Collaborative

Students attend school 3 days per week, spending alternate days learning at home. Collaborative schools are springing up all over the world, though called by varying names: University-Model® education, hybrid or cottage schools, or conservatories. We use the terms Collaborative or Hybrid education to describe Cypress Grove. Unique to this model is the structure and professional nature of a traditional school but with fewer hours in a classroom setting each week. When our students are at CGA, classrooms look much like those in traditional schools. Our teachers are professionals who are experts in their areas of teaching. They assign tests, quizzes, and projects to their students and give grades to reflect the learning that is happening. However, our parents collaborate with teachers in this model, with parents of students in the Grammar Stage truly functioning as co-teachers on home days and parents of students in the Logic and Rhetoric Stages functioning as mentors to their older children, holding them accountable to their work, as they become more independent in their education. At all ages, the school and classroom teachers provide the structure – choosing the curriculum, giving assignments and grades – while parents at home offer individual support as their students grow and learn.