Meeting Colorado students where they are academically. Inspire the best in your child.
The Academy Calvert K-8 Online School is a virtual public school dedicated to inspiring students in grades K-8 to realize their full potential in a 21st Century learning environment utilizing a proven curriculum, expert instructional support, and instructional systems designed to encourage academic excellence. Leveraging the partnership between student, professional teacher, parents, peers and other members of the academic community,Academy Calvert K-8 Online School creates a learning environment that empowers students who participate in distance education programs to achieve success.
Since 1906, the non-profit Calvert organization has helped children to realize their academic potential despite the constraints of income and geography. The foundation of the Academy Calvert K-8 Online program is the high-quality, research-based, and standards aligned Calvert curriculum, which has been producing results for over a century.
Each student will benefit from the implementation of the Calvert curriculum driven by a professional learning community composed of a supervising Academy Calvert certified teacher, a Calvert online mentoring teacher, Calvert Education Counselors, and enriched by the daily support and encouragement of their Learning Guide.
The Academy Calvert K-8 Online public virtual school program propels Colorado students forward into the 21st Century workplace.
The Academy Calvert K-8 Online is committed to:
• Improving student learning
• Increasing learning opportunities for students
• Encouraging the use of a variety of productive teaching methods
• Establishing new forms of accountability for schools
• Creating new professional opportunities for teachers as instructors and program leaders
• Assisting Colorado in reaching academic excellence
Building upon the core of the rigorous Calvert curriculum—fundamentals of reading, composition writing, arithmetic, critical thinking, and arts and sciences—students employ specific skills that are meaningful in today’s academic environment. Through collaborative learning, leadership development, and increased technological application, students receive the skills they need to succeed in a present day economy.
The Academy Calvert K-8 Online combines the best of tradition and innovation by blending the trusted Calvert curriculum, the oversight of a professional teaching team, and the innovative technology needed to serve the public virtual school students of Colorado.
