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Hance Lower School Learning Center

New home for the media center, Extended Day, and Educational Resources. Opened in August 2018.
 

The Hance Lower School Learning Center is the first step in creating separate, age-appropriate libraries/learning centers for younger and older students. The Hance Learning Center is also home to the Brock Center for Extended Day and the Lower School Educational Resource Program, a hub for dedicated technology instruction. Nestled within the Lower School classrooms, the facility—which opened in August 2018—gives our youngest students a space designed just for them.

Hance Lower School Learning Center

Highlights include:

  • Library and Media Center: An open and airy media center that combines an extensive collection of books, along with resources designed for modern information literacy.
    • Storytelling and instruction rooms
    • Reading Nooks
  • Hands-On Innovation Area: Engages students in age-appropriate problem-solving, collaboration, and design thinking. 
    • Design and Innovation Lab
    • Makerspace
  • The Brock Center: This new inviting space features four dedicated classrooms for Extended Day and serves as the hub for After School enrichment.
    • Culinary Corner stocked with nutritious after-school snacks and ready for cooking classes
    • Centralized pickups and dropoffs
    • Encourages exploration and fosters development

In the Makerspace, students take ownership of their learning in a very genuine way to design and build solutions to real-world problems. This type of learning promotes lifelong problem-solving skills that are hard to achieve through a traditional classroom curriculum.

TIM MOXLEY, LOWER SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIST

Generous $2 million Gift from Jim and Bev Hance

Jim and Bev Hance generously pledged $2 million to create new opportunities for our next generation of leaders, thinkers, and doers in a distinctive learning environment.

The Hances, who are parents to four alumnae and grandparents to six Country Day students, have made Country Day a philanthropic priority alongside other key educational institutions. Their generosity and steadfast commitment illustrate the value parents of alumni and grandparents place on a Country Day education.

Generous $1 million Gift from the Brock Family

John III and Mary Brock and John IV and Tracy Brock made a generous $1 million commitment to name the Brock Center for Extended Day. They recognize the needs of Country Day's families are shifting, and quality time before and after school is a vital part of many children's Country Day experience. Whether a child attends regularly or on a drop-in basis, our community provides a nurturing and enriching environment for students and flexible scheduling for parents.