We’re excited to share our new favorite word with you: Microschooling. If you’re not yet familiar with it, families are using it to describe small group teaching where they have close connections with staff. This new phrase will help build the movement and bridge students and education together.
What is it?
Microschooling is the foundations of our model! Our classes are focused on small groups, no more than 5 per group. Doing so allows the teacher to individualize instruction for everyone in the group, regardless of learning needs. This allows students to take more advance classes to move ahead, or target instruction to meet them where they’re at. In short, its a win-win.
The essential difference between microschooling and attending a traditional school is the parents-staff relationship. We take time to learn about the family’s strengths, needs, and wants from their children’s school. This makes the family an active participant, rather than on the receiving end from the traditional model. This makes building the bridge much easier, can help students better manage their social-emotional needs because everyone is on the same page.
How do we mircoschool?
Individualized Educational Services offers classes by topic, not by grade level. You’ll find our math classes, K-8, are topical to be inclusive to meet educational goals, not specific age / grade targets. Our elementary reading comprehension classes are integrated with science and social studies. This allows students to feel like they are learning something. That is, we teach content first over strategies.
We work with families attending charter schools and private schools affidavits. This lets families access public monies to pay for our classes! Families are welcome to design a program with us for 1 on 1 tutoring or small group learning. The charter school manages the attendance and grading so we get to focus on learning! We’re also happy to work with any private school record keeping that you need. Individualized Educational Services itself is not a school. This allows us to keep our flexibility of programming and vendor relationships.
Want to Learn More?
We’ll be posting more updates for you over the summer! We want all families to know their education rights so they can decide on what is best for their family. After all. each child only has one chance at their K-12 education.
Please check back in June for webinar information on how you can start your family on a Microschooling pathway!
We’re ready to students in grades 4-12 for the ’25 – ’26 academic year now. For more information:
