About
About Us
We know that there are a lot of other curriculum options out there, but we feel that none of them have been developed out of the genuine love and respect for homeschooling that CAO has.
As a nonprofit start-up, we take our mission seriously. We are on a mission to simplify homeschooling (where parents can homeschool with ease) without becoming a full-on private school (where parents lose control over what and how they teach their students).
We want our curriculum to fit how you as parents want to teach, not how we want you to teach.
Why Choose Us?
Learn At Home
Homeschooling can be easy with the right tools. Tired of losing control of your routine or struggling to maintain records and grades? We’ve got you covered.
Growing Library of Instructional Resources
From recorded webinars to instructional videos and curated content, you’ll get what you need when you need it to optimize your homeschooling routine, further your education, or supplement your teaching with educational videos for K-8.
Real-Time Discussions
Exclusive Co-op Chat Group and Member-Only Homeschool Community for ultimate networking and community-based support and clubs for parents and students.
Strong Community
Feel connected and supported through our various meet-ups, support groups, clubs, and community events. Our organization is biblically-inspired, meaning that we extract key ethical and community-based values from the biblical text in order to build community bonds and strengthen our CAO family without pushing a specific religion.
Support for Students
Need academic advising, mentoring, or tutoring? How about co-op classes, virtual clubs, honor society connections, or leadership opportunities? If we don’t have it, we certainly know someone in our network who does.
Online Courses and Curricula Matching
Whether we design it or resell from partners at a discounted rate, you’ll get the courses and programs you need at the price you need.
Our Vision For the Future
We believe that online education is a flexible benefit to all children, but especially to homeschooled children. Since homeschooled children depend on their family’s monetary income to have the materials they need, some children don’t have access to the materials that other, more privileged homeschooled and privately schooled students have.
At Canary Academy, we believe in a flexible, affordable, manageable, and technology-based education that centers around the child and their parents. Nothing more. Nothing less. We have partnered with dozens of well-known resource providers to give your students the most engaging experience in the history of homeschooling.
The wonderful thing about this curriculum structure is that it is based around flexibility; there is no rush to finish, no pre-set deadlines to deal with, and the subjects that your students learn are chosen by the you (the parent) at the beginning. However, this does not mean we leave you on your own: parent-teacher conferences are held every quarter, records and transcripts are handled by us, and portfolio making is our specialty.
Plus, we offer free consultations to parents who aren’t quite sure where to start. It’s the perfect balance for busy parents and innovative students who need the materials that the public schools offer without the large cost. We understand that AP classes, dual enrollment, and testing is expensive and time-consuming, so we have simplified it by giving it to you in all one place for an affordable price. That’s just how we roll here at Canary Academy!
Contribute
With your help and support, we can continue to help families across America!
Our Goals
We see a world where biblically-inspired online education becomes the norm, and books become the resource to the class and not the course itself. Canary Academy Online believes in the parent’s right to educate their children in their fashion in accordance with state laws.
We see our platform as a way to bring equitable e-learning to homeschoolers, by providing the benefits of inexpensive and flexible learning, facilitated support, online connections, custom courses, and interactive lessons and mastery systems.
Thank you for believing in our vision.
Our Values Explained:
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Our Values – Hebraic Ethicism
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Our values – Integrity
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Our values – Good Citizenship
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Our values – Respect
Be grateful, encouraging, diligent, and humble. Know when to speak up for yourself and when to listen. Respect nature, respect the belief of others that differ from your own and respect the rules of conduct of CAO and our co-op.
The students and parents in our co-op are expected to uphold integrity by acting and reacting in a respectful manner, respecting the opinions and beliefs of others, having good and healthy dialog in our discussions and in interactions with peers.
In our co-op, we instill the value of Good Citizenship by providing students and parents with opportunities to serve the community, respect elders, practice servant-leadership skills, and advocate for justice to improve society as a whole.
What does this mean? At our core, Hebraic Ethicism simply means that our families honor and embrace the Hebraic principles of wisdom, courage, knowledge, environmentalism, and analysis of factual evidence. We advocate for justice, peace, and love in our communities. We allow ourselves space to seek out the truth on an individual level. These ideals can be embraced regardless of a family’s background.
These values do not signify that CAO is aligned with any one religion as an organization. Instead, these values have been extracted from ancient Hebrew literature and culture and are understood to be adaptable for every family from every background. We support families from all walks of life in their endeavor to homeschool with inspiration from these key pillars.