PARADIGM ACCELERATED CURRICULUM
Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum (PAC) is a business with a mission. Our entire focus is producing curriculum with character development qualities and superior academics that equip students with an advantage to make wise life choices and possess high academic competencies.
Courses are available in print, audio-enhanced and digital downloads for grades 7 through 12. Each course consists of text content produced in individual chapters, with companion activity books that “walk” students through each text in easy-to-follow sequence. Chapters are available for filling academic gaps, or as complete courses in convenient kits. Section quizzes and chapter tests, with answer keys, are included in each kit.
Lessons are distinguished by vocabulary enrichment, life principles, vignettes of positive role models, and superior academics that prepare students for college, careers, and domestic responsibilities. Courses are designed for independent learning, with very little dependence on proctors or parents. Thus, students are inspired to accelerate completion of courses based on personal initiative, rather than being locked into the calendar or a teacher’s schedule.
Paradigm’s award-winning curriculum has been helping students succeed for more than twenty years in accredited secular and sectarian schools, homes, correctional facilities, and on Native American reservations and military bases worldwide.
Major attractions of Paradigm include stress-free design and generous discounts available to such groups as active military, foster care, single-parents, first responders, missionaries, ranchers, and farmers.
Customers have no regrets after switching from traditional textbooks and classroom-style teaching to Paradigm’s independent learning courses that free parents from preparing lesson plans, making tests, and teaching lessons face-to-face to multiple-age children. With Paradigm, students confidently learn, and parents have time to take a breath.
OUR MISSION
The mission of Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum is to give students an academic and character advantage in life through superior, individualized print and digital curriculum, and an efficient independent learning system, applicable in homes, recovery centers, tutorial settings, charters, contracts, micro-campuses, academies, and schools-within-schools.
OUR MISSION
The mission of Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum is to give students an academic and character advantage in life through superior, individualized print and digital curriculum, and an efficient independent learning system, applicable in homes, recovery centers, tutorial settings, charters, contracts, micro-campuses, academies, and schools-within-schools.
SECULAR OR SECTARIAN
Many state legislatures require schools to teach the historical role of religion in America’s history, especially regarding the Founding Fathers, legislation, documents, and correspondence from persons such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King, and others. Of particular concern of legislatures is that students know the background of such documents as the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, National Motto, and freedom of religion and press included in the Bill of Rights.
Moreover, college professors have expressed concern that contemporary public school textbooks have so expunged references to the Protestant Reformation, Crusades, and Puritans that college freshmen are basically ignorant of religious issues included in college courses.
In 1983, A Nation at Risk was released to inform parents, legislators, and educators of the need to reform public schools to cause them to be more effective in preparing students to preserve the basic principles and values of America.
President William Jefferson Clinton and Secretary of Education Terrel Bell sponsored a national conference in which divergent groups were invited to arrive at a reasonable solution to the issue of religion in public schools. The American Civil Liberties Union and representative from religious organizations issued joint- guidelines to help educators determine what should be allowed and disallowed in public school classrooms and textbooks. The official guidelines defined separation of church and state issues, stipulating that religion could and should be discussed in a historical context, and that references could be made to Biblical Scripture and personal beliefs provided they were taught in a historical rather than confessional context. (Confessional meaning that the material could not require a student to adhere to or reject a particular religious belief.)
Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum (PAC) adheres to official government guidelines regarding the historical role of religion in national and international context. Consequently, public and private money is applicable for purchase of PAC materials.
HOW TO USE PAC CURRICULUM
PAC FOUNDER
Dr. Johnson’s career as a teacher and school administrator includes innovative, individualized learning techniques, articles, books, manuals, international recognition and awards. He was selected as a Ford Fellow, Educational Entrepreneur Hero, and served as Vice-President of Development of a large textbook publishing company for 21 years. He was invited twice by President Reagan to the White House to discuss the impact of private schools on American education. He traveled extensively throughout Central and South America and the Pacific Rim area where he conducted educational seminars for public and private school educators. Dr. Johnson and his wife, Nancy, started Paradigm Alternative Center in Dublin, Texas (a contract school) which was recognized in U.S.A. Today newspaper among the nation’s top 58 effective programs for recovering at-risk teenagers. He is founder and president of Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum, which publishes textbooks designed with virtues and principles to help build character and provide superior academic competency.
