Vine Academy

h school of their choice, develop executive functioning skills, and much more…

But, something was missing. It’s so rewarding to help a student with one tough class or test. Other times though, tutoring can feel like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. We realized what some of these students needed wasn’t tutoring but a different approach to learning. Our dream to start our own school was born. The Patterns

In our typical compulsion to collect data, we started to look closely at the students who didn’t seem to be best served by traditional schools. Here’s what we saw:

Smart or gifted students who were not working to their potential. Students who had been inquisitive in their elementary years but had lost their intellectual curiosity. Students who were falling behind at school not because they were missing the knowledge or skills, but because of waning motivation and lack of executive functioning skills. Next, we looked at traditional schools. Traditional schools have many merits and serve many talented students. In each school though, a number of students fall through the cracks and are not achieving to their potential. At the heart of this problem are the things that our traditional schools are missing:

developing advanced writing skills in students
allowing customization for giftedness and special needs without alienating students
teaching executive functioning skills
helping students to purse their academic passions and interests
customizing to every student

Our Dream

From this reflection and research, we designed Vine Academy. We took the best of everything we could find in traditional and alternative education formats. We addressed every major weakness we saw in traditional schools. We designed our school for students whose amazing potential was not being actualized.