Academic Overview
Find the core curriculum that fits your child best.
Epic California Academy offers a variety of options when it comes to personalizing an education plan for your child.
What makes Epic different from other California schools is that we understand that each student is unique and a customized approach to learning is critical. This is why Epic has partnered with a number of notable curriculum providers and scholastic programs.
Many of our students excel in areas outside of the traditional classroom and find Epic to be the perfect solution to pursuing their dreams. It is our hope that Epic will allow your child to achieve more with a flexible schedule and a personalized learning plan as well.
From the first days of school to those final weeks of high school before graduation, Epic will be with you each step of the way.
Epic California Academy allows families to have a highly individualized educational experience. A variety of curriculum options are available for all grade levels. Epic provides a California certified teacher who works with families to develop an Individualized Learning Plan for each student. The teachers meet face-to-face with students and families at least once every learning period.
Find the core curriculum that fits your child best. You can work with your dedicated teacher to tailor it to your child’s interests, needs, and schedule. Our goal: make school fun, fascinating, flexible, and full of possibility.
| Curriculum & Website Link | Grade Levels | Subject Areas | Description |
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| Accelerate | K — 8 | M, S, SS, ELA | Accelerate Education provides online education courses for Kindergarten through 8th grade to meet the needs of all students, from at-risk students who had trouble succeeding in the traditional classroom to high achieving students seeking classes their schools cannot provide for them. |
| ALEKS | 3 — 8 | M | ALEKS is a research-based, online learning program that offers course products for Math, Chemistry, Statistics, and more. Rooted in 20 years of research and analytics, ALEKS is a proven, online learning platform that helps educators and parents understand each student’s knowledge and learning progress in depth, and provides the individual support required for every student to achieve mastery. |
| Apex^ | 6 — 12 | M, S, SS, ELA | Students learn when they’re constructively challenged. Apex curriculum features the rigor and supports—through extensive scaffolding and embedded learning tools—that prepare all students to succeed and thrive. |
| Bright Thinker | K — 12 | M, S, SS, ELA | Bright Thinker’s customizable program allows students to work at their own pace. Moreover, the classwork is catered to different learning styles, so the curriculum is always challenging, stimulating, and beneficial. Bright Thinker’s precision, mastery-based learning system is engineered to build on a student’s strengths in a modern, engaging fashion. The dynamic program uses multi-media tools, a cutting-edge curriculum, and a personalized approach. |
| EB Academics | Select 5, 6, and 7 | ELA |
Deliver engaging and rigorous ELA lessons while increasing student learning outcomes. EB Academics is a comprehensive ELA program for Grades 5-8 with thousands of lessons, a core ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, teacher professional development and mentorship, and custom lesson planning software.
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| Edgenuity | 6-12 | M, S, SS, ELA | Discover rigorous, evidence-based solutions for any instructional model. Help students meet their personal academic goals, whether they need rigorous coursework to accelerate learning or the opportunity to recover credits. Engage students with 400+ interactive courses covering core, electives, world languages, test prep, career and technical education (CTE), and Advanced Placement®. |
| Edmentum Courseware (Plato)*^ | 6 -8, 9-12 Electives only | M, S, SS, ELA |
Dynamic curricular design. Instruction is interactive and media rich to inspire self-directed, active investigation and focus on efficiency—students only invest time on not-yet-mastered content. Along the way, learners receive explicit instruction, deliberate practice, and ongoing scaffolding using metacognitive strategies to engage them in ongoing reflection—all of which minimizes passive reception and increases long-term understanding.
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| Maneuvering the Middle | Select 5, 6, and 7 | Math | Math resources designed with students and teachers in mind. Comprehensive and standards-based, the program is focused on student mastery of the standards; provides all the necessary components of a primary curriculum, with an engaging practice, clearly scaffolded lessons, and higher order problem solving components. |
| Odysseyware^ | 3 — 12 | M, S, SS, ELA | Imagine Odysseyware provides easy-to-access, user-friendly digital content and curriculum that includes over 300 standards-based core courses and electives. Course options include enriching electives such as Career & Technical Education (CTE) courses, world languages, the arts, health, test readiness, life skills, and more. With easy-to-use navigation, Odysseyware is available anytime on any device. Most of Odysseyware’s lessons are automatically graded with answer keys or guides to make grading easy. |
| StrongMind*^ | K — 12 | M, S, SS, ELA | Award-winning, research-backed learning designed not just to educate, but to inspire. From foundational skills to future passions, we’ve got every step of the journey covered. |
| Studies Weekly | K — 8 | S, SS | Engage ALL K-6 students in Studies Weekly Social Studies and Science. Studies Weekly doesn’t need a bunch of heavy textbooks to be an engaging core curriculum. Our student-friendly periodical format and robust online learning platform is aligned to state standards and frameworks, consumable and hands-on, organized through themes, ready for your language arts block. |
| UC Scout*^ | HS | M, S, SS, ELA | UC Scout is a University of California Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships (SAPEP) program that develops and delivers A-G approved online classes and curriculum to students around the globe. UC Scout is hosted at UC Santa Cruz and is closely aligned with UCSC’s core values and principles of community. UC Scout course materials are designed to inspire lifelong curiosity and prepare pupils of all backgrounds and education levels for an increasingly technological world where training and job skills are mobile, asynchronous, and self-directed. |
| Waterford SmartStart (TK only) |
TK | M, S, ELA | Research-based, comprehensive preschool curriculum designed especially for the PreK teacher and classroom. SmartStart’s PreK software and guides combine to teach early reading, math, science, and social studies concepts as well as executive function, creative arts, and health and physical development. |