Scholarly Class
Always working toward excellence!
Positive Culture
High expectations for attitude and performance and enthusiastic Scholarly Coaches create positive classroom culture.
Academic Work
Students excel when we believe in them and treat them intelligently. Our work is rigorous because students can do it!
Feedback and Goals
Timely, personalized feedback based on goals is essential to growth. We deliver instant reading and writing feedback.
Standards-Based Learning
Scholarly Coaches (classroom teachers) focus on building academic skills every day because Scholarly learning outcomes are based on the College and Career Readiness Standards.
- Ensure students receive adaptive and differentiated reading, writing, and listening practice every day.
- Explicitly teach grade-level standards with a blended approach to learning through online lessons and direct instruction.
- Develop reading and writing fluency in preparation for state and local exams.
- Master transferable, academic skills so students can strategically apply skills in their content area classes.
- Provide continuous, personalized feedback for reading, listening, and writing.
- Involve students in the learning process by setting attainable growth goals.
- Consistently support students with smart scaffolds that respond to individual student's needs, leading to greater confidence.
Reading Practice and Assessment
Close opportunity gaps by increasing reading reps every week. Students gain confidence as they read on our adaptive, online program and sharpen their reading skill as they read with their Scholarly Coach (classroom teacher). Students fall in love with fictional stories and learn how to read informational and argumentative texts with an analytical eye.
- Deliver adaptive and differentiated reading practice that meet students where they are, motivating them to grow.
- Motivate students do try their best with our engaging pedagogy and gamified approach to learning.
- Introduce students to a variety of high-interest texts across subjects, deepening their knowledge of critical content and subject-specific vocabulary.
- Utilize up-to-the-minute reading data to help monitor students' mastery of standards and skills.
- Enhance instruction with embedded assessments that report in real-time how students are doing.
- Gain access to dynamic dashboards, making it easy for Scholarly Coaches to conference with their students about their data.
- Easily target individual learning needs with our Skill Connect Curriculum which connects performance data to lessons.
- Keep students and families in the know with our parent portal.
A Writing Universe
Support student writers like never before, and let us support the teacher like never before. The Scholarly writing platform builds confidence in young writers throughout the writing process and auto-grades their writing, providing rubric scores and instant, personalized feedback. Yep, we do all that so the Scholarly Coaches can spend more time coaching their writers and less time grading.
- Increase weekly writing practice, closing opportunity gaps around writing standards and the writing process.
- Master essential writing standards and develop writing fluency in preparation for state and local writing exams.
- Engage students in Collaborative Peer Review, teaching them how to read as a writers and help each other grow.
- Give instant, personalized writing feedback every week.
- Enhance learning with a transferable writing process that students can use across content areas.
- Gain access to writing standards data based on authentic, student writing.
Build Community
With our Scholarly Class, passionate Scholarly Coaches (classroom teachers) have the time in the school day to create an incredible learning environment where community building and forging connections becomes the foundation of learning and growing together. Throughout the week, Young Scholars engage in various activities like journaling, character lessons, community time, and Family Friday that help all learners feel a sense of belonging.
- Engage in weekly journaling that help them focus on themselves and explore their voice through writing.
- Enjoy "WIN" time during the week to do what they need to do in order to meet their goals that week. Students can study for a test, organize their backpacks, read lines for an upcoming play, finish homework, etc.
- Gather as a family and learn how to communicate as a community of Scholars.
- Explore the character traits of successful people in order to identify those skills in themselves and sharpen them.
- Connect through team building, college days, and Family Fridays.
Instructional Design
Each week, your young Scholars experience thoughtful instructional design that engages them in learning routines that seamlessly incorporate reading, speaking, and writing skills. The instructional design in the Scholarly Class develops the whole child and builds confidence as students develop essential skills and character.
- Explicitly teach college and career readiness standards.
- Engage students in thoughtful conversations every day.
- Provide time each week to help students get organized, study for tests, and complete projects.
- Expand students' understanding of college preparedness and explore various aspects of college including majors, college campuses, and degrees.
- Enhance research and study skills that transfer to core academic classes.
Scholarly delivers college readiness!
Close Reading
Increase opportunities for students to master close reading skills so that they can become more strategic readers; analyzing both what texts say and what authors do.
Text-dependent Writing
Explicitly teach and rehearse the various components of introducing and integrating sources to ensure students master this essential writing skill.
Academic Conversations
Engage students in authentic conversations about texts and teach them how to defend their ideas by referencing textual details when speaking and writing.
Grit and Perseverance
Research on Grit suggests students who experience success more often are those who are gritty and can persevere. That's why grit is central to our character education.
Collaboration
The ability to effective collaborate is essential. In the Scholarly Class, students use communication to learn from each other, grow as a community, and help each other.
Creativity
Scholarly students constantly analyze evaluate, and apply new knowledge. They are challenged with complex tasks that require ingenuity, creativity, and self-reflection.