Two hours of practice. Four hours of making.

Mornings are for skills, at each student's own pace. Afternoons are for real work with a real audience. Then everyone goes home, or stays for Extended Day.

  1. Practice8:30, two hours: math, reading, writing, then the 10:30 seminar
  2. MakingFour hours, to 3:00: seminar, lab, studio, the quest
  3. Extended Day3:00 to 5:30, if you need it

Students do real work, finish it, and show it to someone.

Mornings are practice.

Math, reading, and writing at each student's own pace, with a guide in the room. Nobody waits for the class to catch up, and nobody gets left behind it. Two hours, done well, and done.

Afternoons are for making.

History, literature, and science are taught by a person with a book, never by an app. Studio runs in six-week projects with a real audience: a video game, a robot, a sculpture, a short documentary, a zine the school press publishes, a song the ensemble performs.

Big work gets defended out loud.

No slides, no screen. A student, their work, and good questions.

A week at Soundline.

Same rhythm every week, so the work can be different. Every morning at 10:30, the whole school: one real thing from town, one question, and the students name the skills it takes. Monday history, Tuesday math, Wednesday literature, Thursday science.

Monday

Launch

8:45. One question, one goal, one plan for the week.

Tuesday

Lab, then studio

Ninety minutes, hands on, written up before studio. Then everyone makes something: a video game, a robot, a portrait, a sculpture, a song for the ensemble.

Wednesday

Seminar

The long one. A novel, a question, a paragraph. Every seminar ends in writing.

Thursday

Apprenticeships

Grades 7 and 8 work alongside someone who does it for a living. Younger students build their quest.

Friday

All In, then Showcase

The whole school takes on one thing together. A song, a mural, a project for someone in town. At 2:00, someone presents and something is performed. Usually loud. Families welcome.

Two ways in.

The School, five days

For families ready to make the move.

Monday to Friday, 8:30 to 3:00, with Extended Day until 5:30. Enroll, and that's it. No homeschool paperwork.

The Collaborative, three days

For homeschooling families.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Same guides, same rooms, same studio. You keep your homeschool plan, and we hand you the course descriptions and hours logs to go with it.

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