The Value of Community
NEIA’s campus experience emphasizes what community means in terms of responsibility to oneself and others. Our goal is to cultivate a community that understands the expectations their fellow community members have for them—not just living for themselves, but for others as well.
This also provides students with a sense of ownership and belonging. We empower students to identify their unique strengths, bring them to the community, and gain confidence as they see their contributions create impact.
At NEIA, students aren’t simply participating in classes, activities, or extracurriculars. They are responsible for their place within those communities. NEIA is about understanding your impact, seeing how you fit inside the ecosystem and discovering how you can effect change.
When you feel known, needed, and loved then you in turn can do something that makes a difference and that is where purpose is really activated.
After-school activities at NEIA allow students to pursue their passions outside of education while having fun and socializing with their peers. Our after-school activities are comprised of two different categories, athletics and explorations. Our athletics program features various competitive teams for students to participate in throughout the year. On the other hand, our explorations are instructional, non-competitive endeavors that focus on sports and arts to encourage teamwork, individual passion exploration, and focus on physical health.
We believe that individual and team activity develops and deepens students’ capacity to engage positively with themselves and the world around them. Teamwork, found in both our athletics and explorations, is central to healthy adolescent development. At NEIA, our mission is to curate team experiences on athletic fields, in robotics labs, on arts stages, in language clubs, or among nature, which is why we offer both competitive and non-competitive environments for students to choose from at their leisure. School pride, friendships, winning or losing with grace, and leadership skills are intentionally taught, cultivated, and assessed. When NEIA innovators experience individual passion, they take risks that build resilience and grit; they push themselves to the edge of what they previously thought possible and enter into a state of flow.
Athletics
Girls Volleyball
Cross Country
Esports
Wrestling
Basketball
Esports
Tennis
Track and Field
Esports
Explorations
Soccer
Mountain Biking
Pickleball
Fitness
Robotics
Theater (Auditions and Rehearsals)
Fitness
Robotics
Theater (Performances)
Art Production
Mountain Biking
Golf
Robotics
Clubs
Here at NEIA, we want students to follow their passions outside of the classroom. Clubs at NEIA can be student-led or staff-led, and many are formed from student ideas. Each semester new clubs can be created and old ones can be taken away; it is completely based on our students and the passions they are looking to pursue. The following is what is currently being offered for clubs here at NEIA:
Student-led:
- Adventure
- Garage Band
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Investments
Staff-led:
- Amusements
- Community Impact
- Debate
- Design
- Digital Storying Telling
- Entrepreneurship
- Fiber Arts
- Culinary
Advocacy
At NEIA, each student is connected to a caring and compassionate adult, an Advocate. The Advocate is responsible for and commits to each of their students thriving throughout their time at NEIA, helping them find their passions and moving their ideas to impact their future.
The Advocate has a unique and central place in the NEIA life of students. They are the first point of contact for parents and the first person that their student should go to for help. Advocates serve as conduits to connect students to learning resources, counseling support, and academic needs. They also help their Advocate navigate behavioral challenges by supporting them when they encounter discipline concerns.
Each Advocate engages with their students individually and in groups to help students make decisions about course selection, academic concerns, and general mentorship.
Residential Life
Learn More About Residential LifeLiving at NEIA is an extension of the student experience, providing a second home, and deepening the students’ sense of belonging to the school community. The experience guides students on their path to becoming more active members of the wider community who are personally and socially responsible, academically prepared, and seek cultural competence and global-mindedness.
Rooms and residential gathering areas are meant to be warm, welcoming, and restorative. The connectedness of the campus environment ensures that living spaces are an extension of the school.
The living experience at NEIA is designed to ensure students develop character and become the young adults we know them to be. Through their experiences at NEIA, students become compassionate, independent, just, responsible, tenacious, collaborative, kind, and personally responsible citizens.