About Us

Uplift Learning Academy is an online platform providing virtual classes, designed and developed by professional educators, to help regular online schooling students & homeschoolers learn best within their comfort zone. We also offer face to face classes for local learners.

The journey to our ULA started in 2021. Due to COVID-19 we switched many of our nonprofit programs to virtual services as well as learning model to provide uninterrupted quality education to students. However, we also observe many children in proverty couldn't afford to participate in many tutoring or online lifeskill courses despite the response of parents being interested in the educational services being offered.

The Founder Director, LaShundra Williams, envisions bringing real-time, skills-based online academic education while inculcating strong value systems in kids to appreciate human relationships & survival at large. Gradually we are building a team of leaders, academicians, entrepreneurs, educators who believes in innovating brilliant ideas that work for the whole child approach through the medium of education.

VISION

Our vision is to reach students locally and world wide to help them build skills & values that set them up for success in their future endeavors. We want to live in a world where you don’t need wealthy or educated parents to achieve your academic goals. We’ll make this a reality by ensuring every student in target areas can access high-quality academic support anytime, anywhere, and from any device.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide skills-based, fun-filled, interactive, real-time applicable stimulating learning experiences to students, that promotes their cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual development. To democratize access to academic support so that all students have an equal opportunity to finish high school, attend college, and achieve upward mobility.

Uplift Community Outreach is our local nonprofit that serves underprivilieged families in Leon County. Uplift Our Youth Program is a program that gives low-income students immediate, free or low cost access to academic support in order to help them on their path to obtaining a college degree. In 10 years, we hope to ensure that every low-income youth in the US can access free, high-quality academic support anytime, anywhere, and from any device.

Using our free, online platform, low-income students can request help in a specific subject (e.g., Algebra) any time they need it, even at night. ULA then pairs the student with a volunteer tutor or teacher.

What We Do

1. PROVIDE AFFORDABLE TUTORING, ACADEMIC AND LIFE SKILLS COURSES

We currently offer Math tutoring, ELA, Science tutoring, basic core subjects and life skills courses.

2. BUILD STUDENT-CENTERED TECHNOLOGY

We’re building the most accessible, student-friendly platform for academic support. Available on all devices, no prescheduling required.

3. SUPPORT SCHOOLS

ULA helps our partners ensure student success through student support, staff/teacher training, data analytics, and more.

How It Works

Eligible students can create a free account and request help in a specific subject (e.g., Algebra) or browse classes of interest or need. Full time homeschoolers can access a full year of academic course and electices.

Our 2030 goal: Scale ULA to all 4 million low-income school students in the US.

Uplift Learning Academy Overview

For students enrolled in our online schools, learning happens at home, on the road, or wherever an Internet connection can be found, although many of the lessons use offline materials and tools as well. Attendance, teacher interaction, and daily lessons are all conducted online.

Uplift Virtual Plan

Classes are delivered live online by our experienced & highly-qualified educators. Students are taught in the scheduled classrooms, any day of the week. Learners are active agents who bring their own knowledge, past experiences, education, and ideas – and this impacts how they take on board new information and learn. Our qualified and experienced educators then extends learning by demonstrating the lesson with thoughtfully pre-planned engaging resources and interactive content to keep students focused. Students may then be set to work in class activities, shared tasks, individual tasks and sometimes working in groups thereby enhancing their socialization & interpersonal skills.

During the online live session, your child can communicate with the educator and other students through media like voice, text, whiteboard, demonstrations, presentations and screen sharing. Educators will constantly monitor students interaction and respond to their questions. The absence of distractions or disruptions enables educators to devote themselves entirely to teaching and learning. Being a part of virtual classroom, your child can exchange ideas, culture, traditions etc. that can help him to develop strong interpersonal skill, a trait leaders vouch for.

This plan is great for traditional,homeschool students or any student interest in a live class for academic studies, live skills, gaming, virtual field trips and much more, just at the comfort of your home.

Working with Teachers

Although parents serve as the primary learning coach for their students and help manage their student's schedule, ensuring that work is completed at a reasonable pace, they are never alone in the education process.

An experienced teacher is assigned to each classand communicates with parents and students on a regular basis through e-mail, classroom messages and online meetings. Teachers remain constantly involved: they monitor progress, ensure mastery, and develop specific intervention plans when a child is struggling, and manage all facets of the instructional experience.

Curriculum Overview

Online Live Lessons.

Each online live class or lesson provides the roadmap for the entire lesson, including: direction to specific online and offline materials, online lesson content, and a summary of the major objectives for the lesson. Lessons utilize a combination of innovative technologies: flash animations and online interactivity, coordinated textbooks and hands-on materials, and individualized feedback to create an engaging, responsive, and highly effective curriculum. Each lesson also contains an online assessment to ensure that students have mastered the material and are ready to proceed to the next lesson, allowing them to work at their own pace. Pronunciation guides for key words and references to suggested additional resources, specific to each lesson and each student’s assessment, are also included.

Offline Learning Kits.

ULA may utilize a series of offline learning kits in conjunction with the online lessons to help maximize the effectiveness of the learning system. In addition to receiving access to online lessons through the Internet, each student may require offline materials, including textbooks, art supplies, laboratory supplies (e.g. microscopes and scales), and other reference materials, which are incorporated throughout the online school’s curriculum.

FAQs

How much time do students spend on the computer?

Students typically will spend no more than 20–30 percent of their time on the computer in the early grades. Computers help us provide you with effective assessment, planning, and time-management tools. Computers also act as powerful teaching tools that can motivate, stimulate, and inform children about the world around them. They do not, however, replace a solid education. Rather, they help facilitate one.

How do children learn Music in an online school?

Music courses provide comprehensive lessons to help your child learn the basics of music and develop an appreciation for great music from diverse traditions. The lessons assume that neither you nor your child has prior training in singing or reading music. As you participate in these activities you and your child will learn and have fun together.

How do children learn Math in an online school?

Math courses offer a carefully structured sequence of lessons designed to help students make steady progress from fundamental skills to more complex mathematical concepts. Many programs take an active, multisensory, hands-on approach, to ensure that children understand the concrete realities that underlie mathematical concepts (e.g., shape, length, quantity). Regular practice, review, and assessment ensure mastery of basic skills; online games and animations help illustrate concepts and motivate and instruct children.

How do children learn History in an online school?

History courses, with integrated topics in Geography and Civics, invite children to go beyond the immediate, the local, and the personal. Young minds are opened and imaginations are taken to far-off lands, distant times, and diverse people. By exploring how people have lived and how civilizations have developed, young people are better prepared to do everything from reading a newspaper to appreciating a painting to casting an informed vote.

How do children learn Science in an online school?

Science courses encourage children to explore scientific concepts through hands-on activities. Students learn to make careful observations, ask relevant questions, draw conclusions, and communicate information. They think carefully about what they do and see, and they learn about great scientists who have shaped our understanding of the world we live in. Each lesson provides clear, detailed instructions for experiments and activities.

How do children learn Language Arts/English in an online school?

Phonics and Handwriting. Developed for students in kindergarten and first grade, phonics courses give you the tools you need to help your child take the first steps toward fluency, competence, and confidence in reading, writing, and spelling.Literature and Language Skills. Structured lessons on readiness, language, and literature help develop comprehension skills, build vocabulary, and open the doors to a wide range of imaginative experience. These lessons focus on classic literature—folktales, fairy tales, fables, and poetry—with an emphasis on works that embody exemplary virtues, as well as a generous variety of titles for fun reading.

How do children learn art in an online school?

Art courses make fun projects while learning about great art and artists. Focusing on the basics of line, shape, color, pattern, and texture, children will draw, paint, work with clay, and do other activities to learn how artists design their works. Children will explore different forms and styles of art—painting and sculpture, portraits and landscapes, realistic and abstract—while becoming familiar with important works of art from diverse times and places.

Can my child work at his or her own pace?

Absolutely. Online schools are designed to meet your unique needs. You and your child move forward in each subject at a pace that's right for you.

Our mission is to foster a love of learning in your children, through creative lesson plans and prompts.

"A creative education has the power to catapult children into a lifetime of curiosity.”

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