Elite Open School
Middle School Program
Elite Open School — Middle School Focal Points
Foundations for High School
The sole academic mission of our middle school program is to set up students for the challenges, rigors, skills, and study disciplines that they will need the minute they enter high school. With the ever-present college prep focus within all of Elite Education, we believe that all difficulties should be exposed and developed in these years instead of going through mistakes and struggles in high school when transcript records are judged without mercy during the college application process.
STEM Emphasis for All
As a school-wide focus, science is one area where we would like students to have maximum exposure, not because we wish for everyone to enter STEM fields but that EOS believes that the widest possible knowledge base of science will do students well and better for everything they learn thereafter in high school and beyond. For that reason, we double up on science courses for our middle schoolers. EOS also offers UC-Approved Computer Science courses for the more advanced and interested students.
Algebra Readiness and Beyond
EOS has at the ready advanced math pathways to complete algebra or even geometry in the middle school years. This is growingly important because of the timetable of math in high school. More and more colleges would like to see AP Calculus completed by the time of college application, which requires the completion of Algebra 1 if not Geometry during the middle school years. Every effort in terms of support will be made to accelerate math, according to each student's level and ability.
Artificial Intelligence-Based Math and Science
As a part of Elite Education Group, EOS is focused on bringing the best of edu-tech to our students. As a part of our mission to leverage technology, all EOS students receive learning assistance, extra practice, targeted mini and micro lessons, reinforcement, and skill and content mastery confirmation through an AI-Augmented math and science digital supplement. With transparent progress monitoring, our staff of counselors and instructors use this as a review or preview tool to help our students in ways not possible years before. With our guidance, it is nearly mathematically impossible to not fully learn and understand math and science subjects or not get an A in the class. Not all AI tools are gimmicks, and we at EOS are committed to bringing those to bear on our students’ futures.
For Every Student, A Team
In line with the historic proven success of Elite Education Group, EOS embraces the model of assembling a close team of educators that partner with the family to march forward semester by semester, year by year, until the academic goals are achieved. The success of teamwork for every student is undeniable and the results are unforgettable. Here are some of the people that will be assembled for EACH student throughout his or her academic journey.
Master Course Instructors
Course Instructors at EOS are masters of their subject matter and are certified and trained to levels that exceed accreditation standards. EOS employs only teachers with certifications or graduate degrees in their subject fields. The faculty list of EOS is filled with MAs, PHDs, and even JDs and represent the top of the school rankings.
Academic Excellence Oversight Teams
Centralized in the EOS HQ, there are team members devoted to being another layer of tracking and oversight for student planning, performance, and progress towards set goals and grades. They act as the neural network that binds all assets together in concert for the fluid success of every semester for every student.
Head Academic Coaches
Integral to each student's success and the homeroom or unit cohesion of each student pod (or cohort) within grades, the primary mentor figure through a student’s academic year is the Academic Coach. While they themselves are graduates from top colleges, they are picked not only for their academic abilities but their interpersonal skills and small team leadership abilities to draw out the best in students and also focus on the motivation and the personal growth in the students. These mentoring figures, while in the academic setting, are the lynchpin and the pride of our learning model as a constellation of education assets contributes in specialized ways to every student every day.
Additional Subject Matter Specialists
As students advance in their coursework, especially at the higher high school levels, there will be a need for more efficient and effective academic attention, secondary mini-lectures, and individualized support for subjects such as Intro to Javascript, AP Calculus, AP Physics, etc. For these courses again, we draw upon the historic experience and certified instructor network of Elite Education Group and bring in those subject matter experts according to each student’s need and course. It is one of our core principles that both student and family should never wonder or doubt if there will be appropriate support that “really knows” and thus can help. This ultimate level of built-in support is what ensures that not only do our students master every course they take but also get As for an unparalleled transcript in the end.
Principal and Counselors
As the lead figures of the campus but also the nexus of every support and service available to the student, our principals and counselors have only one mission, and that is to support the successful education of every student, not just in the current step, but for the next step ahead. These educators are sworn professionals who will exert every resource and option available to make sure that no child achieves under their potential. They are the ones developing master plans with families and provide a level of attention that is simply impossible at traditional schools. Through them, the full educational force of Elite Education Group is at each family’s disposal.
Mentoring Team
As another measure of assistance, students will receive the support and attention of our Mentoring Team that is devoted to each individual student’s growth and academic potential. Their jobs are to constantly check on and check in with students daily, weekly, and monthly, all the while sending research, ideas, experiential opportunities to the counselors and coaches in executing the academic master plans.
Core Academic Experience
Master Planning
Our team of educators work with each individual student and parents to form a family’s master plan or multi-year action plan to achieve the desired high school goal, no matter what that may be. What courses to take next year? What to do during summers? Which extra classes or activities can or should the student take? What is the intended target high school? All stakeholders meet regularly every quarter to assess and update the action plan according to the realistic results. While a fluid process, it brings the most stability to the core of academics at EOS.
Progress Tracking
Critical to the success of learning performance at EOS is transparent, live, real progress that is visible to all stakeholders from students to mentors to counselors to parents. Students information is centralized into the custom built EOS Student Information System, which is also the hub for all of the digital course content. This information nexus is compiled and analyzed by multiple sets of teams, in layers of analysis and attention. Our system is also the safety net by which alerts can be broadcast to catch any trends or immediate needs for academic reinforcement.
Parent Updates
Through the wisdom learned from the operations of sister organization Elite Prep for over 30 years, EOS believes that the parent’s knowledge and update is tantamount to the success of the student and the reaching of goal standards. Therefore, much importance is placed on reporting and updates, both written, verbal, and in-person with parents who are the child’s greatest support outside of school time. Working with each family to set a custom modus operandi of communication, information will be relayed and analysis discussed and decisions made with parents in the customized ways and means they believe is best for them and their schedules. Parents, while different in their ideal modes and frequencies of communication, are all the same in terms of wanting to know what is going on so they can make better decisions on the home front.
Blended Learning Augmentation
The fully accredited EOS learning and teaching model, while based on the technology enhanced digital curriculum, relies heavily on a constellation of key players that fill different roles in a student’s educational journey from course teacher to college counselor. It is by far the most defining difference between EOS and other schools, traditional, hybrid, and especially online-only. The success of a student in terms of education goals can be guaranteed if you draw upon the specialized professionals of the proven Elite Education Group.
Efficiency of Learning
EOS, through years of experience, with the wisdom of Elite Prep’s over 30 years of history and results, has really boiled down the middle school education to its core, even with extra focus on the sciences so that students can be ready for any high school, even the top high schools in the world, and still save time to work on passions and experiences beyond the core academic curriculum. We believe this to be the middle school student’s right to have this time freed up for personal exploration and creative growth instead of being saddled with unending busy-work and then suddenly slammed in high school with deciding their future colleges and careers.
Holistic Grading System
Because of the importance EOS places on holistic development and thus holistic assessment and grading, we worked with our accreditations to pioneer the most fair and holistic grading system for every course that our students take at EOS. We believe that course curriculum and content and all the knowledge checks associated with those areas are important but there are subjective elements, growth points that can only be assessed or known by live human mentors and counselors and of course teachers. Therefore, within the EOS system, part of the course grade will come from the traditional metrics of grading, assignments, quizzes, tests, finals, and midterms. But another portion will come from the elements of discussion, effort, growth, and other subjective elements at the discretion of the teacher and academic team assigned for that student and class. This leads to fairer, and also more accurate grading which makes student motivation and performance much easier to raise and maintain at high levels.
High School Transition
So important is the planned transition to high school for EOS middle school students that at every step, especially with course progression planning and monitoring of skills development, a students trajectory is always analyzed against predictive high school performance and projected course tracks. This is the topic of discussion at every meeting with families and if students show passion and improve markedly in areas such as math, then they can be motivated by the upside potentials when they enter high school.