About
Mission & Core Distinctives

Collaborative

Partnering with Your Family

Students are prepared for the rigors of adult life with our alternative schedule:
half homeschool, half traditional school.

What is meant by Collaborative Education?

The collaborative model of education is known by several names, including blended, university-style, and hybrid model. Collaborative education means that the student’s instructional time is divided between classroom and home. In collaborative education, classroom instruction occurs 2 or 3 days per week and is led by a professional educator. On non-class days, the student remains at home to complete his or her lesson plans under the guidance and instruction of his or her parent. The lesson plans for the entire week are developed by the classroom instructor and are made available to the parent at the start of the week, so that the parent and classroom instructor work in tandem to complete the requisite lessons.

Benefits for Parents & Students

Collaborative education is consistent with the biblical mandate for parents to retain the primary responsibility for the education and training of their children. The scientific community is beginning to recognize the importance of a sustained parent-child bond in the healthy development of the child—a bond which is prematurely eroded in a full-time school environment. Closely related to the parent-child bond, collaborative education also allows for vertical relationships among siblings to be maintained. Full-time school often results in each child developing friends exclusively within his or her own grade, resulting in a breakdown of natural friendships among siblings.

Collaborative education provides families with consistent access to educators with both disciplinary and classical credentials. With collaborative education, parents also remain the primary role-models for the child, and maintain primary responsibility for discipleship and character development. Regular non-class days provide flexibility for field trips, service-based learning, etc. Another major benefit is that classes are offered a la carte so that if a student has a proficiency in Math, for example, they are encouraged to enroll in higher level classes.

Practically speaking, what does it look like to commit to Providence?

Parents sign their agreement to the following statement:
From a Christian viewpoint, parents are their children’s lifetime teachers and are to be involved in the training of mind, body, and spirit. From a Classical methodology, education takes place not just in school but throughout the student’s everyday life as experiences are seen as educational opportunities. The parental support required by Providence Preparatory School will be high. Parents must be willing to commit time and effort to instruct, reinforce, supervise, and encourage their student’s learning, as well as maintain a home environment conducive to learning. Parents are seen as co-teachers in the educational experience and should expect to contribute to Providence Preparatory School in accordance with the requirements of each class.
Teachers and co-teachers must maintain clear and accurate communication, so Providence Preparatory School will strive to keep parents informed of any issues pertaining to their student’s progress. We desire that parents would keep the staff in full knowledge of any issues or concerns about the school. In our strongly Christian but diverse school, differences will exist, but it is our belief that we can be a community where grace allows for unity. With that mindset we expect that parents actively foster respect for fellow students and their families, as well as teachers and staff.
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Providence Preparatory is an accredited, private PK-12 school
partnering with families in Belton, Temple, Salado, Killeen, Harker Heights,

and the Greater Central Texas Area to provide their students a rich Christian and classical education.