The Nueva School 1 Case Study The Nueva School San Mateo, California, US Before designing a new high school, The Nueva School did exactly what they encourage their students to do—ask a lot of questions. The teachers at The Nueva School in San Mateo, California, don’t only care if students in their classes arrive at the right answer. It’s equally important that students ask the right questions. Nueva teaches students to do this by instilling a sense of empathy. “Having empathy for other truths is an important way of coming up with questions that are different from the ones that immediately come to mind. It’s one way of teaching the capacity to question and learn,” says Terry Lee, associate head of school. At Nueva, learning is open-ended. It doesn’t happen in neatly segmen

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