Great Hearts Microschools student online class

Over the past year or so, families accept experienced—by necessity—new educational models, including altitude learning and online school. What if we could take the best aspects of virtual school, such as flexibility and family togetherness, and provide additional support and sense of community? This is what we are building into Slap-up Hearts Microschools, based on the Peachy Hearts Online platform.

Growing Community at Great Hearts Microschools

Imagine . . .

  • Gathering your children with a few others in your community to do school together in a shared concrete space.
  • This strong-knit group of families and children, beyond multiple grade levels, living life and doing schoolhouse together.
  • This small community joins their teachers and other students across the state for a few hours each morning in meaningful, alive virtual classes.
  • Your kindergartener has a kinder teacher, specific to them, and a earth-grade kindergarten classical curriculum. Your fourth grader has a quaternary grade teacher, specific to them, and a world-grade classical 4th course curriculum.
  • Each student in your in-person grouping has their ain online teacher, their ain virtual community, their ain individualized feedback and instruction.
  • After live, virtual classes, your unique customs is learning and growing together in-person through hands-on projects, reading great books, playing sports, and designing science experiments.

Welcome to a Great Hearts Microschool! For families who are willing and able, their students will receive a rigorous, grade-and-content-specific online education with world class curriculum and instructors alongside a close-knit, in-person, and flexible community. Nosotros volition pilot Great Hearts Microschools during the 2021–2022 school year to promote additional customs and flexibility for families, while building on the platform of Swell Hearts Online.

Building on Swell Hearts Online

All students in Great Hearts Microschools volition be enrolled in Great Hearts Online, a virtual classical academy that launched in Texas in January 2022 and will launch in Arizona for August 2021.

We believe that school communities matter securely—for student germination, for family unit well-beingness, for bookish success, and for student happiness. With Great Hearts Online, we create community virtually through small form sizes, live classes, daily homerooms, lunch gatherings with families, an active Parent Service Arrangement, and small intervention groups. We train and develop our faculty in creating genuine virtual communities, and students share that they are excited to come to school and see their friends every day. Additionally, we are facilitating the gathering of families and students—nigh and in-person—through school events also as by form-level and regional parent-organized gatherings.

Great Hearts Microschools will be powered by Great Hearts Online. Students will be enrolled in Nifty Hearts Online as the core academic program and Great Hearts Microschools as an additional community and support layer wrapped around this rich, educational model. Great Hearts Microschools will provide in-person grade and family community, educatee support, and enrichment.

Great Hearts Online student

Piloting Dandy Hearts Microschools

In pursuit of additional community and school flexibility options, we are piloting Great Hearts Microschools next yr, and we are seeking input and participation from families. What we are building, with Great Hearts Online equally the foundation, is a national trunk of families and students, continued past a mutual purpose, in community and citizenship together. We will offer excellence in virtual classical education with a focus on tight-knit online and in-person communities.

The Great Hearts Microschool model is a location-based, flexible community with corresponding quality control, preparation, support, and enrichment. At a Great Hearst Microschool, scholars will attend live virtual classes with students across the land, socialize and play together with their in person Microschool peers, receive asynchronous assignment back up, and participate in a diversity of clubs and enrichment opportunities.

Currently, we are talking with multiple parent communities and are actively iterating on the design based on these conversations. Simultaneously, we accept posted a task description for a Managing director of Microschools and Local Communities who will work closely with our Executive Director, Kurtis Indorf, to pilot Microschools in partnership with parents and communities.

In the coming weeks, our website, greatheartsonline.org, and our social media feeds, including Facebook, will accept more information nearly Keen Hearts Microschools. Nosotros are looking to talk with families about deploying Microschools in the 2021–2022 academic year, and so please wait for details and sign upwards for an upcoming conversation. In the meantime, employ now for enrollment at Great Hearts Online. Scholars must be enrolled in Cracking Hearts Online in gild to participate in Slap-up Hearts Microschools.

Charter Moms Chats

Kurtis Indorf, Executive Director of Great Hearts Online, joins Inga Cotton to talk over Great Hearts microschools on Charter Moms Chats on May 11, 2022 at 4:00 PM Central live on Facebook and YouTube.

As the Executive Director of Smashing Hearts Online, Indorf is leading the design, development, launch, and growth of Swell Hearts' classical online academies. Indorf joined Peachy Hearts Texas as the Executive Director of Instruction, charged with launching and leading a new strategy and team to support potent pedagogy and accomplishment beyond Keen Hearts' growing school network in Texas. Indorf also provides executive level consulting and systems advising to select clients as the Founder and Managing Partner of Build the Futurity, LLC. He serves every bit the Chair of the Board of Directors for Compass Rose Pedagogy, a high performing and rapidly growing charter network in San Antonio, Texas.

Previously, Indorf served in various leadership roles at KIPP Public Lease Schools, including Chief Academic Officer, Chief People Officer, Deputy Chief of Academics, and Head of Schools. Before joining KIPP, Indorf was the founding Executive Director of The Achievement Network in Colorado building partnerships with commune and charter systems across the state to develop leaders' skill in leadership development and information-informed teaching and learning. Likewise in Colorado, he served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Charter School Institute'southward lath of directors, an independent state agency and the only state-wide charter authorizer in Colorado.

Before in his career, Indorf served in four founding school and district leadership roles at Accomplishment Kickoff, a public, charter direction organisation running thirty+ schools in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Isle. He started his career didactics English Language Learners in Phoenix, Arizona through Teach for America.

Indorf lives in San Antonio with his wife, three daughters, and domestic dog. He received a Chief's of Scientific discipline in Education from Arizona State University with a focus in secondary English language curriculum and instruction and a Bachelor'southward of Science from Ithaca College in Integrated Marketing Communications and Legal Studies.

Read More than Most Great Hearts Online

  • "Choosing Online Individual Schools,"San Antonio Charter Moms, May 13, 2021
  • "Groovy Hearts Online: Classical Pedagogy in a Fully Online School," San Antonio Charter Moms, April five, 2021
  • "Guide to Enrolling in Peachy Hearts Texas Schools in San Antonio for 2020–2021," San Antonio Charter Moms, October twenty, 2020
  • "My Child My Voice Parent Connection: Groovy Hearts Online with Kurtis Indorf, Annika Cotton, and Inga Cotton wool," Facebook Alive, October eight, 2020
  • "Online Schools in Texas," San Antonio Lease Moms, Baronial 18, 2020
  • "Great Hearts Northern Oaks School Profile," San Antonio Lease Moms, December 3, 2019