Beyond Homeschool

THE ADVANTAGES OF HOMESCHOOLING WITHOUT THE PARENT AS PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR…

Our Beyond Homeschool program takes advantage of all the benefits of homeschooling without the "parent-schooling" part. We understand you want control over goals and curricular content choices, to be able to take advantage of concurrent college credit opportunities, and to allow more creativity and flexibility for your student to seek time for outside passions. Our program methodology creates a completely personalized experience for each student. Our Academic Coaches are master teachers with backgrounds in various areas, all of them with extensive experience working with diverse learners. Weekly work is personalized in both its content and instruction method for each learner's strengths, interests, and learning style profile. Based on our initial diagnostic work, we tailor a program that is as unique as your student and provides a structured, organized way for them to complete work, engage in deep conversation on topics that matter to them and grow critical thinking. Students are supported to move at a pace that best fits them to graduation. Imagine time spent one on one in the areas in which your student needs more in-depth exposure and challenge and yet adjustable in providing paths that lead to demonstrated mastery. Our program frees up time for areas of focus so other areas can be further explored. We offer our Beyond Homeschool students opportunities throughout the year to participate in seasonal crafting days, events, and our end-of-year field day.

Getting started involves three steps, and if found eligible, families can take advantage of rolling admission. First, an initial consultation is scheduled. This is a two-part meeting with no obligation. It is required to build a learning profile for your student and helps us understand who they are as a learner. It paves a path to identifying how our program can meet their needs. If found eligible for the program and openings exist, your family can move to step two. Step two involves a set-up meeting where we all meet to lay out the logistics of homeschooling: the filing of your family intent to homeschool, the creation of the academic calendar, semester academic goals and the curriculum paths. Next, we schedule standing appointment times for your student to meet consistently on a weekly basis with his or her matched coach. A jump start meeting is scheduled before regular meetings begin to ensure your son or daughter will be able to confidently meet expectations in how to meet up, engage, and how to access work/materials. Typical costs include fees for the homeschool and parent setup as well as for a jump-start meeting for the student. Additionally, there will be some costs for the materials that are chosen by families for instruction (workbook, textbook, kit). Our recommendations are always to utilize used materials for content resources and our company has multiple content subscriptions for print and digital means which are provided at no cost to our families. We encourage the purchase of a writing tablet for remote sessions, typically around $45.00 All materials are purchased for families turn-key and billed for reimbursement. There is no lost time for families in the procurement and organization of materials. The final cost for the program is the program annual tuition (call for rate). A typical year is based on an academic calendar that runs from late August to end of May, typically 32 weeks. The program is cost-effective, engages your learner one one-on-one, and takes care of all the required filing and record-keeping necessary- turn-key, including standardized achievement testing in the spring. High School transcripts are produced at the end of each year if high school courses are completed.

Beyond Homeschool is a program specifically for those students in middle school, grades 6-8. Once a student is eligible for high school fully, we offer a virtual high school program with a personal connection and access to an academic coach throughout the week. This program is an off-shoot of our live academy program. While some of the live opportunities are not a part of the Virtual High School experience like Sim Squads or Seminar, Field trips, etc, the self-paced driven coursework has the same gamified inquiry approach, offering choice and personalized support. We are fully accredited and all students who meet the state criteria may be dually enrolled in the NC CCP program and take college courses for credit while in high school (11th and 12th grades). Graduating seniors can participate in social events. We hold a formal graduation ceremony, with regalia, speeches, and diploma & honors distribution, if they choose.

The middle school Beyond Homeschool Program involves a weekly meeting one-on-one with an academic coach remotely[zoom] or live (~45-60 minutes). Weekly coursework is laid out and personalized to the student. We build executive functioning through the teaching of tools like hot lists and individualized support in areas of need with the ability to fly solo in areas of strength. The academic coach will review all work and produce attendance and progress records at year’s end. Students completing this program may move forward with our academy program for high school either live or virtual.

The Virtual High School involves bi-weekly check-ins to review and layout self-paced work and content delivered in the learning management system. Typical remote meetings occur via zoom classroom on Mondays and Thursdays. These check-ins are open drop-in times for all students enrolled in any virtual coursework. Mondays are typically used to lay out the plans for the week, while Thursdays are to ensure weekly wrap-up and completion of work by Friday. Coaches will set up additional support time if they feel it is necessary. While families do not need to be concerned with lesson planning or record keeping, both middle school students and those in the virtual high school program may need adult oversight to ensure they are making their weekly meetings with the coaching team; especially since high school students are held accountable for making meeting times and do not receive reminders. Virtual high school students receive a transcript at the end of each semester which provides credit for those courses that have been completed. Any course with which work remains will be marked “in progress” or “IP” on a transcript. Work can be graded for feedback and scoring during the summer months, but coach meetings are held from late August through May each year.

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