Curriculum
Yorktown Education provides accelerated, individually paced learning for all students with strong core curriculum, more advanced instruction and more electives than any other K-12 school system. Courses >
Yorktown focuses on the free market world that is increasing sway across the world. Future knowledge needs will change. The Educational Editorial Board will oversee the curriculum program with specialty boards overseeing each major section.
There are certain basic knowledge and frameworks that should be mastered by everyone. These include math, science, communication skills (English, writing, presentation, etc.), and world context and life skills.
A broad program of electives will expose students to many topics. This gives a fuller understanding of the world, options available to students and understanding of how others may influence these options. Discussions with a member of the Boys Scouts of America Board of Directors about licensing and converting their merit badge program (over 100 subjects) into online electives covering topics from Architecture to Zoology are continuing.
Curriculum will be improved and change each year according to a long-term growth plan that will also be revised each year. It is better to start now with the best available curriculum products and continue to improve every year rather than starting from scratch and taking more money and time with no guarantee of a better product. The starting blocks Yorktown will use are already serving over 100,000 students (in various forms) worldwide.
Yorktown believes the educational cycle is long term. The advance learning (IP and Advanced Placement) programs that are starting to gain traction in today’s private (and best public) high schools are focused on advanced high school students. This is too little too late. Yorktown will start with middle school and moving start time to 1st grade and kindergarten later. Yorktown will also push the advanced program options across its student population.
Continuous improvement and development of curriculum is expected, especially in the first few years of operation. Yorktown will also actively solicit input and updates from the teaching staff. The teaching staff will be compensated for their efforts.
Curriculum will be delivered via Internet with pace and delivery by the student’s customized plan. For instance, professional athletes or those working a job will have slower schedule to provide more free time while keeping a minimum schedule. Some students will have a full-time, year-round speed schedule if their goal is to enter graduate school before 20 years of age.
Yorktown's chosen curriculum partners offer the best of breed solutions. These available partners include:
- Aventa Learning
- Apex Learning
- Class.com
- Compass Learning
- Learning Springs
- Ecollege may provide the technical online infrastructure and technical help desk. They already provide this service for 9 of the 12 largest for-profit online colleges, including the Phoenix University subsidiary of Apollo group handling over 100,000 current students.
