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Secular Curriculum
At Athena’s Advanced Academy, it’s all about your children and their future. We help parents educate their gifted children so they can nurture their child’s development to the highest potential. We are passionate about teaching gifted and talented students, including 2e & neurodivergent students, and helping them to acquire essential building blocks for future success through innovative, challenging, and dynamic à la carte courses.
Our mission is to create a stimulating and engaging educational environment that challenges gifted and talented students and promotes learning in a positive and rewarding atmosphere. Our enthusiastic educators design captivating courses that can be tailored to meet the goals in each student’s educational plan, including homeschoolers and those looking for enrichment. We help students learn how to internalize the learning process so they can grow to be confident adults with a love for exploring the world around them. Our courses provide a high level of information and allow students to synthesize the information in a way that works for them.
Dr. Kirsten Stein and the Educators at Athena’s strive to create a warm and welcoming online community and foster collaboration between students, parents, and educators who are dedicated to helping gifted and talented students grow into confident, proficient lifelong learners.
Students learning at elementary through high school levels will find secular, à la carte online courses with live weekly webinars to inspire them and help them retain their love of learning.
There are all types of classes:
Yes, you can become a real author! This class, led by an award-winning and massively productive author, teaches kids the fundamentals of book writing: plot, character, scenes, and outline, and guides them through writing a novel about anything!
Athena's Advanced Academy
Love Harry Potter? Let’s explore deeper. With Professor Valerie, who’s written six books about the series, we’ll explore complex meanings and lore. What parodies appear here of British life and popular genres?
Athena's Advanced Academy
Let's learn English AP skills like literary devices...but just using the Hamilton musical!
Athena's Advanced Academy
Yes, you can become a real author! This class, led by an award-winning and massively productive author, teaches kids the fundamentals of book writing: plot, character, scenes, and outline, and guides them through writing a novel about anything!
Athena's Advanced Academy
Oz, Narnia, Wonderland, Star Trek or Star Wars…Build your own fantasy kingdom or space empire! If you’re working on writing short stories or a novel or a screenplay or are designing a computer game or RPG, this is the class for you.
Athena's Advanced Academy
We love magical worlds, from Oz to Neverland. Together let’s have a summer fantasy book club and enjoy some really stand-out bestsellers from recent years. We’ll analyze their messages and deeper meanings. Cultures and myth too.
Athena's Advanced Academy
Need SAT Essay Writing and Reading help? SAT scores improved by 100-300 points. English, History, Spanish, French, Language Arts, English, Reading Comprehension, Public speaking, testing, Vocabulary, Grammar & Writing.
Athena's Advanced Academy
Let's learn the fun way! Did you know that The Hunger Games was largely inspired by Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? Or that the War of the Roses, which inspired the Richard and Henry plays, has also inspired top fantasy series?
Athena's Advanced Academy
Traveling through Star Wars, from classic Luke, Han, and Leia to the Mandalorian and his adorable sidekick, we’ll explore the lore of this popular series. With new shows out, we’ll look at so many...
Athena's Advanced Academy
The SAT Reading test has removed the vocabulary and now focuses on really understanding long and short passages. Together we'll learn to excel at them.
Athena's Advanced Academy
Always wondered? These quick youtubes from Valerie Estelle Frankel, author of 100 books, will take you through it.
Athena's Advanced AcademyOnline Textbooks/Workbooks
Free book analyzing the heroine's journey is popular children's and teen fantasy
Athena's Advanced AcademyTextbooks/Workbooks
Author and online teacher Valerie Estelle Frankel's book that teaches English AP literary devices using the Hamilton musical
Athena's Advanced AcademyDownloadable
Seeking games, activities, apps, and fun to brighten up online classes? From the hottest new online activities to century-old word games, there's lots of activities you can bring to the classroom. This book focuses on English and ESL for kids.
Athena's Advanced AcademyDownloadable
Learn how to use ProWritingAid.com, an excellent free app for improving your writing style.
Athena's Advanced AcademyOnline Textbooks/Workbooks
How can you make your fantasy or science fiction world come alive? Charts, checklists, it's all here. Come learn how in this short free guide book
Athena's Advanced AcademyTextbooks/Workbooks
Tutoring in San Jose area or on Zoom: Need SAT Essay Writing and Reading help? SAT scores improved by 100-300 points. English, History, Spanish, French, Language Arts, English, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Writing.
Athena's Advanced AcademySunnyvale, CA (Happy to travel to your South Bay Area home or local library) Online available too.
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