K¹² Gives Kids the Chance to Think Big

At K¹², we nurture inquisitive minds with the simple approach that Big Ideas + Consecutive Down Payments + Practice = Mastery. Throughout our K through 8 course offerings you will find certain recurring themes that build on the previous grades' teaching and weave an ever-richer tapestry of knowledge. Our individualized approach means students can go as fast or slow as they need to. And with more than 700 lessons per subject, they can dive deeply into areas of interest.

Engaging Content Makes Learning Come Alive

The K¹² curriculum brings K-8 lessons to life with a rich mixture of on- and offline teaching tools, including interactive animations, award-winning printed books with beautiful illustrations and narrative, original CDs and videos, and hands-on materials for experiments. Lessons are followed by assessments so you can be sure that your student has mastered a particular area before moving on. Built-in planning and progress tools make it easy to keep on track.

Each lesson is created by a team of experts at K¹², using tried-and-true educational approaches and our patented methodology for online instruction. Our core subjects—Language Arts/English, Math, Science, History, World Language, Art, and Music—can be taken separately for supplemental learning or enrichment, or combined into a full-time schooling option. The lesson plans for each subject are integrated, so your student may be reading literature from the same time period as the art or history lesson she is studying. What begins as a story about a king who lost his wife may end up with an examination of the architecture and history of the Taj Mahal, built as a monument to a dead queen.

Mastery Should be Possible for Everyone

Our specialty is individualized learning. Our curriculum is based on cognitive science, decades of research about learning, and tried-and-true methodologies. What does all that mean to you? Basically, it means we focus on how brains actually learn, on the concepts and skills kids need to succeed in each subject area, and on wrapping our lessons with rich, engaging content that turns minds on.

All kinds of minds—not just the "best and brightest." We believe that academic success leads to career success and that many, many kids can get there. But we also recognize that there is more than one way of learning—that not all kids learn in the same way. Given the right mix of tools and approaches, mastery should be for everyone.

Our curriculum is provided in a way that allows you to adjust to the pace, schedule, and learning style that works best for your students—which could vary day by day and subject by subject. We've set out very clear lesson objectives for each day, and our assessments are designed to help the teacher and/or parent gauge when your student has mastered each objective. We've also included a variety of activities; the type and amount of activity needed to master each lesson objective will vary by subject and child. Teachers determine if a child can move on, or needs to slow things down and do more to cement a concept or skill.

We also know how to match the right learning tool to the task. We use rich digital media and animations when a lesson is best taught using interactivity. We use beautiful illustrations and words that make stories and ideas jump off the page when print works best. And we use paint, rocks, dirt and other messy stuff when the best approach is to get their hands dirty. These approaches help engage young minds in the right ways.

It doesn't matter whether a child is used to being the head of the class, feeling left behind, or somewhere in between—we will help you set them on the right path, we will give you the best tools and we will support you as you guide students through some of the best educational experiences.

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