Curriculum
At Blue Ridge Academy, our academic programs are customizable to meet the needs of every learner. Credentialed teachers, parents, and students work as a team to design a personalized learning plan that will include:
- A wide variety of curriculum options offered through a number of different platforms
- An abundance of resources, materials, and experiences to enrich the student’s learning environment
- Field trips and student activities
- Academic support for all students
With multiple curricular options available, we are confident you will find the one that fits your needs. Students have the opportunity to choose their curriculum from bundles and kits, including but not limited to, Timberdoodle, Bookshark, Moving Beyond the Page, and Oak Meadow. We partner with quality online providers in every area and we encourage students to think creatively with ASU Prep Digital, Brighton College, BYU Independent Study, Edgenuity, Edmentum EdOptions, Florida Virtual, LanguageBird, Odysseyware Academy, Rosetta Stone, Silicon Valley High School, UC Scout and more. Come to Blue Ridge Academy and explore your options.
Acellus
Grades K-12
Acellus offers rigorous, engaging, and self-paced online courses presented by experienced teachers in a format that students can access from a computer, phone, or tablet whenever they wish. In addition to video instruction, questions, and periodic exams, most courses contain a number of special lessons. Special lessons are offline lessons designed to build depth into the course with additional instruction for at home labs, composition activities, projects, and debate topics. Parents, Homeschool Teachers, and students can see the student’s progress at any time, check the days worked as well as the time students have spent in each course, daily, monthly, and year to date.
ALEKS
Grades 3-12
Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS) is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system for mathematics courses. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and does not know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics he or she is most ready to learn. As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained. ALEKS courses are very complete in their topic coverage and ALEKS avoids multiple-choice questions.
Edgenuity
Grades 6-12
Edgenuity courses for English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, World Languages, Career Technical Education (CTE), and electives are designed to help students meet the rigor of Common Core and state standards. The courses offer direct-instruction videos from expert teachers with multimedia & interactive learning tools.
Key Features:
- Online curriculum
- Built in accommodations (text-to-speech, translations) for all students
- Parent Portal with weekly emailed progress reports
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Edmentum EdOptions Academy
Grades 6-12
Edmentum EdOptions courses for english language arts, math, science, social studies, world languages, career technical education (CTE), and electives are designed to help students meet the rigor of Common Core and state standards. The courses offer direct-instruction from expert teachers with multimedia & interactive learning tools.
Edmentum EdOptions Academy Info Sheet
Key Features:
- Online curriculum
- Built in accommodations (text-to-speech, translations) for all students
- Parent Portal with weekly emailed progress reports
| Grades 6-8 | Grades 9-12 |
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Lincoln Empowered
Grades TK-8
The Lincoln Empowered curriculum delivers proven, textbook-free instruction that generates student excitement and creativity in science, language arts, math, social studies, wellness, music, and visual arts. Each lesson’s variety of digital learning objects (e.g., instructional texts, videos, games, interactive simulations, assessments) gives students multiple ways to engage with, understand, and demonstrate mastery of the content. By breaking national and state standards into key learning objectives and presenting students with concrete learning objects, we help them to master standards in a manageable fashion.
Key Features:
- Comes with online and offline lesson delivery, including books and manipulatives
- Updated thematic units incorporated into Math, Science, Reading, Writing, and Social Studies
McGraw-Hill
Grades TK-12
McGraw Hill curriculum is a nationally-recognized traditional textbook program with collaborative options in various content areas. English courses offer interactive consumable textbooks in grades 6-12. This program is fully supported by Homeschool Teachers.
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Odysseyware
Grades 3-12
Odysseyware's learning management system, research based and proven core curriculum, assessments, and robust and targeted learning tools, provide students with powerful learning solutions that can be utilized in a myriad of instructional settings. Odysseyware was intentionally designed to meet the needs of 21st century learners and address diverse learning styles, by incorporating embedded interactive, multimedia instructional videos, learning games, rich illustrations, and animations.
Key Features:
- Lessons are online and include optional, hands-on activities
- Customizable courses to fit student’s needs
- Built in accommodations (text-to-speech, note taking, translations) for all students
| Odysseyware - Grades 3-12 | Odysseyware Academy - Grades 6-12 |
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Redbird
Grades K-7
Developed by Stanford University, the Redbird curriculum features the latest in adaptive instruction, gamification, and digital project-based learning. Redbird Mathematics combines more than 20 years of research from pioneers of adaptive learning with today’s most advanced education technologies. Redbird Language Arts & Writing's proven blend of instruction, interactive practice, and innovative writing analysis technology allows every writer in the classroom to soar.
Key Features:
- Online/adaptive program that starts with pretest to target student needs
- Mathematics for grades K-7
- Language Arts/Writing for grades 3-7