School-wide

   A typical Ascend classroom day covers core subjects such as Math, Science, History, Literature, and Vocabulary or Spelling.   Confidence is built through weekly presentations.  Curriculum based science experiments and guest speakers give students hands-on, real life learning.

Grade K-4

Honing in on lower elementary  grammar skills (Phase 1 of trivium), students participate in leveled reading groups using Reading A to Z, develop an understanding of what makes a good writer while introducing Institute of Excellence in Writing basics, and engage in quality, classic literature, as well as obtain fine arts enrichment.

Grade 4-6

Our upper elementary class will engage in group discussion through Logic and Literature, strengthen skills using Institute of Excellence in Writing, and develop independent planning skills of weekly assignments.  Students will continue Phase 1, grammar stage,  of the trivium and begin to ease into Phase 2, the logic stage.

Grade 7-8

Our middle School students are now squarely in phase 2 of the trivium - the logic phase. This group is questioning everything and our curriculum meets them head on.  They will be challenged with a classical approach through learning history, literature, writing, and logic.  Group discussions encourage students' diversity in learning.