Curriculum Overview

A Classical American Curriculum

NEOCA is steadfast in our belief that the Classical American curriculum offers students (and teachers) the greatest opportunity to succeed in life! Classical education focuses on the student to enrich and enhance their capacity to learn and to leverage that growth to deliver learning results that far exceed today’s public education averages and standards.

Our culture:

• Demands moral virtue, decorum, respect, discipline, and studiousness among the students and faculty—and simultaneously produces a spirit of wonder and a desire to know that which is good, true, and beautiful.

Our Curriculum:

• Emphasizes the centrality of the Western tradition in the study of history, literature, philosophy, and the fine arts.
• Features a rich and recurring examination of the American literary, moral, philosophical, political, and historical traditions to equip students for citizenship.
• Is balanced and strong across the four core disciplines of math, science, literature, and history, with explicit phonics instruction leading to reading fluency and explicit grammar instruction leading to language mastery.
• Is taught by well-educated and articulate teachers who are central to the classroom, in contrast to conventional “student-centered learning” models.