THE NHHSA MISSION STATEMENT

NHHSA (New Horizons Home School & Academy) aims to empower those who wish to pursue homeschooling as an avenue to academic, intellectual, and personal achievement. We work to serve families who, disillusioned or unsatisfied with the options available to them under the current system, choose the home-based and family-centered alternative.

One of the primary advantages of home-based education or homeschooling is greater freedom for students and families to organize a study schedule around their own priorities. NHHSA operates on the principle that the decision of how to educate a child is best left to those most closely acquainted with that child’s individual abilities and needs: the parents or guardians.

For us, parents are the first authority. With the coordination of the family, NHHSA’s team of educators and curators assembles custom study programs made up of a carefully reviewed inventory of curricula, including standardized textbooks, online learning programs, and primary source readings. But in addition to the services we provide for our homeschooling members, NHHSA offers small classrooms with high educator-to-student ratios, where students can receive in-person instruction, participate in project-based activities and group discussions, conduct lab experiments, attend field trips, and more.

NHHSA offers flexibility. The premise is simple: find what works best for a student even if it requires a process of trial and error. Student achievement is our top priority.

We take students seriously. We understand that the young mind is not a blank slate that can be fashioned to suit particular designs but is pre-equipped with a stock of unique ideas and dispositions. That’s why we employ a learner-centered and self-paced approach to learning, in contradistinction to the one-size-fits-all, industrial model of mass governmental schooling which is now largely in use. We strive to put into real-world practice the ideal that one’s education should be as unique as one’s fingerprints. With this in mind, students are invited to be active participants in their own learning, rather than passive recipients of a preconceived curriculum. Wherever possible, curricula should be adjusted to meet the needs of the learner, not the other way around.

That’s what we set out to do, and it is what we accomplish every day on a student-by-student basis, because we recognize that every child matters, especially when that child is yours! Through our personalized approach, we aim to change the face of education across America.