One Schoolhouse

Our mission is to empower learning and transform education. We do this by: leading through innovation; inspiring learners; and partnering with schools and organizations. One Schoolhouse is a supplemental educational organization that provides courses and programs for students and adult learners. We start with what all thriving schools do well: buil... d authentic relationships. Recognizing that the student-teacher relationship forms the foundation for all learning, we position the learner at the center of the course and design curriculum backwards from the learner. Our classes are personalized, competency-based, and learner-driven. Our program uses personalized learning as our primary pedagogical approach. In personalized courses, educators harness the power of technology to chart a new direction for content sequences, academic proficiencies, and student agency. We use a classic model of constructivist learning to promote student agency, where learning is relevant, hands-on, and inquiry-driven. Students are equipped with the capacity to measure their knowledge and skills, and then given some choice in what and how they learn. The tools of personalized instruction increase efficiency and effectiveness around differentiation, remediation, and project-based learning. We believe that choice increases engagement, and engaged students learn more. Our girls program expands on the personalized approaches used in all classes, by adding what great girls schools do to create effective single-gender girls environments: connecting the girls to each other; requiring meaningful collaboration; encouraging expressions of creativity; and having the girls apply what they learn to real-world problems. Thus, our girls courses add four pillars to our personalized learning approach: Connection, Collaboration, Creativity, and Application. In our professional development programming, we strive to be a partner for schools in developing best practice approaches both in the classroom and in their operations. We share with schools the ...Read More