A comparative case study approach to examining how power is distributed and limited across different regime types, from consolidated democracies to totalitarian states.
A comprehensive 5-part curriculum exploring social neuroscience through a macro social work lens, focusing on systemic change, practitioner wellbeing, and collective action.
A 5-week immersive ethics storyline following the evolution of a single nonprofit organization as it navigates a massive corporate grant, data ethics, policy clashes, and eventual sustainability crises.
A comprehensive study of Judaism focusing on ethical teachings and significant practices like marriage. Students investigate the connections between core beliefs, sacred texts, and the lived experience of adherents in preparation for an extended response.
An intensive investigative unit on Franz Kafka's *The Metamorphosis* following the North Star/Uncommon Schools instructional model. The unit focuses on the thematic intersection of labor, identity, and dehumanization. Students analyze Gregor's alienation from his family and society through a structured rigorous framework including vocabulary acquisition, character identification, and thematic synthesis.
A 10-week comprehensive unit exploring the history of disasters from antiquity to the modern era, focusing on the shift from natural events to man-made catastrophes and changing human perspectives.
A focused AP World History practice series consisting exclusively of stimulus-based multiple choice questions and detailed answer keys covering Units 1-9.
A 12-lesson intensive course on reasoning and critical thinking, aligned with the 'Reasoning Skills Success' framework. This sequence covers everything from the distinction between reason and emotion to complex logical fallacies, statistical analysis, and deductive/inductive logic.
A comprehensive dive into the pivotal moments and global impact of World War II, framed through the lens of military intelligence and historical analysis.
A unit exploring the transformative decade of the 1950s, covering the Civil Rights movement, postwar economic booms, the rise of suburbia, and the cultural shifts of the Atomic Age.
A multi-day mini-unit exploring the contrasting philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois regarding African American progress, education, and civil rights at the turn of the 20th century.