About Ingenuity Year

Ingenuity Year is an undertaking of Forman School. We aim to take learning out of the classroom and into the real world so that we might equip the next generation of students with the skills to engage in the most pressing issues of our time.

We believe all students learn differently, and that all students should embrace their own style of learning.

Our Programming

Our gap year programming is designed to help students learn who they are as learners and as humans. We offer curiosity-based, hands-on experiences which are intellectually stimulating. Ingenuity Year offers executive function coaching and a safe space for students to meet remotely with their own therapist. However, our programming is non-therapeutic and is not tailored for students who have difficulties with social pragmatics.

We engage with real challenges facing real communities so that we can prepare ourselves for the future and reconnect with our passions.

Forman School

Founded in 1930, the Forman School is a coed college prep school for students with learning differences. The original school board included Samuel Orton (who pioneered the study of dyslexia) and physicist Albert Einstein (who struggled with reading and was dyslexic). The school teaches adolescents with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and executive function deficits, while empowering students to understand how their brains function so that they can advocate for what they need.

In 1930, they were the first to do what they do. Today, nobody does it better.