Where gifted & twice-exceptional students thrive
Custom education for gifted students who crave academic challenge,
and a full playful childhood
Discovery-based learning for ages 8 - 18, one-to-one and in small groups
LIVE ONLINE
Enroll anytime year-round, full-time or part-time
Custom journey
In our self-paced, discovery-based environment, gifted and 2e learners come alive as they follow their interests and curiosities. Behind the scenes, teachers craft student-centered coursework, targeting each student’s learning goals and fostering their unique gifts.
Our experienced teachers meet each student exactly where they are, partnering with each family to co-design a custom homeschool, enrichment, or tutoring experience, across subjects — live online over Zoom, 1-to-1 and / or in small groups.
Wrap-around support
Eclipsing traditional schools, Eclipse Academy offers wrap-around services designed specifically for profoundly gifted and 2e learners. With full-time and part-time enrollment options, attend live online class sessions on a schedule you choose.
Our founder conducts a thorough intake to recommend a custom constellation of services — à la carte — such as 1-to-1 teaching and tutoring (in subjects you choose); small-group classes and clubs; executive-function, speech-and-language, social-emotional, and academic coaching; mindfulness; and college counseling and test prep.
Holistic growth
With a holistic approach addressing the academic, social, and emotional dimensions of giftedness and twice-exceptionalism, our students thrive.
We get to know what “academic success” and “social-emotional growth” look like to each family, and we tailor our approach to match.
All aspects of a student’s education are up to us. Together we’ll set learning goals and chart the course, curating the most relevant and engaging projects and learning resources as we go.
Addressing the unique needs of profoundly gifted and 2e learners
Our educators are trained to address the unique academic, social, and emotional needs of highly and profoundly gifted and 2e learners, for instance by pairing advanced learning resources (like The Atlantic magazine, or a Johns Hopkins CTY course) with whimsical, inquiry-based teaching approaches (like creating our own Mad Libs to learn grammar, or pretending to be “Time Detectives” as we inspect historic photographs for context clues).
Socially, our small-group classes and student clubs offer safe, structured opportunities to practice collaborating with 2-to-4 peers, grouped by ability — often a first for profoundly gifted students, who have long searched for a learning community that feels like home. We use Michelle Garcia Winner’s social-thinking framework to guide student behavior and encourage genuine social connection.
By practicing mindfulness and expanding their social-emotional vocabulary, our students develop self-awareness and a growth mindset, and find a balance between challenging themselves and offering themselves grace. Students who especially identify as being gifted can benefit from learning that perfectionism and attachment to “being right” can be limiting, a lesson we foster through playfulness and opportunities for academic experimentation. We believe it’s important to learn the discipline of coloring inside the lines — and also to develop the creativity and courage to eclipse the lines.
With discovery-based learning, students come alive
Discovery-based learning is an approach where students actively explore and investigate topics, solve problems, and construct their own understanding. They use critical thinking, inquiry, and hands-on experiences to learn, often working with autonomy and collaboratively. This method emphasizes self-discovery and active engagement over passive learning.
As longtime educators, we understand that learning extends far beyond the classroom. While Eclipse Academy class sessions happen online, teachers seek out opportunities for students to explore, and apply their learning to, the physical world. Our Biology students venture into their backyards, collecting specimens, moss, and rocks for terrariums. Teachers devise experiments and projects to expand upon and reinforce local museums’ exhibits. Students, aspiring to any number of careers, secure internships with the guidance of their Eclipse teachers, who integrate their on-the-job experiences into custom-made class projects.
Supporting families, building a global gifted community
To create an environment where gifted learners can flourish, a family-systems approach empowers students and parents to set goals and boundaries, meet their needs, and strengthen family bonds.
With parents, we share valuable insights and strategies to navigate educating gifted and 2e learners, especially on the interplay between giftedness and 2e matters such as anxiety, obsessiveness, ADHD, and Autism. Among students, we foster an expanded social-emotional vocabulary, self-awareness, a growth mindset, and curiosity.
While we’re known for our 1-to-1 sessions, we’re also building a thriving learning community at Eclipse Academy — a diaspora of profoundly gifted peers, from California and Toronto, to Singapore and Costa Rica. Though separated by continents, they join together online at regular intervals to learn and laugh. With 1-to-1 sessions and small-group classes based on ability, our students and teachers really get to know one another and develop genuine rapport. Some Eclipse Academy families have even begun planning summer vacations together, often based around the Davidson Institute camp.
Gifted students deserve a full childhood, too
At Eclipse Academy, we believe that every student has a right to an intellectually challenging, limitless education — and also, a right to a full childhood that’s joyful and developmentally appropriate.
These two goals — profound academic achievement, and an unhurried childhood — need not be at odds. In fact, it’s our mission at Eclipse Academy to unify the two.
