Learning designed around the whole scholar.
At ScholarMade, Personalized Learning and Emotional Intelligence work together to meet each scholar’s academic, social, and emotional needs. Our approach gives scholars meaningful ownership of their learning while helping them build the confidence, relationships, and skills they need for life.
Two connected foundations.
One whole-child approach.
ScholarMade brings together Personalized Learning and Emotional Intelligence to support how scholars learn, build relationships, make thoughtful choices, and grow.
Together, they prepare scholars for learning and life.
Instruction, practice, pacing, and technology respond to each scholar’s needs and progress.
Explore Personalized Learning →The Way and the Light helps scholars develop self-awareness, form positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
Explore The Way and the Light →Learning centered on each scholar.
Through our Personalized Learning Approach, scholars spend some of the day engaged in self-paced digital learning through our personalized learning course and in small-group instruction in the classroom.
All curriculum includes online components through which scholars practice and review skills digitally using Chromebooks provided for home and school use.
Our Personalized Learning Approach places the scholar at the center of the experience, creating space for daily routines, independent learning activities, problem-based learning, and purposeful pacing.
Scholars engage in self-paced digital learning through ScholarMade’s personalized learning course.
Scholars also participate in small-group instruction in the classroom.
Online curriculum components allow scholars to practice and review skills digitally using Chromebooks provided for home and school use.
The approach creates space for daily routines, independent learning activities, problem-based learning, and purposeful pacing.
The Way and the Light
Emotional Intelligence woven into every interaction.
Our Emotional Intelligence framework, The Way and the Light, builds scholars’ capacity to apply consequential thinking and use strategies that foster positive relationships with peers and adults. This contributes to fewer disciplinary infractions and helps establish the foundation for a healthy school environment.
Emotional Intelligence is woven into how ScholarMade classrooms and schools function. Every interaction with and between scholars is an opportunity to demonstrate, model, practice, and nurture these skills.
The Way and the Light helps scholars understand others and form enduring, trusting relationships.
It also ensures that Scholar Voice and Teacher Voice are considered in decision-making, reinforcing that both matter and are valued.
Scholars and staff connect their daily choices to ScholarMade’s mission, vision, and shared sense of purpose.
Scholars build the capacity to think through choices and their possible impact.
The framework supports strategies that foster positive relationships with peers and adults.
Scholar Voice and Teacher Voice are considered in decision-making, reinforcing that both matter and are valued.
Every interaction is an opportunity to demonstrate, model, practice, and nurture Emotional Intelligence.
These are not steps or separate programs. They are four ways the framework is expressed throughout the school environment.
Art as a
Healing Practice
At ScholarMade, creative artistic practices promote healing, wellness, and personal growth.
Scholars are given space for their creativity to be cultivated, recognized, and honored.
Designed for learning. Built for life.
Personalized Learning, Emotional Intelligence, and creative expression come together to create a school experience designed around the whole scholar.
At ScholarMade, scholars are supported as learners, valued as individuals, and prepared to grow with confidence, purpose, and connection.