NextTerm

THE EXPERIENCE

Action — that’s what all of history’s great thinkers, artists, achievers, and innovators have in common. They took action, stepping (sometimes literally) into the unknown.

About NextTerm

NextTerm is a three-week, project-based, immersive semester that gives students the freedom to pursue their passions, curiosities, and interests. All students in grades nine through eleven choose from a menu of more than twenty courses, including many with a travel component.

During NextTerm, students aren't just working toward a grade (although courses are graded); students work to solve real-world problems and advance the way our society thinks about and approaches the issues of our time. Students are afforded the time and the resources to follow the information and their budding interest wherever it takes them. The result is empowering, invigorating, and transformative.

Different than traditional travel programs that focus primarily on culture, NextTerm courses explore a specific topic or issue, in the environment most relevant to that topic.

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3 WEEKS

Spent in a NextTerm Course Each Year

8 STATES,
3 COUNTRIES

Our Classes will Travel to
in 2026

20 Courses

From Which Tenth and Eleventh Graders Can Choose

The opportunities students have through NextTerm are ones that don’t exist anywhere else. The program provides experiences that are meaningful and foundational for who they are, who they become, and how they see the world.OTIS DOUCE, DIRECTOR OF EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND GLOBAL DIVERSITY

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One Course, Three Weeks, Anywhere Your Mind Can Go

THE EXPERIENCE

Action — that’s what all of history’s great thinkers, artists, achievers, and innovators have in common. They took action, stepping (sometimes literally) into the unknown.

About NextTerm

The Courses

Essential Question: How does the pursuit of gender equity produce outcomes that shape the quality of life in Scandinavia and beyond?

Essential Question: How can we play an active role in securing the health of our ecosystem and protecting our wildlife? What aspects of Costa Rica’s conservation programs can be applied or adapted here in New Jersey?

Essential Question: How did Henry David Thoreau and the transcendental movement transform America, our understanding of the natural world, and our place in it? And how can we train our minds to make intentional contact with the world around us?

Essential Question: How and why are National Parks essential to the American experience and what role do we play in their stewardship and legacy?

The Facts

3 WEEKS

8 STATES,
3 COUNTRIES

20 Courses

Our Programming

NeXpo Showcase

Behind the Credits

When the Torch Goes Out (Spain)

Redesigning Fashion

Into the Open Spaces

Contact & Resources

NextTerm

THE EXPERIENCE

Action — that’s what all of history’s great thinkers, artists, achievers, and innovators have in common. They took action, stepping (sometimes literally) into the unknown.

Essential Question: How does the pursuit of gender equity produce outcomes that shape the quality of life in Scandinavia and beyond?

Essential Question: How can we play an active role in securing the health of our ecosystem and protecting our wildlife? What aspects of Costa Rica’s conservation programs can be applied or adapted here in New Jersey?

Essential Question: How did Henry David Thoreau and the transcendental movement transform America, our understanding of the natural world, and our place in it? And how can we train our minds to make intentional contact with the world around us?

Essential Question: How and why are National Parks essential to the American experience and what role do we play in their stewardship and legacy?

3 WEEKS

8 STATES, 3 COUNTRIES

20 Courses

8 STATES,
3 COUNTRIES