New Pennington Immersive Education Gateway Term is Time of Discovery

November 11, 2026November 10, 2026 Wendy Greenberg New Pennington Immersive Education Gateway Term is Time of Discovery GATEWAY SPEAKER: Jake Bongiovi, right, a Pennington School Class of 2020 graduate, was the first Gateway speaker at a Chapel meeting on October 26. Bongiovi, shown with Pennington School Chaplain the Rev. David Hallgren, reflected on the life skills he gained at the school. (Photo courtesy of The Pennington School) By Wendy Greenberg Several years ago, the leadership team at The Pennington School thought about what characteristics a student should cultivate by the time they graduated. Their “portrait of a graduate” included such traits as perseverance, critical thinking, ethics, a global perspective, service, and more. But an immersive education that would provide a deeper dive into a student’s personal passions, and would yield something to show for it, would complete the picture, they concluded.

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