King’s Academy

History

Though we are a new school (opened in 2025), our philosophy of education stems back to Ancient Greek and indigenous cultures around the world who had methods for educating their people that "focused on the whole person instead of one or some segments of an individual's experience.(Source) "

The idea of holistic education is that a person cannot understand the world through unilateral and disconnected (bits and pieces of) information as is the case in traditional school settings, but rather as a "single whole... not separated from all of man's experiences".

Transformative

The tools, teaching methods, and role of the teacher take on a less instructional focus and are presented as more of a transformative approach to learning; the "teacher" guides the learner towards finding the answers him or herself rather than providing the student with rote information or the ineffective application of non-relevant knowledge.

Interconnected

Students make connections to themselves, their families and communities, and the "real world" through trans-disciplinary inquiry- the process of integrating core academic study across all disciplines (rather than independent of each other)- thus providing them with a sense of meaningfulness to their learner journey as "[children] learn better when what is being learned is important to them".​

The Three R’s

Rather than focusing on academic acquisition through the traditional "three R's" of standards-based education (reading, 'w'riting, and 'rithmetic), holistic education has, throughout the ages and cultural communities of the ancient world, focused on the three R's of "...relationships, responsibility, and reverence for all life".
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