A Renaissance in Education... The Arizona Renaissance Commonwealth School is a group of homeschooling families with scholar youth ages 12 to 18, who have decided to join together to create a New Commonwealth School in the Phoenix metro area.
A New Commonwealth School is a Community-Created Leadership Education Vehicle that provides weekly, supplemental classes where students are mentored by their peers' parents and have stewardship over what they learn through mentored projects (mentors are second witnesses to what the parents are teaching), with a liberal arts focus.
"True learning-- learning that is permanent and useful, that leads to intelligent action and further learning-- can arise only out of the experience, interest, and concerns of the learner." ~John Holt
Curricula: Students will be reading and discussing great works, writing down their ideas, and socializing and working with like-minded scholars. We promote and utilize *Thomas Jefferson Education principles in our classes. Parent mentors are trained by, and use materials created by, the Leadership Education Mentoring Institute (LEMI).
Tuition: Cost for the classes are $50 each student, each class, each semester with a $200 cap per family.
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." ~Sir Francis Bacon
Our Parent-Run Organization means that parents are the teachers, serve on the governing board, and participate in creating and voting on the governing laws, as well as making things like the Shakespeare play and Constitution Bowl a success through their volunteering efforts. This model of organization is not only cost-effective, it is also still very supportive of parents, homeschool, and each individual family's home culture. What is a *Thomas Jefferson Education? The *Thomas Jefferson Education (TJEd) principles are found in the book A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Centuryby Dr. Oliver Van DeMille, founder of George Wythe University, a liberal arts university. To learn more about TJEd, you can find a full introduction to its principles at "The Thomas Jefferson Education Consortium" found here: www.offtheconveyorbelt.com
