One School's Application of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences: When One Flower Blooms

Summary

The Woodrow Wilson School in Weehawken, New Jersey, is an arts-integrated school that promotes a curriculum that integrates Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Woodrow Wilson serves approximately 400 students enrolled in first through eight grade and is staffed by 35 teachers, two office personnel, and two administrators. This article explores the philosophical perspectives of the school's educators and the educational opportunities that are made available to the students. The Woodrow Wilson School presents a model program that begins to answer the question of how the Theory of Multiple Intelligences can manifest amid the constellation of variables encountered in a classroom, an entire school, and the community that it serves.