Elevated Classes are highly interactive virtual classes that meet live online, taught by an Elevated teacher who understands and implements the Elevated Learning Model. Hands-on class materials and books are shipped directly to students, and classes include hands-on and digital learning.
Grades K - 3
Ages 5 - 8
These classes provide foundational reading instruction with a focus on phonics and decoding, so that students can transition to reading to learn with the skills needed to fluently read narrative and informational texts and continue on to build comprehension skills. Students build basic writing skills using Handwriting Without Tears workbooks.
Our teachers use hands-on materials, engaging visuals, games, and student interaction to create an engaging experience during live classes. Students complete practice pages and projects outside of class to reinforce skills taught during live class sessions.
Reading Pathfinders is offered in levels A, B, & C. Consult your Cohort Teacher to determine the right skills level for your student.
Story Pathfinders is a bridge between foundational reading and full Language Arts skills including understanding of story elements, comprehension, and critical thinking in response to both narrative and informational texts. Students continue to build advanced reading skills including strategies for decoding more complex words, using Latin & Greek roots, and content-specific site words. Students also learn story elements (plot, characters, setting, conflict, etc) and how each impacts the message or theme of a story, as well as strategies for identifying key parts of an informational text to enhance comprehension. Student also build skills in writing, including understanding sentence structure and building sentences and paragraphs in both narrative and informational student writing.
Teachers use hands-on materials, engaging visuals, games, and student interaction to create an engaging experience during live classes. Students complete practice pages and projects outside of class to reinforce skills taught during live class sessions.
Students build K-2 foundational math skills, including: number sense, counting & cardinality, operations & algebraic thinking, base-ten operations, measurement & data, and geometry. Our teachers use Singapore Dimensions as the core curriculum, supplementing it with their own math stories, games, and projects.
During live classes, teachers will lead students in a variety of activities including: brainstorming strategies to solve math problems, discussing real-world applications, working with math hands-on and digital manipulatives, playing games, singing songs, and using movement to help young students enjoy and retain skills & content.
Students will practice skills outside of class with workbooks, hands-on materials, real-world projects, and digital learning resources.
At the end of each Unit, students complete a Key Assignment, integrating the skills taught and practiced throughout the Unit in a project-based assignment that brings math into real life.
Math Pathfinders is offered in levels A, B, & C. Consult your Cohort Teacher to determine the right skills level for your student.
Grades 3 - 5
Ages 8 - 12
details coming soon
Math Explorers is offered in levels A, B, & C. Consult your Cohort Teacher to determine the right skills level for your student.
Grades 6 - 8
Ages 11 - 14
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*This class can be taken by 9th graders for high school elective credit
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Math Adventures is offered in levels A, B, & C. Consult your Cohort Teacher to determine the right skills level for your student.
*Level C can be taken by 9th graders for high school elective credit
A Science RPG teaching concepts in Physical & Earth Science.
Intro to our story: 1000 Years ago, the Darkness had taken over the world of Terra Firma. The great overlord Ignorance ruled over the entire kingdom. However, in and amongst the chaos, three shining warriors, Dutch, Trinian, & Deslock (the sons of thunder) came out of the darkness and used the power of the photonic force to conjure the Illumination to fight back the Darkness and bring a millennia of peace. However, there have been reports of mysterious happenings and the Elders of Illumination have predicted that the Darkness has returned to destroy the four kingdoms of the Terra Firma’s Biosphere. You have been recruited to take on an incredible quest, to find the Son’s of Thunder and save us all. Create your Hero! Journey to the four kingdoms of the world! Save the world!
*This class can be taken by 9th graders for high school elective credit
High School Courses
As enrollment and staffing unfold for the 25/26 school year, we will add additional high school classes and clubs for all grade levels.
If we do not teach a high school class that your student wants, we will connect you with resources that can provide that course, and it will appear on your student's ECS High School Transcript.