Time Offered: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Grades: 11-12 & PG

Teacher: Ashley Nadeau

Confer CA Credit: No

In this course, students will explore how museums, curators, critics, and even algorithms act as gatekeepers, deciding which artworks, artists, and cultures are highlighted or overlooked. They will examine current debates around decolonizing museums, contested objects, and representation, and connect these issues to the visual culture they encounter everyday online. By the end of this course, students will be able to “read” museums and images with a critical eye, articulate who is deciding what gets shown and why, and propose more inclusive, ethical approaches to collecting and display. They will strengthen visual literacy, research, and argumentation skills, while gaining confidence in their own voices as emerging artists, viewers, and cultural decision-makers.

Time Offered: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Grades: 11-12 & PG (R-rated movie included)

Teacher: Katie Cooper

Confer CA Credit: No

Frankenstein: Identity, Creation, and the Making of Monsters is a semester-long exploration of identity, creation, and societal expectations through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and its many film reinterpretations. Students will examine how literature and cinema construct “monsters” by analyzing narrative voice, characterization, visual storytelling, and cultural context. Through close reading, film technique study using IB-aligned vocabulary, and ethical inquiry into the responsibilities of creators, students will investigate how individuals are shaped—and sometimes distorted—by the societies that define them. The course culminates in a comparative analysis that asks students to consider how adaptations reflect shifting anxieties, values, and understandings of what it means to be human.

Time Offered: 8-10 a.m.

Grade: 11

Teacher: Melissa Goodwin

CA Credit Conferred: No

This online summer course is designed for students entering 11th grade who will be taking an IB Spanish course and want a refresher or structured introduction before the school year begins. The course focuses on rebuilding core language skills while introducing the expectations, skills, and thematic approach of IB Spanish. Students will practice essential grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structures, while developing confidence in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Emphasis is placed on communication strategies, circumlocution, and cultural awareness rather than memorization. By the end of the course, students will feel more prepared, confident, and familiar with the pace and style of IB Spanish coursework.

Time Offered: 8-10 a.m.

Grade: 9-10

Teacher: Makaila English

CA Credit Conferred: No

This six‑week online course helps rising 9th and 10th graders feel confident and prepared for their integrated science class by previewing key ideas from biology, chemistry, and physics in a low‑stakes, supportive setting. Students explore big themes such as matter and energy, forces and motion, and how particles and reactions underpin both living and nonliving systems, while practicing core high‑school science skills like graphing, data analysis, modeling, and scientific explanation writing. Through short interactive lessons, problem‑solving activities, and virtual “lab‑style” tasks that can be done at home with simple materials, students build the habits and background knowledge they will need to succeed in 9th and 10th grade science.

Time Offered: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Grades: 9-12 & PG

Teacher: Rodrigo Maltarollo

Confer CA Credit: No

In this course, we will complete units from an introductory course on a topic that we all deal with in the day to day, like it or not: macroenomics. Topics include the level of overall economic activity, aggregate demand and aggregate supply, unemployment and inflation, economic growth and sustainable level of debt, economics of inequality and poverty, and demand-side and supply-side policies. 

Time Offered: 8-10 a.m.

Grades: 9-12 & PG

Teacher: Stephen MacDonald

CA Credited Conferred: No

This course will focus on the major art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout the course students will develop visual thinking strategies to analyze artwork, complete projects on both artists and art movements, and participate in group discussions with their peers. This course encourages critical thinking and analysis, research and communication skills, and establishing interdisciplinary connections.

Time Offered: 8-10 a.m.

Grades: 7-9

Teacher: Sarah Lasoff-Hodge

CA Credit Conferred: No

This is an intensive, skills-based course designed to equip students with the essential academic, organizational, and personal effectiveness tools needed to successfully navigate the transition into and through secondary school (middle school or high school).

Secondary school brings increased academic rigor, greater social independence, and more responsibility for managing one’s own learning. This course moves beyond basic homework help to focus on developing the crucial executive function skills and growth mindset necessary to thrive in a demanding environment and prepare for future post-secondary goals.

Time Offered: 8-10 a.m.

Grades: 10-12 & PG

Teacher: Matt Bender

Confer CA Credit: No

This course explores the character development of Henry Plantagenet as a character in Shakespeare’s plays and contextualizes him as a historical figure. We will do this through the reading of four Shakespeare plays and watching BBC’s “The Hollow Crown” miniseries together, along with class discussions. Students will be practicing and strengthening skills in critical thinking, collaboration, reading, writing, and communication through various assignments. Assessment formats are projects and essays, and feedback will be given regularly via both written and verbal interactions.

Time Offered: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Grades: 9-12 & PG

Teacher: Sara Kelleher

CA Credit Conferred: No

This online summer course is designed for students entering 11th grade who will be taking an IB Spanish course and want a refresher or structured introduction before the school year begins. The course focuses on rebuilding core language skills while introducing the expectations, skills, and thematic approach of IB Spanish. Students will practice essential grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structures, while developing confidence in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Emphasis is placed on communication strategies, circumlocution, and cultural awareness rather than memorization. By the end of the course, students will feel more prepared, confident, and familiar with the pace and style of IB Spanish coursework.