ICONIX PHILOSOPHY

ICONIX customizes education with prescriptive learning experiences to nurture each child according to individual need. We build education around each child as opposed to wedging children into a one size fits all system. Our mission is to help every child we encounter and establish better schools to make America smart again.

Synergy between church and school is obvious. Parents should be free to choose their children’s school as freely as they choose their church. Church facilities are available during school hours. Our plan provides the base for children to thrive academically, socially, and spiritually within the community their parents have chosen.

Teachers Learn to Play

 ICONIX methods and sequences arrange conditions allowing students to extend natural play into school. Instruction melds seamlessly into natural play. Just as brain development is hierarchical, so too are our instructional methods and sequences.

The ICONIX teacher carefully watches her students. She “Watches and Wonders.” She watches what each child does, and she wonders why they do it. She knows there is No Purposeless Behavior. Before she fully commits to a particular approach for any child, she asks and answers the big question.

What are you doing in there?

She becomes a “Diagnostician of Thinking” as opposed to a deliverer of data. She teaches thinking, later her fully engaged students delight in the discovery of data.

It is paramount for the teacher to accurately assess each child’s state of development to prescribe lessons, in the form of games, that match each student’s developmental need.

Students work on the same lesson material but with differentiated “rules of the game.” Properly differentiated demand is richly rewarded with enthusiastic engagement.

Although we provide rigorous curricular content, ICONIX places more emphasis on developing a child’s capacity to learn. Public schools mistakenly emphasize content over learning capacity. Those who have leaned to learn, master lesson content like a hot knife through butter.

Children Play to Learn

Children, like kittens, play with natural abandon. They do not need to learn to play. The most rapid expansion of synaptic density occurs in the first four years of life. Children are fantastic natural learners, and play is their business. Spontaneous imaginative play is the magic elixir that fuels the most explosive learning period of life.  Artful ICONIX teachers weave instruction into the golden recipe of play. At ICONIX, it is all fun and games.

ICONIX offers traditional K-12 curriculum driven through energetic challenges and games the whole family can enjoy as opposed to isolated sedentary hours inside a computer screen.

What We Teach +

How We Teach It

Character Traits

  • Optimism

  • Getting Along

  • Responsibility

  • Kindness

  • Respect

  • Work Ethic

Interpersonal Skills

  • Etiquette

  • Manners

  • Personal Accountability

  • Individual Responsibility

  • Internal Control Psychology

Academic Subjects

  • The Bible

  • Receptive and Expressive Language Skills

  • The 3 Rs - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

  • Sciences

  • Geography

  • History

  • Literature

“When the answers are simple,

you are seeing God’s mind”.

- Albert Einstein

Developmental Skills

  • Balance

  • Reflex Integration

  • Physical Skills

  • Eye Movement Skills

  • Visual Attention and Cognition

  • Executive Functions

  • Nutrition

  • Social Skills

Relationship Skills

7 Connecting Habits

  • Contributing

  • Befriending

  • Supporting

  • Tusting

  • Encouraging

  • Listening

  • Caring

How we Operate

The ICONIX Method provides a four-suite platform that contains:

  •  Comprehensive training for parents, teachers, and doctors

  • State-of-the-art teaching methods

  • Customized curriculum, prescriptive pedagogy, and turn-key support for homeschoolers, neighborhood and church schools

  • Online and in-person diagnostic, instruction and support services.

Safe, Loved …. Learning

Strong Character and a Gentle Heart Requires Few Rules

Successful endeavors arise within cultures of engagement where participants are there by choice, good works are paramount, good relationships abound, and behavior is motivated by mission, not rule-based constraint. Such cultures satisfy the needs of participants, are enjoyable, and merit is naturally and honestly recognized. ICONIX understands that to build a culture of engagement, servant leadership is required.

Parents, Are You Ready to Take Control?

In addition to individual learning diagnostics and customized instructional plans, ICONIX offers complete turn-key home and private school plans including ongoing support. We know how, and will work with any group to start, run and train those that wish to join in our mission.

Teachers, Are You Ready to Revitalize Your Approach?

At ICONIX we believe in God, family, country, neuroscience and chaos theory – systems with the fewest constraints operate with the greatest efficiency. We believe in choice - individual sovereignty and self determination. We offer our knowledge and skills in the most important free market of all – the market where parents choose the destiny of their children.

We hire teachers with heart, willingness to learn, and a pinch of courage.

We believe your work is worth more.