The Academy

Mother course — the full scholarly treatment. Environmental archaeology, domestication, early state formation. Written for teachers: subject mastery, teaching moves, and Praxis preparation.

Mother course — the full scholarly treatment. Comparative empire, exchange systems, collapse literature. Written for teachers: subject mastery, teaching moves, and Praxis preparation.

Mother course — the full scholarly treatment. Pre-Columbian archaeology, agricultural systems, decipherment. Written for teachers: subject mastery, teaching moves, and Praxis preparation.

Mother course — the full scholarly treatment. Climate history, epidemiology, agrarian and commercial revolutions. Written for teachers: subject mastery, teaching moves, and Praxis preparation.

Mother course — the full scholarly treatment. Columbian exchange scholarship, Atlantic systems, global silver. Written for teachers: subject mastery, teaching moves, and Praxis preparation.

Mother course — the full scholarly treatment. Industrialisation, urbanisation, energy transitions, the anthropocene. Written for teachers: subject mastery, teaching moves, and Praxis preparation.

The first bargains with the land: fire, seed, water, herds and bronze, and the institutions that storage invented. Third graders open the drawer, handle the objects, read simple sources, and learn to state a claim and take the other side.

Cities, empires and roads across Eurasia, and the environments that fed them, moved them, and undid them. Fourth graders follow grain, rivers, the Silk Corridor and the monsoon, and learn to weigh geography against the choices of rulers.

A hemisphere on its own terms: maize, terrace, causeway and calendar, not a prelude to anyone else. Fifth graders study milpa farming, Tenochtitlan in its lake, the Maya cities and the sky-watchers, and learn to argue from objects and sources.

Plough, plague, monsoon and caravan: a world remade by climate, disease and the routes between. Sixth graders weigh the heavy plough, the Black Death, Champa rice and the Little Ice Age, and learn to decide which cause mattered most.

Oceans joined, species exchanged, labor coerced: the first truly planetary environment. Seventh graders trace sugar islands, the silver mountain, trade winds, the fur trade and the first global cities, and learn to weigh nature against human choice.

The century that made the modern world: the factory, the railway, the clock and the city that went up. Eighth graders study walking cities, coal, skylines, air conditioning and today's data centers, and learn to explain why settlements take the shape they do.

The Great War and what it broke: empires, economies, the old map. One world history block, six years wide, read from every side of the trench.

The world side of the blend with AM5: Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, decolonisation — the same years told from London, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Accra and Hanoi.

The continent was worked land before it was colonised, and the colonies were investments before they were societies. Where the line between servant and slave hardened, and why.

A revolution argued in print and paid for in credit. Who it was for, who it left out, and how a survey grid turned a war aim into property.

Cotton made slavery a growth industry, rail decided where cities appeared, and the argument over both was settled by war and then unsettled again.

The vertical push: land value, the elevator and the steel frame lift the central business district while the tenement fills in below it.

A crash, a federal map that drew the color line, a war economy, a suburb built on subsidy. Tenth graders work from objects and sources through the Depression, the Great Migration, the bomb and the movement in the street, and learn to weigh federal policy against choice.

America from the factory closing to now — wars, culture, socio-economic movements at giant, multinational scale; the weight on January 2001 to 2020 so students understand the immediate past they were born into.

The first peoples of North America, the thirteen colonies and the Revolution, told through objects, maps and the people who lived it, for young readers.

Why cities exist, why they grow, and why they fail. Students in grades 10-12 test agglomeration, bid-rent and rank-size ideas against real maps, and leave able to argue the big questions of the built world from evidence.

The skyscraper from iron frame to supertall. Students in grades 10-12 read skylines as data, work the elevator arithmetic and the economics of height, and come out able to explain why a city builds up and who pays for it.

From Uruk's first crossroads to the planetary megacity, the whole urban story in one course. Students in grades 10-12 trace the bargain each city struck for food, water and order, and learn to say when and why that bargain breaks.

How societies organize work, wealth and status. From Smith's pin factory to the Gini walk and the mobility audit, students in grades 10-12 learn the foundational vocabulary of social science and use it to argue who gets ahead, and why.

Scarcity, trade, price and choice: economics as a way of seeing, not a set of graphs. Students in grades 10-12 run cafeteria, price-control and trading experiments and come out able to reason about cost, price and fair exchange.

The economist's toolkit applied to history and society. Students in grades 10-12 hunt perverse incentives, compare institutions across a single border, and audit natural experiments until they can judge a cause-and-effect claim.

Manor, market, plague and guild: how the medieval world worked for the people inside it. Students in grades 10-12 audit manorial accounts and guild rules, chart wages before and after the Black Death, and argue when a bargain becomes domination.

Work from the mill floor to the fulfillment center. Students in grades 10-12 chart hours and wages, audit Homestead and the factory acts, and compare warehouses, so they can explain what sets the terms of the bargain between labor and capital.

The human-environment bargain at full scale, where geography meets consequence. Students in grades 10-12 audit the Dust Bowl, the energy transitions and two coastlines, and come out able to argue who pays first when the environmental bill comes due.

What societies do when work stops. Students in grades 10-12 trace the eight-hour day, the seaside train, the paid holiday and prime time, and treat leisure, travel and play as serious social history about who gets free time and who pays for it.

The light bulb's ancestors, the S-curve and Schumpeter's gale. Students in grades 10-12 dissect inventions, map how they spread or stall, and name who lost in each transition, so they can judge when creative destruction is worth its price.

The bread riot, the J-curve and the year-one blank page. Students in grades 10-12 compare the American, French and Haitian revolutions, audit who gained, and come out able to explain why revolts break out when they do and what decides their aftermath.

From the village match to the media-rights deal. Students in grades 10-12 trace how folk games became codified sport, audit stadium subsidies and salary caps, and learn to read a game as a story about cities, money, labor and belonging.

Why buildings rise here and not there. Students in grades 10-12 follow the race from Chicago to New York to Dubai, walk the land-price gradient and the zoning envelope, and test real CBD data to explain where towers cluster and why.

Why people move, how they cross, and what the second generation keeps. Students in grades 10-12 price push and pull, audit tickets, papers and quotas, and compare migrations until they can tell the story of a diaspora from its evidence.

How maps, covenants and appraisals drew race into the city, and what can undraw it. Students in grades 10-12 read the archive, trace how sorting reproduces itself through schools and lending, and weigh which reforms actually work.

Why obey, what liberty requires, and what justice demands. Students in grades 10-12 read Hobbes, Locke, Berlin, Rawls and Nozick against real cases and learn to build and defend an argument about the reasons for rule.

Why some nations grew rich and others did not. Students in grades 10-12 weigh geography against institutions, audit the development recipes from five-year plans to the Washington consensus, and judge what randomized trials can and cannot tell.

How government actually works, from Weber's bureau to the clerk at the counter. Students in grades 10-12 read budgets, audit procurement and caseloads, and learn why discretion shapes policy and why most reforms are absorbed by the system they try to change.

This year's headlines, mapped. Students in grades 10-12 plot datelines, study straits, chokepoints and drawn borders, and practice reading every news story spatially, so they can explain why some places become hotspots again and again.

Where am I, and what makes a place? Students in grades 10-12 work the five themes, peel the orange to see what every projection trades away, and draw and defend regional boundaries, coming out with the habits of a geographer.

People on the land: population pyramids, cultural landscapes and the networks that shrink some distances and stretch others. Students in grades 10-12 read barns, roads and cable maps as evidence and learn to project what a population will need next.

The restless Earth, its water and air, and the thin living surface. Students in grades 10-12 work plates, fronts, currents, biomes and soils with hazard maps and climate graphs, and come out able to explain why the land and weather are as they are.

Layers, joins and spatial analysis: the working craft of GIS. Students in grades 10-12 build attribute tables, debug joins, run buffers, overlays and hotspot tests, and learn to tell a real spatial pattern from a convincing error.

1492 and after: the encounter, the exchange and the reckoning. Students in grades 10-12 read accounts from both sides of the beach, follow the potato, the horse and the microbe, and weigh the wealth of the Columbian world against what it cost.

Where does the city end? Students in grades 10-12 compare census definitions, test what density does to social life, and map the suburbs, exurbs and edge cities of the blur, so they can argue where to draw the line and why it matters.

Why there? From the mill by the falls to the container port, students in grades 10-12 work Weber's triangle, Marshall's clusters and the trade corridors, and come out able to explain where economic activity locates and why it moves.

The map in the browser, the live service, and the app you ship. Students in grades 10-12 audit tiles and feeds, query live services, and design, test and publish their own web map on estate data for real users.

The language, the honesty and the beauty of maps. Students in grades 10-12 redesign weak maps, make one dataset tell two stories, and study the masters, until they can design a map that is clear, truthful and worth hanging on the wall.

What social theory is for. Students in grades 10-12 learn what a theory forbids, map the schools against the four great questions of order, change, inequality and meaning, and put theories on trial against data.

Smith, Marx, Weber and Durkheim, read in their own words. Students in grades 10-12 take apart the invisible hand, surplus value, the Protestant ledger and the social fact, and come out able to apply and fairly criticize each founder.

Social theory at work today: behavioral economics, institutions and development, and the data revolution. Students in grades 10-12 retry famous findings, test instruments and night-light data, and learn which new evidence deserves trust.

The first half of the advanced seminar. Students in grades 10-12 sharpen a researchable question, map the scholarly literature around it, and draft, defend and revise a clear argument with ordered evidence and the counterclaim faced.

The second half of the advanced seminar. Students in grades 10-12 design a study, run and stress-test the analysis, own unexpected results, and defend the finished capstone before a panel, then revise.

How research is done. Students in grades 10-12 classify questions, set the causal bar, build valid and reliable measures, and go into the field to interview and observe ethically, coming out able to plan a sound study of their own.

The ladder's last rung. Students in grades 10-12 choose a city and a question, interrogate a skyline with CBD metrics to ask what drives the vertical push, and build and present a capstone argument from their own city's evidence.

Four centuries of the American economy as history: who worked, who owned, who paid, and how the answer changed - from wampum to the dot-com boom. A history/economics elective.

Where things are and how we write it down: coordinates, projections, raster and vector, geodatabases, data quality and the first spatial question. Ported from Intro GIS; the on-ramp to E24.

Mapping the city: land use and zoning, access and density, footprints, the 3D skyline and how the city grows — on the estate's research data. Ported from Urban GIS & Analysis.

AP U.S. History — existing cards tightened for rigor, extended in Norman Davies style; assignments of 4-5 essay stems (AP SAQ/LEQ format, updated for May 2027). AP Central: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-united-states-history

AP European History — existing cards tightened for rigor, extended in Norman Davies style; assignments of 4-5 essay stems (AP SAQ/LEQ format, updated for May 2027). AP Central: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-european-history

AP Human Geography — existing cards tightened for rigor, extended in Norman Davies style; assignments of 4-5 essay stems (AP SAQ/LEQ format, updated for May 2027). AP Central: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-human-geography

AP World History — existing cards tightened for rigor, extended in Norman Davies style; assignments of 4-5 essay stems (AP SAQ/LEQ format, updated for May 2027). AP Central: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-world-history

How American government is built and how it works: the founding documents and the constitutional design, Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy and the courts, civil liberties and civil rights, public opinion, parties and elections, taught from the nine required documents and the required Supreme Court cases.

Every one of these was a confident, well-resourced, professionally executed prediction about what people would do. Every one was wrong. The wing asks why, and what the error teaches that a success could not.

A census, a survey, an index, a map, a poverty line. Each is a tool that appears to describe society and in fact helps constitute it. The wing takes the instruments apart.

Sometimes the world runs an experiment nobody designed. Sometimes researchers run one they should not have. The wing is about what counts as evidence when you cannot rerun the world.

Number is a place before it is a quantity. This course walks the wall of ST09 — counting, the fraction wall, the decimal slide, the ratio table, the negative floor, graph-paper country — and every rung is a drawer a child can open with their hands.

The most original idea in the K-6 dictation, built as a course: a child who records the same measurement daily is doing statistics before the word arrives. A column of your own numbers becomes a middle and a spread.

Measurement produces number; number produces comparison; a map is an argument made of both. Runs from the ruler and the balance to the scale bar, the choropleth and the lie every flat sheet tells about a round world.

Where a claim must be shown, not asserted. Angle, argument and area, taught as the demand for a reason. The room is named for what it requires: prove it or drop it.

Geometry, drawn before it is argued. Point and line taken on faith, everything after earned: congruence, similarity, the right triangle, the circle, area, and the stone yard's solids — each claim walked to the Proof Room and made to show its work.

Algebra begins at a pan balance: whatever you do to one side, do to the other. From the balance to the function machine, the slope ramp, the crossroads of two lines, the scatter field, the growth hall and the parabola arch — each hall ends where its rule breaks.

Exploring data, designing studies, probability and inference: distributions, regression, sampling, confidence intervals and tests, worked in Python and SQL on real data including the estate's buildings table.

Variables, expressions and equations; linear functions, slope and systems; exponents, quadratics and exponential growth, worked on real data from the estate's cities and buildings.

Proof, congruence and similarity; right triangles and trigonometry; area, volume and coordinate geometry — the mathematics of surveying, drafting and the tower.

Polynomials and complex numbers; rational, radical, exponential and logarithmic functions; sequences, series and modeling with data.

Functions and their transformations, trigonometric functions and identities, vectors, polar coordinates, parametric equations and an introduction to limits.

Limits and continuity, the derivative and its applications, and the integral and the Fundamental Theorem, with rates of change taken from real motion, growth and city data.

Grade 3 core math. Students multiply and divide within 100, meet fractions as numbers on a line, measure area, tell time to the minute and solve two-step word problems, and come out fluent with the facts that every later grade stands on.

Grade 4 core math. Students work multi-digit multiplication and long division, build equivalent fractions, add like fractions, read decimals, measure angles and convert units, and learn to check every answer by estimating first.

Grade 5 core math. Students add and multiply fractions, work all four operations with decimals, read the coordinate plane, find volume and write expressions, and finish ready for ratios and the negative numbers of middle school.

Grade 6 core math. Students reason with ratios, rates and percents, divide fractions, meet negative numbers and absolute value, write and solve one-step equations, and describe data with center and spread.

Grade 7 pre-algebra. Students compute with all rational numbers, solve proportional problems and percent change, write and solve two-step equations and inequalities, work scale drawings and probability, and arrive ready for Algebra I.

Ten minutes a day to fast, sure math facts: addition and subtraction to 20, then multiplication and division within 100, built on strategies before speed, with short timed sprints a child can watch improve week by week.

A booster for the youngest mathematicians. Children learn that the equals sign means "the same as," balance pans of cubes, find what is hiding under the cup, and extend patterns that repeat and grow. The habits of algebra, built with hands before symbols.

A booster for grades 3–4. Students test whether number sentences are true without computing them, discover rules that hold for every number, run function machines and in-out tables, and write their first rules with a letter. Algebraic thinking threaded through everyday arithmetic.

A booster for grades 5–6. Letters stand for numbers, bar models turn word problems into equations, balance moves solve them, and growing patterns become rules and points on a grid. Students arrive at Pre-Algebra 7 already thinking like algebra students.

Functions as models of real change: polynomial and rational, exponential and logarithmic, trigonometric and polar functions, each fitted to data and argued from its graph, table and formula, with or without a calculator.

A booster for the youngest mathematicians. Children race toy cars to see what "faster" means, watch piles and towers grow a little at a time, and play with getting closer and closer. The two big ideas of calculus, change and adding up, met through play.

All of Calculus AB and the rest of a second college semester: integration techniques, differential equations, parametric, polar and vector-valued functions, and infinite series, with rates of change taken from real motion and growth.

A booster for grades 3–4. Students measure how fast things change, from a growing bean plant to a filling tub, estimate areas by adding up small squares, and meet Zeno's paradox of halfway forever. The ideas behind calculus, with rulers, grid paper and timers.

A booster for grades 5–6. Students read rates from tables and graphs, find distance as the area under a speed graph, add halves that never quite reach one, and trap pi between polygons as Archimedes did. Limits and accumulation, made visible.

The bridge from middle school to Precalculus. Slope becomes a rate of change, secant lines close in on a tangent, rectangles add up to areas under curves, and infinite series reach finite sums. Students meet the calculus story of Archimedes, Newton, Leibniz and Agnesi before the formal course.

Politics begins where two neighbours share one well. The town meeting, the fence line, the petition - self-rule at the smallest scale.

The franchise as a moving line: who holds the ballot, who is kept from it, and what each extension cost. Eighth graders study property tests, the secret ballot, ward machines, suffrage marches, poll taxes, recounts and gerrymanders, and learn to defend a claim about who votes.

Monarchy, republic, federation, one-party state: the same problems of order solved in different architectures. Ninth graders compare crowns, parliaments, constitutions and referendums, and learn to judge how each design divides and limits power.

The Supreme Court as the argument that never ends: nine readers deciding what two centuries of words permit. Tenth graders read Marbury, Plessy, Brown, the Warren Court and the great dissents, and learn to argue how the Court's reading of the law changes.

Power at street level: zoning maps, the boss's ledger, bond issues, police powers, annexation fights and the renewal bulldozer. Eleventh graders study how the growing city was run and argue who decided who would live where.

States among states: treaties, embassies, blockades, alliances and trade wars, and the thin institutions that stand between rivalry and war. Eleventh graders weigh sovereignty against law and learn to judge when diplomacy keeps the peace.

How the institutions students inherit were built and bent across a century — the presidency, the court, the vote, the press, the international bodies, the trade rules — ending inside the years they were born in.

A school is counted before it is taught: who has an IEP, who has a 504 plan, who lives below the line — and every count decides money, rooms and rights.

From the first light to the first rock: thresholds of complexity before there was anywhere to stand. Seventh graders handle evidence for the Big Bang, the forging of atoms in stars, and the dating of rocks, and learn how science reads a past no one saw.

Life takes the planet: oxygen, extinction, drift and the long wager that produced the mammals. Eighth graders read rocks, fossils and moving continents as evidence and learn to argue why some forms of life ended and others carried on.

Collective learning arrives: fire, language, art and the long migration that peopled the planet. Ninth graders weigh the evidence of hearths, cave paintings and ice-age routes and argue what made humans the species that keeps what it learns.

Agriculture's bargain: surplus, cities, writing, plague, with density paid for in freedom and health. Tenth graders work from seeds, ledgers, tablets and trade routes to judge what farming gave people and what it took from them.

Oceans become bridges: the Columbian exchange, Potosi silver, the energy bonanza and the machine threshold. Eleventh graders trace how crops, coal, steam and telegraph wires tied the world together and argue who gained from the connection.

The Great Acceleration: carbon, information, genome, and humanity as a planetary force. Twelfth graders test the evidence for change since 1950, weigh the Anthropocene case, and come out able to argue how people should choose the next threshold.

What things are made of and what they do to each other. The element as a physical object you can hold, the reaction as an event you watch happen, and distillation as the oldest argument that a mixture is not a substance.

The three invisibles. A magnet acting at a distance, a machine multiplying a push, and light behaving like nothing else in the building — each taught by what it does rather than what it is called.

The living world for the youngest: a yard of animals to watch, a pond where the young do not look like the old, and a nest full of parts with jobs. Pointing, sorting, counting and drawing come before any word to learn.

Life at four magnifications: the cell under the bench lens, the habitat behind glass, the body opened as an instrument, and the bird that flies to the rail and will not hold still for anyone.

The two sciences you cannot bring indoors. Rock, weather and sky are read from evidence left behind rather than experiments run to order, which makes them the best training in inference the building has.

Every science begins with an instrument, and every instrument is an argument about what is worth measuring. The ruler, the vault of historic instruments, the supervision bench and the room of objects too large to ignore.

The Code Shop, the Workbench and the Wire. A program is an instruction a machine cannot misunderstand, which is a far harder thing to write than a sentence a person can. Students build with variables, loops and functions, debug like detectives, and follow a message as bits across the internet.

The chemistry of life, cells and their energy, signalling and heredity, gene expression, natural selection and ecology, taught from specimens, instruments and real data.

Cells, genetics and evolution, and ecosystems: a lab biology course done at home with a kit and a microscope, with live simulations and lab videos.

Atomic structure, bonding and properties, reactions and kinetics, thermodynamics, equilibrium, acids and bases, and electrochemistry, worked from the bench and the data table.

Atoms and the periodic table, bonding and reactions, stoichiometry, solutions, acids and bases: a lab chemistry course done at home with a safe kit, live simulations and lab videos.

Algebra-based mechanics: kinematics, forces, energy, momentum, rotation, oscillation and fluids, measured with phones, carts and the estate's own machines.

Motion and forces, energy and momentum, waves, electricity and magnetism: a lab physics course with phone sensors, a kit, live simulations and lab videos.

Ecosystems, populations, Earth systems, land, water and energy use, pollution and global change, argued from field measurements and public data sets.

The body plan, tissues and the organ systems working together, and how health and disease are studied, from Vesalius to modern public health.

Grade 8 physical science on the NGSS middle-school band: atoms and chemical change, forces and motion, and energy and waves. Household investigations in SI units, graphed data, and claim-evidence-reasoning prepare students for chemistry and physics.

Reading, telling, and writing for the fourth grade, taught close to the museum wall: notice first, say it plainly, then write it so a friend can see it too.

The school's first English course reads two things that fit together: Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (in the 1873 George Makepeace Towle translation, public domain) with the wonders wall as its map, and the Sherlock Holmes stories as a course in inference from detail. Hall one follows the wager leg by leg and ends on the day that wasn't; hall two teaches what a sentence lets you conclude — and what it does not. Hall three, Tales Around the World, climbs the Beanstalk: Puss in Boots and the trickster, Alice and the logic of nonsense, Oz as the American fairy tale (and the money reading, weighed as a debate), and Cinderella across the world as tale type 510A, each read with its first illustrator.

Composition taught where the material lives: every week the writer takes a different hall and works one move on it — noticing, describing, claiming, defending, revising — until the essay stands. The museum is the text; the docents are the sources.

Speaking, writing and reading the media: a speech that persuades, writing for a real audience, and the news and persuasion that reach us every day.

The American story in its own words: Bradford and Franklin, Douglass, Dickinson and Whitman, Twain, the Harlem Renaissance, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and the voices after 1945.

From Beowulf and Chaucer through Shakespeare, Milton and the Romantics to Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, Orwell and the modern novel.

Rhetoric in practice: the rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, and style, through speeches, essays and arguments; prepares for the AP exam's synthesis, analysis and argument essays.

Close reading of poetry, short fiction, drama and the novel: character, setting, structure, narration and figurative language; prepares for the AP exam's poetry, prose and literary argument essays.

Letters and sounds, phonics and first books, and writing sentences and stories: read-aloud lessons done at home with a grown-up, with picture books from the public domain.

Grade 3 core reading and writing. Students read stories and true books closely, find the main idea and the details that prove it, learn new words from context, and write paragraphs, opinions and short reports of their own.

Grade 4 core reading and writing. Students summarize, compare points of view, read myths and informational texts side by side, and write organized opinion, information and story pieces with evidence from what they read.

Grade 5 core reading and writing. Students quote accurately from a text, compare two authors on one subject, read figurative language, and write evidence-based essays and researched reports with a clear structure.

Grade 6 core reading and writing. Students cite textual evidence, trace a theme and an argument across a whole text, judge claims and reasons, and write arguments, explanations and narratives that hold up to a reader's questions.

Grade 7 core reading and writing. Students analyze how a story's elements interact, compare a text with its film or staged version, evaluate an author's evidence, and write arguments that acknowledge and answer the other side.

Grade 8 core reading and writing. Students read classic and modern literature and serious nonfiction, analyze word choice and structure, spot conflicting evidence, and write the argument and research essays high school expects.

Grammar, mechanics and usage, grades 3-8, taught as tools a writer chooses: sentences and their parts, punctuation that changes meaning, verb tense, pronouns, spelling patterns and the editing eye that catches errors before a reader does.

Ten minutes a day of reading aloud with accuracy, pace and expression: phrase-cued passages, repeated readings, poems and readers' theater, so decoding becomes automatic and the mind is free to understand.

Where each student starts and how far they have come: a fall placement check, a winter check-in and a spring benchmark in reading, math and language usage, each turned into a plain report for the family and the teacher.

English 9 carries the reading-and-writing sequence into high school. Three halls take up story and the self, argument and evidence, and poetry and drama. Each hall opens on a manuscript, an archive, or a stage, and closes on a job.

Twelve lectures and twelve seminars on how societies organize work, wealth, and ground - ending where the founder always ends: at the base of a tall building, asking why it stands THERE.

Me and my family, my neighborhood and its helpers, maps of my street and town, and long ago and today: social studies at home with a grown-up and a walk around the block.

A story told three times is not three pieces of evidence. Students weigh a claim, sort retelling from proof, and say what they would need to find before they believe it.

How people came to know the sky, matter, light, air, life and the atom — and how science learned to catch its own mistakes. Each hall walks a gallery of the Museum of Revolutions and the science rooms of the Museum of Museums, and ends on a bridge to the social studies course that shares its century.

From the first fire to the tool that makes tools. Each hall stands in a gallery of the Museum of Revolutions — the Jefferson Room, the Da Vinci Room, the industrial, vertical, rocket, digital and internet revolutions — with objects from the Museum of Museums, and ends on a bridge to the social studies course that shares its century.

Python from the first print statement to a tested, object-built program that reads the estate's own data. Ported from the Urbanicity Academy courses Python Basics and Python Advanced.

HTML, CSS and JavaScript up to a full stack: the page, the script that moves it, and the server behind it. Ported from Javascript and Web Development Full Stack.

Tables, keys and queries: relational design, SQL, PostgreSQL and PostGIS, taught on the estate's own cities and buildings data. Ported from PostGRES and Database Design & SQL.

How data is held and how long it takes to find it: lists, stacks, trees, graphs, sorting, searching and Big-O. Ported from Data Structures & Algorithms.

How a machine learns from examples: vectors, models, networks and the judgment of whether they work and whom they serve. Ported from Machine Learning Foundations; ends on responsible SI and hands off to the SI course.

Code a web map from a blank file: Leaflet, GeoJSON, vector tiles, map services and a tile server of your own. Ported from WebGIS; the coding companion to E28.

How an SI system works, how to build a bot that uses one safely, and what changes when machines write code. The course picks up from the History of Technology's last hall and ends with a classroom helper bot built, tested and defended.

How computing works and what it changes: data, algorithms and programming, the internet and its protocols, and computing's effects on people, ending in the Create performance task, a program of the student's own design.

Object-oriented programming in Java: classes and objects, conditionals and loops, arrays, ArrayLists and 2D arrays, inheritance and recursion, written, traced and tested the way the AP free-response questions demand.

How a machine sorts, matches and guesses from examples: unplugged sorting games, a picture-sorter you teach yourself, and when a machine's guess is wrong. Ends on asking a grown-up before trusting a bot.

How to ask an SI system a good question, check its answer against a source, spot bias and made-up facts, and use it without handing over private data. Ends with a checked research report and a class rulebook for SI.

For teachers and parents: what SI systems can and cannot do, how to plan lessons and feedback with them, how to keep student data private, and how to judge students' SI-assisted work fairly.

What a business is, who it serves and how it plans: owners and forms of business, customers and competition, and a one-page plan of the student's own.

The language of money in a business: the ledger and the three statements, budgets, break-even and pricing, credit, interest, investors and risk.

How a business finds and keeps customers: market research, brands and the craft and ethics of the advertisement, taught from a century of real ads.

From an idea to a launch: testing the idea, building the first version and pitching a business plan that is defended like a thesis.

The arithmetic of work and money: percent, markup and margin, payroll and taxes, simple and compound interest, loans, budgets, break-even and spreadsheets for a small business.

Follow business in society from the Dutch East India Company to today. Read ledgers, share certificates, price tags and strike records, weigh each firm's case beside the people it touched, then charter, price and pitch your own company.

How minds work and how we know: brain and senses, learning, memory and development, the social mind and mental health, taught as a science with its experiments.

The science of behavior and mental processes in the five units of the revised course: biological bases of behavior, cognition, development and learning, social psychology and personality, and mental and physical health, taught through the classic and current studies and the article-analysis and evidence-based writing the exam asks for.

Pushes and pulls, strong shapes, and the engineer's loop of ask, imagine, plan, build and make it better, with ramps, paper bridges and cardboard.

State the problem with criteria and constraints, test ideas with models, and pick the best design with a fair test. Grades 3-5 build marble runs, paper bridges and gliders, graph their trials, and finish by showing their work at a design fair.

Write a precise brief, judge competing prototypes with a decision matrix, and improve a design through rounds of testing: water filters, balsa bridges and egg drops.

Break a large problem into solvable parts, weigh trade-offs with CAD and simulation, and carry a capstone design through build, test and public defense.

Ohm's law on a breadboard, the handful of components that build almost every circuit, and the DC, servo and stepper motors that make things move.

A Linux computer with pins: Python on the GPIO, sensors that turn the world into numbers, and a working device that senses, decides, acts and logs.

Chassis and gearing, the sense-think-act loop with feedback control, and an autonomous robot built to a spec and defended.

From Chinese fire arrows to reusable boosters; thrust, impulse and stability; and model rockets designed in OpenRocket, launched under the NAR Model Rocket Safety Code, and measured.

How things get made and moved: process flow, queues and bottlenecks, quality and lean, inventory and logistics, and the supply chains behind a building or a phone.

After William H. McNeill: walls, moats and siege engines; the bow, the crossbow and gunpowder; and the drilled, financed, industrial armies that followed. Weapons as a history of states, money and work.

The trench as a weapons failure, chlorine and mustard gas, and the tank as the way out; air power from the Wright brothers to the B-52 and stealth; sea power from Mahan and the Dreadnought to the submarine and the carrier.

Small arms and small wars, from the Thompson and the M1 to the Kalashnikov and the tunnels of Vietnam, with napalm and Agent Orange; the bomb, the missile and the hidden submarine; and the rules nations wrote to limit war.

A college-intro capstone seminar on how states try to limit war: Clausewitz, deterrence theory, treaties read as primary sources, verification, and new questions on drones, autonomous weapons, cyber, and space. Builds on WS1-WS3.

Study 5,000 years of weapons and armor through museum objects: how they shaped states, economies and daily life, and how societies tried to limit them. Weigh evidence, debate both sides and curate your own exhibit. Grades 9-12.

Philosophy for children: what makes something fair, how we know what is true, and how to be a good friend and neighbor, argued out loud with reasons.

What can we know, what is a mind and a self, and how should people live together: Socrates and Confucius to Descartes, Hume, Locke, Mill and Rawls.

Three ways to judge right and wrong, then the hard cases: science and engineering ethics from Tuskegee to CRISPR and SI, and civic, business and war ethics.

Learn logic as a working tool: test arguments for validity and soundness, use syllogisms and truth tables, spot fallacies in speeches and ads, reason about evidence with Hume and Bayes, then build and rebut arguments.

Look closely, make boldly: line, shape and color; artists from around the world; and making and sharing art at home, with a small kit of crayons, markers and paint.

From the painted caves to empires in stone and the art of faith and the book: what people made, why, and what it tells us.

The new eye of the Renaissance, the revolutions in seeing that photography and Japanese prints set off, and modern and global art to today.

Drawing, color and paint, printmaking and collage at the kitchen table, ending in a portfolio shown in the online gallery. Each student buys a small studio kit.

Two hundred and fifty works across global art history, from prehistoric caves to contemporary installations: how to read form, function, content and context, and how to argue a work's meaning from what is in front of you.

Learn how buildings stand and speak, from beam and section to skyscraper and street. Draw in plan, section and perspective, study Chicago to Dubai, Haussmann, Olmsted and Jacobs, then model your own building for a real site.

Upper school studio arts organized like a museum: each hall begins before real works and ends at your own bench. Draw, print, build and photograph with water-based media, then critique and hang a class show.

From the Greek chorus to Shakespeare's Globe, Ibsen, Chekhov and the American stage: reading plays, acting, directing and design, ending in a scene performed live online.

How music works and where it came from: rhythm, pitch, harmony and form; the story from chant to Bach, Beethoven, the blues, jazz and rock; and composing a short piece of your own.

How music is built and heard: notation, scales, keys, intervals and chords, four-part harmony, cadences and form, plus sight-singing and melodic and harmonic dictation, building on Music: Listen, Read, Make.

How society shapes people and people shape society: Durkheim, Weber, Du Bois and Addams; groups, institutions, class, race, gender and the city; and a small survey study of the student's own.

The whole economy: GDP, unemployment and inflation, aggregate demand and supply, money and banking, fiscal and monetary policy, and trade, worked with real BEA, BLS and FRED data.

Choices, prices and markets: supply and demand, elasticity, costs and the firm, market structures, labor and land markets, and market failure, with the city as the case.

Greetings, people and places, daily life and the city: speaking, listening, reading and writing in Spanish, with live conversation sessions and the Spanish-speaking world's cities.

Past and future tenses, stories and news, work and travel: longer conversations, reading authentic texts and writing about the student's own life and city.

Intermediate-high Spanish built on the six AP themes: the present and imperfect subjunctive, compound tenses and si-clauses, authentic-style readings, Martí, Bécquer and Darío, and the email, essay and cultural comparison that open the way to AP Spanish.

Pinyin and the four tones, greetings and family, numbers, time and food, with first characters and short conversations. Students in grades 6-12 recite Li Bai, present a family album, and order a meal in Mandarin by the end of the course.

Characters and radicals, daily life and school, and cities and travel across China, reading and speaking in longer exchanges.

Nouns and cases, verbs and Roman daily life, and reading adapted Latin, with the Latin roots inside English and science.

Participles and clauses, Roman history read in Latin, and Latin at work in English, law and science. Students in grades 7-12 read Caesar, Livy's heroes and Augustus in his own words, and come out able to read longer Latin and find it in their own town.

Real Latin authors at an intermediate level: Caesar and Cicero in prose, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Catullus in verse, and Pliny's letters, with the uses of the subjunctive, indirect statement, participles and the ablative absolute, and scansion of dactylic hexameter, building toward AP Latin.

Spanish at the college level, spoken and written: interpersonal and presentational communication, authentic articles, audio and charts from the Spanish-speaking world, and the six AP themes, building on Spanish I and II.

Vergil and Pliny in the original Latin, with Caesar as the prose of choice: reading, translating and analyzing the required passages of the Aeneid and Pliny's letters, scanning hexameter and sight-reading, with Roman history and culture behind every line, building on Latin I and II.

Mandarin at the college level: conversation, email and story narration, reading in simplified and traditional characters, and Chinese cultural practices and perspectives across the AP themes, building on Mandarin I and II.

Read Rome in its own words. Meet Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Ovid, Vergil and Augustus through adapted and then authentic Latin, each paired with objects and places, and finish by writing a Latin epitaph.

Spanish IV for grades 10-12, taught mostly in Spanish. Each hall begins with a work, object or place in a museum of the Spanish-speaking world, from the Prado to the Museo del Oro, and builds toward Intermediate High and a final interview.

Mandarin III moves from the Forbidden City to the Shanghai Museum, taught mostly in Mandarin with simplified characters, traditional for recognition and pinyin for new words. Explore cities, brush art, festivals and chengyu, then tell your own chengyu story.

Third-year French taught mostly in French through museums and places, from the Musée d'Orsay to Dakar and Quebec. Early lessons review the past tenses and relative pronouns. The course ends with a debate on restitution and on protecting the language.

Third-year German, taught mostly in German through museums and places: Grimm tales, Gutenberg, Bertha Benz, the Bauhaus, the Berlin Wall, Vienna. Review key grammar, weigh who invented the car, and produce a news broadcast.

My body, food and sleep, and staying safe at home and online, learned with a parent at the table. Children in kindergarten through grade 5 explore their senses, heart and lungs, plan a healthy day, and build a family safety guide.

Building a fitness plan, eating well without dieting, and caring for mind and safety, with an activity log the student keeps.

Health for high school, built on evidence: how body systems, food, sleep and movement work together; stress, relationships and decisions; the facts on alcohol, nicotine and other drugs; first aid and Hands-Only CPR; and how to read health data and judge a source.

How do populations get sick and get well? Trace outbreaks from John Snow to today, read risk and studies, weigh vaccines and herd immunity, and see how housing, income and place shape health, using CDC, WHO and County Health Rankings data.

Every hero in this course is checked twice: once against the record of the time, and once against the poem, painting, song or film that made the legend. From James Cook and Paul Revere to Bonnie and Clyde, and on to Lindbergh, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali. Who makes a hero, when, and for what purpose?

Who keeps order, how crime is counted, why it happens, how it is detected and proved, and what a society does with the people it convicts. Built on the FBI's own data: forty years of national crime figures, clearance rates, every law-enforcement agency the FBI lists, and crime by city. Each hall ends in a trade at VoTechWorks.

Where did sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, horses and camels first live with people, and how did they end up on every continent? Students answer with maps they build themselves in QGIS, a free and open-source mapping program. Each point and route links back to the breed rooms and galleries of the Museum of Friendly Beasts, and the course adds the biology of genes, the domestication syndrome, selective breeding and animal welfare.

Students learn to treat a spoon, a dress, a catalog page or a photograph as a witness that can be questioned. They study the household as a small economy of work, money, time and goods, then learn how photographs get corrected, restored or faked. Along the way they build their own small museum exhibit, using real records from the Library of Congress.

Why do some blocks hold forty-story towers while the next neighborhood stays low? Students use The City museum's CBD maps and city profiles, Sanborn fire insurance maps and public data to find out how land value, transit and zoning shape where and how cities grow. They finish by building a profile of a real city and defending a plan for its future.

Students walk through the museum's political, industrial, scientific and social galleries and compare how big change really happens: what lit the fuse, which moments turned the tide, and who won and lost. Every lesson puts a primary source in their hands, from a Haitian declaration of independence to a mill girl's testimony to a civil rights jail letter. Families can try the first lesson free.

Students use the Golden Age of Piracy museum as their textbook. They follow ships, animals, goods and people across the Atlantic from 1492 to the 1720s. The course starts with the animals in Lamby and ends in Nassau, the Caribbean and Florida, and it covers the slave trade factually and carefully along the way.

Students use the Museum of Society as their textbook. They read its exhibits to learn how groups form, how markets set prices, and how rules and governments are made. Along the way they collect evidence, test claims against data, and weigh contested questions fairly. They finish with a policy memo of their own.

Students treat fairy tales, fables, myths and nonsense verse as real literature. They take stories apart to see how they are built, follow tales as they travel and change, and then write their own. All readings are public-domain texts, and the course ends with a portfolio of original work.

Every museum is a set of choices about what to keep, what to show and what to say. In this course, students use real museums as their textbook. They trace how collecting began, follow objects such as the Benin Bronzes back to their homes, and ask who gets a say in where things belong. They finish by designing and defending an exhibit of their own.

Students use the Zoo as their textbook. They watch live cams like field biologists, search the species catalog, and learn how scientists rank extinction risk on the IUCN Red List. They then take on the hard questions: when breeding animals in zoos helps, what we owe the animals we keep, and how to choose when money and space run short.