Wellness 3: Mind • Body • Soul

Cognitive growth, physical and creative expression, and ethical, emotional, and spiritual formation support whole-child development.

Pedagogical 3: Montessori • Reggio • Whole Child

Independence and self-direction, collaboration and inquiry, and comprehensive human development guide the learning experience, with SRG-C™ at the center of social-emotional learning.

How We Learn

1. Academic Learning Pathways: Standards-aligned literacy, numeracy, science, and social studies.
2. Presence, Safety & Regulation: Practices that build safety, belonging, confidence, self-regulation, and readiness to learn.
3. Innovation & Digital Creative Lab Studio: Storytelling, media production, podcasting, music, video, design, and digital literacy.
4. Inquiry, Making & Mastery: Problem-solving, collaboration, real-world application, and executive-skill development.

Learning Across Every Stage

• Early Learning (Ages 2–5): Curiosity and security
• Lower Elementary (K–2): Skill and fluency
• Upper Elementary (3–5): Application and mastery
• Middle Years (6–8): Reasoning and identity
• High School (9–12): Leadership and purpose

Learning in Community

DGLA is an integrated ecosystem where academic learning, wellness, creativity, technology, and applied learning work together. Educators, media professionals, families, volunteers, and partners contribute to student growth through instruction, tutoring, early learning, learning support, digital learning, creative media, family programs, events, partnerships, and outreach.

Creative Learning for a Changing World

The Creative Lab Media Studio is a core instructional environment—not an elective—where students develop communication, creativity, collaboration, and digital fluency through podcasting, digital storytelling, music production, video and animation, public speaking, and design challenges.

Through this whole-child, integrated approach, DGLA prepares learners to lead with confidence, purpose, compassion, and agency.