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Secular Curriculum
Maryland
My niche is providing engaging, content-rich classes for gifted home schoolers and other independent learners because I home schooled two gifted kiddos myself -- from early elementary school to college! -- and know how hard it can be to find the just-right level of challenge without a ton of busywork.
I do not conflate intellectual rigor with workload and have designed my classes to be heavy on the input, relatively lighter on the output. I tend to emphasize critical thinking and connections across the curriculum. Intellectually curious students generally love my classes! (My classes are not the best choice for students who are just looking to check a box.)
For more about me, see https://www.learningoutsidethebox.net/about.html
This accelerated literature class features modern drama, from Oscar Wilde to Ayad Akhtar. Due to the pacing and content, this class can count for a full English credit.
Learning Outside the Box
This yearlong English class introduces students to engaging classic and contemporary short stories as our hook to developing literary analysis, critical thinking, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Learning Outside the Box
This accelerated literature class covers 200 years of science fiction -- 25 novels, novellas, and short stories -- in a semester. Due to the pacing and content, this class can count for a full English credit.
Learning Outside the Box
Creative, content-rich blend of U.S. and world geography. Two semesters, can be taken in either order, each with a unique combination of physical and cultural geography, thought-provoking assignments, and in-class games and activities.
Learning Outside the Box
This future-forward geography class does a deep dive on the 12 countries the U.N. has forecast to be the world's most populous in 2050. After all, that is the world in which our students will live.
Learning Outside the Box
This international relations class combines discussion of key issues shaping the future of geopolitics with an interactive world affairs simulation that is different every time!
Learning Outside the Box
This fast-paced writing class pairs traditional academic writing instruction with an exploration of generative AI: how to use it, how NOT to use it, and how college assignments are evolving in response.
Learning Outside the Box
Introductory investment class for high school students and advanced 8th graders teaching stocks, bonds, mutual funds/ETFs, commodities, crypto, and more. Students join forces to compete in the Stock Market Game simulation.
Learning Outside the Box
This discussion-based class introduces the vocabulary of philosophy and explores some of philosophy’s “greatest hits,” weaving together the work of specific philosophers (ancient and modern) with classic thought experiments and real-life examples.
Learning Outside the Box
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