Individual Attention
Each student is unique; thus, we have developed an individualized approach to learning. Our instructors are passionate about molding the young minds of the future. Our lesson plans are designed to engage students and allow them to excel in the home environment for grades 6-12. Although we take a personalized approach to learning, we support community-styled learning through virtual events that allow each individual impacted by our program to join the initiative to foster a brighter education.
ASSESSMENTS
Each student is evaluated prior to starting our online program in the areas of Science, Math, Social Studies, English, and Writing to determine strengths and areas in need of improvement.
Additional assessments are completed to establish student’s interest in performing arts to help create one-on-one interventions.
EXCEPTIONAL INSTRUCTORS
Our instructors make online learning a fun, safe, and supportive experience that allows students to explore their creativity. Many of our teachers can provide additional instructions/opportunities for review to ensure students understand subject material.
COMMUNITY
We are a collaborative community of educators, performing arts instructors, students, and parents. We provide opportunities for students to build relationships with peers throughout the County School System, as well as involving their families and the surroundings community.
Why Choose Online Schooling
Online schooling provides a safe and comfortable learning environment for students and their families. Due to the current pandemic (COVID-19) virtual learning has become the ideal platform to reach students across the world. This new form of learning is to protect our students, staff, and their families.
Personalized curriculum
One-on-one learning opportunities
Student-paced learning
Connection with peers across the country
Instructors from various backgrounds
Our program is great for students who may not thrive in a traditional learning environment.
Curriculum Overview
Our curriculum is based on the educational requirements of each city and state that we service. Our lessons are structured in two main categories, Academics and Arts, and then by grade level. Our academic courses include the core areas of Math, Science, Social Studies, and English. Our performing arts courses include Theatre, Dance, Music and Spoken Word.
Middle School English
This course integrates the five English/language arts processes (reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing) and the two contents (language and literature)
Grade 6: Students read, analyze, and study different genres related to each of the themes and complete required common tasks. The extended writing projects focus primarily on the writing process for three types of writing—argument, narrative, and informative/explanatory—and they include the use of information, word processing, and presentation technology to address a variety of language skills
Grade 7: Building on their experiences in English 6, students in English 7 examine language and literature in the context of the challenges people face. Students read, analyze, and study different genres related to each of the themes and complete required common tasks. Core texts include multicultural, contemporary, and classic titles.
Grade 8: Building on their experiences in English 7, students in English 8 gain greater rigor and challenge in the instructional approach to the study of English. English 8 prepares students—through activities integrated into each thematic unit—for county, state, and national assessments.
Middle School Math
Students will achieve mathematical proficiency through mastery of mathematical skills, concepts, and processes. The end result is the ability to think and reason mathematically and use mathematics to solve problems in authentic contexts.
Grade 6: Begins with a unit on reasoning about area and understanding and applying concepts of surface area. These materials incorporate opportunities to practice elementary arithmetic concepts and skills. From geometry, students move to studying ratios, unit rates, and percentages using various diagrams.
Grade 7: Students will draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, and volume. Extend use of the four basic arithmetic operations on whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals.
Grade 8: In Grade 8 Math, students encounter both scientific notation and irrational numbers for the first time. The year concludes with the study and application of the Pythagorean Theorem and a study of volume.
Middle School Science
At each grade level, topics in Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Engineering are interconnected to show students the relationships that exist between the sciences and the natural world.
Grade 6: Students apply their understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to propose solutions to problems. Topics covered in this grade level include:
o Matter and its interactions
o Ecosystems, energy, and dynamics
o Earth's resources and human impacts on the environment
o Energy and waves
Grade 7: Students apply their understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to propose solutions to problems. Topics covered in this grade level include:
o Cellular structures and processes
o Matter and energy flow in organisms
o Inheritance and variation of traits
o Earth's history and biological evolution
Grade 8: Students apply their understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to propose solutions to problems. Topics covered in this grade level include:
o Weather and climate
o Earth's materials and systems
o Forces, motion and interactions
o Earth, the solar system and the universe
Middle School Social Studies
Middle school builds chronological and thematic understanding of world and United States history, while also developing the social studies strands of geography, economics, political systems, and culture.
Grade 6/7: The focus of study is on ancient world history and culture from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
Grade 8: The focus of study is to learn about the founding and early development of our nation, from the Revolution through Reconstruction.
Middle School Health
Grade 6: Areas of focus include mental and emotional health; alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; personal and consumer health; and safety and injury prevention.
Grade 7: Areas of focus include mental and emotional health; alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; personal and consumer health; family life and human sexuality; and disease prevention and control.
Grade 8: Areas of focus include alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; personal and consumer health; family life and human sexuality; safety and injury prevention; and nutrition and fitness.
High School English
Grade 9: In English 9, students will approach literature as apprentice writers, they examine models such as short stories, essays, and novels to explore the choices writers make and the effects arising from those choices. They learn to emulate those effects in their own work and practice reflection, revision, and rewriting
Grade 10: This course includes four units: Stories of the Individual-Memoir and Coming-of-Age Stories; Stories in the Oral Tradition-Drama and Epic Poetry; Stories in the World-Historical and Political Literature; and Stories of Other Worlds-Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Imaginative Literature. Grade 11: This course emphasizes the search to make meaning, and the subject of that inquiry is the multitude of different ways that individuals experience life in this country. Units are based on broad themes and open-ended questions, engaging students with complex texts, ideas, and writing assignments.
Grade 12: In preparation for college and careers, students continue to develop skills for using language to understand a world that is changing rapidly in terms of how information is produced and shared.
High School Math
Algebra 1: Students in Algebra 1 continue their study of patterns and relationships, formalizing their knowledge, learning to use symbolic notation and connecting their understandings to the real world.
Geometry: Instruction at this level will focus on the understanding and application of congruence as a basis for developing formal proofs; the relationships among similarity, trigonometry and triangles; the relationships between two- and three-dimensional objects and their measurements; exploration of geometric descriptions and equations for conic sections; and application of geometric concepts in modeling situations.
Algebra 2: In Algebra 2, students build on their Algebra 1 knowledge of linear, quadratic, and exponential functions and extend their repertoire to include polynomial, rational, radical, exponential, and logarithmic functions.
Pre-Calculus: Precalculus completes the formal study of the elementary functions begun in Algebra 1 and Algebra 2. Students focus on the use of technology, modeling, and problem solving.
High School Social Studies
Grade 9: Students learn key concepts and events through reading, writing, document analysis, and historical thinking. In the first semester, students learn the effects of migration, immigration, and industrialization; the impact of United States involvement in world affairs through World War I; and major developments of the 1920s and 1930s. In the second semester, students learn the impact of World War II; the origins and effects of the Cold War; cultural changes in post-war America including the expansion of civil rights; and foreign and domestic policies between 1968 and 1991.
Grade 10: Students will utilize inquiry and literacy skills to develop a deep understanding of the foundation and structures of the U.S. government, evaluate the importance of citizen participation, and analyze the impact of principles, laws, people, and organizations on domestic, foreign, and economic policies that affect our daily lives.
Grade 11/12: Students will build an understanding of the complexity of our global relationships. Concept-based instruction, a comparative case study approach, and historical thinking skills are used to frame world history from the 15th century to today.
High School Science
Biology: Students will use observations, experiments, hypotheses, tests, models, theory, and technology to explore how life works. Core ideas include structures and processes in organisms, ecology, heredity, and evolution.
Chemistry: Topics of study will include structures and properties of matter, weather and climate, chemical reactions, conservation of mass/energy, and relationships between Earth and human activity.
Physics: Topics include traditional physics subjects (Newtonian mechanics: dynamics, momentum, energy; electricity and magnetism; waves) along with related subjects in earth science (plate tectonics; earthquake activity) and astronomy (solar evolution).
Performing Arts
Fine arts are important to every child’s development and play a vital role in providing students with a well-rounded, world class education. Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Art promote academic excellence, creative problem-solving, and social emotional learning, which are essential components of college and career readiness.
Dance
Ballet. Students will explore an artistic dance form performed to music using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. Classical ballet, which originated in Renaissance Italy and established its present form during the 19th century, is characterized by light, graceful, fluid movements and the use of pointe shoes.
Contemporary. Students will explore an artistic dance form that focus on technique, contemporary dance tends to combine the strong but controlled legwork of ballet with modern that stresses on torso. It also employs contract-release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation characteristics of modern dance.
Modern. Students will explore an artistic dance form that focuses on free, expressive style of dancing. In recent years, it has included elements not usually associated with dance, such as speech and film.
Jazz. Students will explore an artistic dance form that focuses on rhythms and techniques of jazz music, developed by African Americans in the early part of the 20th century.
HipHop. Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping.
Step. Students will explore an artistic dance form that focuses on aligning the body with rhythms and sounds. In stepping, the body becomes an instrument, using footsteps, claps and spoken word to produce complex poly-rhythms.
Theatre
Students will explore how the theater is a space that both creates and challenges community. Students will study a variety of dramatic works, participate in the creation and enhancement of ensemble, and question the role of theatre within their community.