Curriculum Map

Through our partnership with the Hillsdale College K-12 Education Office, we offer a content-rich curriculum that helps ensure that a student’s learning is integrated between subjects and across grade levels.

K-8 Curriculum Highlights

Here at SOCA we emphasize a classical education in the humanities, the sciences, and the arts using several research-based curricula/programs in the elementary and middle schools, which include:

• The Core Knowledge Sequence (Note that this is not Common Core)
• Explicit Phonics: a program based on Orton-Gillingham research and methods
• Singapore Math (a traditional approach to mathematical skill building and problem solving)
• Integrated Fine Arts and Music programs
• Reading the Classics in literature classes in grades K-12
• Classical approach to the study of science
• The study of Latin in Grades 6-9, with introduction of Latin and Greek roots in Grades 4-5
• Grammar and Composition instruction in Grades 3-8