Insight Colearning Center builds an educational experience in which students use 2-4 seminar style courses as a base from which to research, explore, and create in community with teachers, advisors, peers, and parents. Bimonthly academic advising with students, the use of a collegiate study hall for coworking and socialization, and parent education courses are all integral parts of the model we offer.

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A multiple-path approach

At Insight Colearning Center the curriculum is designed to give students multiple paths through a school year with coherent and overlapping themes. Because students are only required to take 3-4 classes per semester, students may find their own road through the fulfillment of key requirements. For example, in Academic Year 2020-2021 (see button below), a student who wishes to be particularly math intensive in their first year might take Algebra I and Logic and Proof in their first semester, and Trigonometry and Programming Basics in their second, gaining credit for Algebra I, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Applied and Conceptual Mathematics all in their first year. Other students may prefer to pursue their practical Mathematical understanding through a less traditional approach, and might fulfill their Geometry requirement through Logic and Proof, and their Algebra requirement through Programming Basics, with support from the instructor and their advisor.

Building Blocks without Pre-requisites

Humanities and science courses are designed both to build on one another and to provide self-contained wholes as well. For example, a student who takes Environmental Chemistry in Spring 2020 would find that their knowledge of Botany from Fall 2019 is useful and deepened; however a student who has not taken Botany will not be at a disadvantage. Similarly, the courses in Buddhist Literatures and Buddhist History can speak to and deepen one another, but the former is not a prerequisite for the latter; and so too with Revolutions of Europe and the Americas. In addition, Logic and Proof in Fall 2019 may build a strong foundation for Philosophy in the West in Spring 2020; but Women’s Literature in England provides a different kind of entrée to philosophical questions, one which is no less valuable.

Bimonthly Academic Advising

Insight’s courses are meant to work together in a variety of ways, and through one-on-one advising students will be supported in their efforts to choose a path that appeals to them while also fulfilling their graduation and phase requirements. This support doesn’t end after students have chosen their courses either. During advising they are assisted in the process of drawing connections across their coursework as they look to future courses as well.