Our Mission

The Hawthorne Seminar Foundation supports the students, teachers, and families of the Hawthorne Seminar program. We provide the teachers with resources to help them create a cognitively challenging classroom environment that provides opportunities for engagement and creativity, recognizes individual differences, and encourages personal and intellectual growth. We fund educational field trips and high-quality enrichment programs that contribute to the intellectual, emotional, and social development of the children. The foundation encourages and facilitates active parental engagement, advocacy for gifted children, and fosters a sense of community, in the aims of supporting an educational environment where seminar students and their families thrive.