Virtual Tour

We currently have the following openings for the 2021-2022 school year:

Infant Community (up to 3 years old)

Children's House (3-6 years old)

Spark Studio (K-1st Grade)

Discovery Studio (2nd - 5th Grade)

Agora Studio (Middle School)

Launch Pad (High School starting in August, 2022)

October 30, 2020

Thank you for your interest in our micro school program. We are honored you are here to learn more about us.

This post will walk you through our learning design, school culture and space, and give you an opportunity to meet our team.

We’ll also be asking questions at the end to get a better understanding of who you and your child are.

First, we invite you to watch this virtual tour video created by the founders of Acton Academy, Laura and Jeff Sandefer.

Our question of the year is: "How are chaos and control related?"

Please learn more about the Sandefers by visiting this website to read Laura’s bio and seeing Jeff in action by watching his TEDx video. You might be interested to listen to this podcast that Jeff did with Jesse McCarthy of MontessoriEducation.com or this interview that Jeff did with Peter Diamandis of the X-Prize.

Have you heard of Seth Godin? Here are his comments about Acton Academy.

Laura wrote this informative and helpful book about Acton Academy: Courage to Grow, which you can download to your kindle for only $0.99. We have a limited number of paper copies at the school to give away — please let us know if you would like one of those.

If you aren’t sure what 21st Century Learning is, we invite you to read this Forbes article explaining that.

There are quite a few differences between “modern” learning and traditional learning, with the key one being that the focus is on skill development rather than information regurgitation: process over content.

The content is viewed as the vehicle on the road to developing mastery in important skills like: critical thinking, resolving conflict, problem solving, and project management to name a few. Thankfully we are not relying on “curriculum development” as it happens in traditional schools where a committee of government-appointed people discuss how to change the curriculum.

It is not surprising that this method means that curriculum only changes over decades but we are in a fast-paced technologically driven society where things change much, much faster than that.

We are able to keep up with those changes!