Getting Started

1.) Make sure you understand the responsibility that you are taking upon yourself.

Read the information on this website and in the registration packets. Call the school if you still have any unanswered questions or if you would like to meet with the administrator for a personal explanation.

2.) Choose the program that best fits your needs and situation.

Homeschooling Program

This is traditional, do-it-yourself homeschooling. Parents fill out registration forms for each child at the beginning of each year and pay the required fees. They purchase or create whatever curriculum or materials they want to use for teaching. They teach their children at least 180 days in the school year. At the end of each semester, they report semester grades for each subject to D1A. The staff of D1A creates an official transcript using those grades reported by the parent. (This program is not available for any student who has been expelled or suspended from their previous school or is on probation nor is it for adult students.)

Satellite Program

Some parents want more help from an outside teacher or more accountability and structure. Students on the Satellite Program receive sets of assignments which they complete at home with the supervision and help of their parents. When a student has completed a set of assignments and has studied and prepared for testing, he returns to Daniel 1 to take a test over the material. The program supervisor grades his daily work and the test to get a unit score. The student then receives the next set of assignments to take home. These students can also receive up to 2 hours a week of personal tutoring. Tutoring is now available two ways:  sitting down at D1A with a teacher or online using your home computer. Parents avoid the struggle to choose a curriculum and also do not have to determine grades.

Correspondence Program

This is for parents who like the structure of the Satellite Program but for whatever reason would be unable to bring the student to the school on a weekly or biweekly basis. The only differences is that the assignments are mailed to the student who completes them, takes the test at home and mails the completed work and tests to the academy for grading by the supervisor. Two hours of tutoring per week is also available for these students one of two ways: sitting down at D1A with a teacher or online using your home computer.

Day School Program

Daniel 1 has a one-room school where a very small group of students in grades 1-12 can attend class with an experienced teacher who incorporates the best methods of homeschooling into a classroom setting. Anyone interested in learning more about the school should make an appointment with the administrator of D1A.

3.) Complete the registration materials and gather all required papers.

You can download the registration packets by clicking here. Complete all the pages needed for your student. Please use a different registration form for each child. You may submit the registration by mail, fax or bring it into the school. Be sure and include the correct amount of fees and any other papers required or the registration will be returned to you.

Birth certificate

An official copy must be submitted with registration for any student new to D1A.

Parent’s proof of high school education or higher (For Homeschooling Program only)

If this is the first child you are registering with D1A, you must submit a copy of a parent’s high school diploma or transcript showing graduation date, or any proof of schooling after high school such as a college transcript. Call the school if you have questions about this.

Proof of guardianship

If someone other than the student's parents (i.e. grandparents, friend, other family member) is enrolling the student, you must submit copies of official documents proving guardianship of the student.

 

Unofficial copy of high school transcript for students in grades 9-12 who are registering on the Satellite or Correspondence Programs

This will help us to be able to start your student more quickly on the new materials. Without it we will have to wait until their former school sends us records.

4.) Withdraw your student from former school.

In addition to registering with Daniel 1, if your student was attending another school you will need to officially withdraw him from that school. Go to the school and find out what you need to do or call them and ask.

5.) Begin teaching your student at home.

On the Homeschooling program you will need to obtain school materials to use. You can purchase them across the internet, from individuals, from curriculum fairs and from retail stores. There is a curriculum store at Daniel 1's location called The Teacher's Corner that carries materials from School of Tomorrow (also called PACES or A.C.E.) and from Alpha Omega (called Lifepacs) as well as some other publishers.

On the Satellite & Correspondence programs you will be receiving your curriculum from Daniel 1 along with a schedule to follow.