Where gifted, profoundly gifted, and 2e students thrive.
Custom education for students who crave academic challenge,
and a full playful childhood.
Student-centered learning—grades 3 to12—1-to-1 or in small groups.
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Accredited full-time,part-time, and enrichment programs—
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Custom journey.
In our self-paced, mastery-based environment, gifted and 2e learners come alive as they follow their own interests and curiosities. Our experienced and engaging teachers meet each student exactly where they’re at, and design a fully customized learning program, in any subjects—live online over Zoom, 1-to-1 or in small groups, with asynchronous support in between class sessions. Join full time, part time, or for enrichment or tutoring.
Teachers create student-centered coursework from scratch, drawing upon a wealth of resources, while catering to a student’s unique strengths, interests, and needs. We can adopt any approach to learning, empowering you to choose what works—whether a focus on learning standards, an inquiry or project-based approach, or a student-driven exploratory journey. Most choose a middle path: standards alignment, yet driven by student choice and engagement.
Wrap-around support.
Eclipse Academy is a neurodiversity affirming school, with wrap-around support services designed especially for gifted, profoundly gifted, and twice-exceptional (2e) learners and their families.
Our teachers are experienced at supporting a range of neurodiversities and needs—from Autism and ADHD, to dyslexia and dysgraphia, executive functioning challenges, perfectionism, task avoidance, PDA, anxiety, and more. Usually several factors are at play, and are best addressed in tandem. We offer support in the form of direct instruction, coaching, and mentorship; we also can integrate our support into any for-credit courses, from Marine Biology to Creative Writing.
We gladly partner with third-party professionals working with our students and their families, such as psychologists and ed consultants, to coordinate care: by scheduling class sessions around other appointments, adjusting course pacing, conferencing with any professionals on your team, and personalizing curricula.
Holistic growth.
With our integrated approach to the academic, social, and emotional dimensions of giftedness and twice-exceptionalism, our students thrive. We learn what success looks like to your family, and adjust every aspect of our approach to match. Together we’ll define academic goals and chart a fully customized path, while deepening, accelerating, remediating, and enriching learning, as relevant, for each student. We center student engagement, as we understand this is a precondition for meaningful learning.
Schedule a complimentary discovery call with Ashley, our founder and Head of School, to discuss your family’s needs, goals, and values, and map out a customized constellation of solutions—à la carte—including accredited coursework (grades 3 to 12) in any subject, as well as enrichment, tutoring, academic coaching, test prep, student clubs, college-and-career counseling, and more.
Addressing the unique strengths and needs of gifted and 2e learners.
Our teachers know how to address the unique academic, social, and emotional needs of gifted, profoundly gifted, and twice-exceptional (2e) learners, for instance by pairing advanced learning resources (like Scientific American or The Atlantic magazines, or an online college course by Arizona State University) with playful, inquiry-based teaching approaches. With our fully customized, strengths-based approach, students can accelerate, deepen, and enrich their learning as relevant, often working several grade levels ahead in some topics while remediating in others.
We help our students to develop academic skills and a growth mindset, build confidence, and overcome their particular barriers to learning, whether that’s a need for more scaffolding on assignments, support with executive functioning, or overcoming habits like perfectionism or task avoidance. It’s common for our students to share enthusiastically about their interests and passions, in conversation, yet freeze up when faced with an open-ended prompt and a blank page. We’re experienced at meeting a student where they’re at, and helping them to find the tools and step-by-step strategies that work for them.
One size does not fit all.
Socially, our small-group classes offer safe and structured opportunities to practice collaborating with 2-to-6 peers, live over Zoom, grouped by ability and shared interests—often a first for gifted and 2e students, who have long searched for a community that feels like home. To foster positive peer interactions and encourage connection, we use Michelle Garcia Winner’s social-thinking framework, along with inquiry-focused, project-based learning.
In student-centered, inquiry-based learning, students come alive.
In our inquiry-based environment, students actively explore and investigate topics, solve personally relevant problems, and construct their own meaningful understanding. Students use inquiry, critical thinking, and hands-on experimentation as they learn by doing, and by asking and answering questions.
With our mastery-based approach, we avoid high-stakes, high-stress assessments. Instead, students are encouraged to keep exploring, discovering, and creating—at their own pace—until they fully understand a topic, answer a question, or refine a project.
As experienced educators, we understand that learning extends far beyond the computer screen. While Eclipse Academy class sessions take place online, teachers also seek out opportunities for students to apply their learning to the IRL world. A science student ventures into their backyard, collecting specimens for a terrarium they’re building. A music student performs locally for charity. A robotics student automates squeezing toothpaste out of the tube and onto a toothbrush. A culinary arts student caters their own family reunion. Across subjects, teachers devise hands-on projects and authentic activities that reinforce and expand learning, and serve as evidence of student learning and growth.
Supporting families, building a global 2e community.
With a family-systems approach, we advocate for each student’s total wellbeing, academically, socially, and emotionally. We support the student and their family in devising appropriate expectations, strategies, and boundaries around assignments and projects, and in refining best practices for study and executive function.
Among our students we foster a growth mindset, social-emotional vocabulary, self-regulation, non-violent communication, and accountability.
In our free parent education program, we offer workshops and 1-to-1 consulting, sharing strategies for nurturing gifted and 2e children and teens, especially around the interplay of giftedness and 2e challenges such as anxiety, avoidance, or perfectionism.
While we’re best known for our 1-to-1 class format, we also offer small-group classes and clubs, and optional in-person meetups—among a diaspora of gifted and 2e peers, from California to Toronto, and Singapore to Costa Rica. Though separated by continents, students meet on Zoom to learn and laugh together. In live Zoom class sessions, our students and teachers develop genuine rapport and care. Outside of class, often Eclipse students and families choose to spend time socially together, both over Zoom, and IRL by vacationing together around the world.
To foster our global Eclipse Academy community, we host in-person retreats annually each summer for our students, their families, and our staff. Our retreats are typically scheduled to follow and dovetail with other in-person events; our 2024 summer retreat followed the Profoundly Gifted Retreat (PGR) in the Hocking Hills of Ohio, while our 2025 retreat followed the Davidson Institute Summit in Reno, where our founder and Head of School Ashley led several workshops. We’ll get together again this summer in Reno, just after the Davidson Summit in June.
Gifted students deserve a full childhood, too.
At Eclipse Academy, we believe that every student has a right to an intellectually challenging, limitless education—and also to a full childhood that’s joyful and developmentally appropriate.
These two goals—profound academic achievement, and an unhurried childhood—need not be at odds. In fact, it’s our mission at Eclipse Academy to unify the two.
