Mission & Values
At Horizon Outschool Academy, we are disrupting the traditional conveyor belt model of learning everything about nothing. Here we emphasize practical knowledge, critical thinking, and ethical decision making.
Indispensable to this mission are responsibility, integrity, and self-discipline.
In this way we empower students to lead purposeful and meaningful lives now and in the future. Instead of being schooled, students are being educated.
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To learn something new a student has to do something new and often be somewhere new. We believe this happens best away from the desk (think Magic School Bus). Our students will take ownership of their learning in as many real world environments as possible. ​
About
A microschool is a private homeschooling group. Technically, any school that is non publicly funded meets this definition. The only difference between us and your typical private school is that we don't keep track of your students with standardized state testing...or stress them out with arbitrary busy work...or bore them to tears...or grade them like meat...okay, so there are a lot of differences. But that's great news, because chances are if you don't learn your best stuck in meetings all day, neither do they! Let's ditch the desk and start learning.