Joshua Center (9th-12th Grades)
Students are required to earn 26 high school credits for graduation, exceeding the 24 required by state law. Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum is used in a Learning Center environment. ACE is individualized, self-paced curriculum that integrates goal setting, integrity, and time management into the program. Learning is designed to progress students from concrete to abstract reasoning skills. Diagnostic placement testing ensures that students begin at the point of their personal academic need. In this way, students are able to fill their “learning gaps” without the stigma of failing a grade or course. The emphasis of learning is on mastery learning, critical thinking, conceptualization, cognitive reasoning, and life principles from God’s perspective.

Character traits – such as honesty, kindness, and loyalty – are taught within subject content. Testing includes memorization of Bible verses. Students attend chapel weekly and participate in music, art, drama, and PE.  This well-rounded curriculum strengthens academic instruction with life skills, Bible truths, Christian character, and discipline in study skills and behavior.

In the spring, students participate in a week long Regional Convention held at The Wilds in North Carolina.  At Regional Convention students compete against students from 7 states in the areas of art, music, drama, academics, and Bible memorization.  Students placing 3rd or higher receive an invitation to participate in the International Convention in May.  In 2008 students competed against students from 36 states and 27 countries from around the world.