Current List of Centers
Becoming a Director - Do you want to be a licensed Aquinas Learning Program provider?
What are the steps to directorship?
1. Schedule an initial consultation with Aquinas Learning by filling out this DIRECTOR INQUIRY FORM. Send in an application to become a licensed director.
2. Learn the program: read the website information, get training, signing up for a semester or a year (ahead of selling the program to others), attend the summer Practicum training, and speak to a current director or member family.
3. You need a group - you can be a center with as little as 3-5 families (your core families). Start marketing the idea to them.
4. You need a location. Some have started in their own homes. Start-ups should look for at least 4-5 rooms plus a common area (for lunch/prayer), and a playground.
5. Jan/Feb of opening year - hold an Info Night for families in your community to let them know about your plans.
6. Jan/Feb of opening year - start collecting registrations & marketing to local Catholic homeschoolers (and Church bulletin)
7. Feb/Mar - Start looking for and hiring mentors / staff. Start firming up a contract at a location.
8. Feb/Mar - Business start up - accountant, business license, bank account, etc.
9. Mar-May - Meet with families for another “info night” (perhaps at the location you plan to hold center), a zoom meeting in the evening or weekend (so dads can join too), and offer a Summer Practicum with training videos. Have a summer registration session.
10. Hold a summer open house event or meet & greet event (bowling alley, pool, etc.)
11. Open your doors in the fall. Center often follow the Manassas calendar, so we can all share things in a timely manner, and that means starting with an Orientation Day on Labor Day Week, followed by “Week 1.”
Getting Started:
Parents purchase registrations from Aquinas Learning to the various levels of the curriculum their family requires. Parents then pay a separate tuition fee to the Center Director (you) to enroll and join your particular center. The tuition and fees charged by the center director depends on the cost of running that center, and is set by the director, not Aquinas Learning, LLC.
GET STARTED TODAY - Fill out this DIRECTOR INQUIRY FORM, and we will respond with an appointment for an initial consultation.
Introduction to Aquinas Learning
Our Philosophy of Education
Why a “classical” education? How do we define it?
We mean a Natural (how human learns) Catholic Scholastic (reasoning emphasized) Education (do draw out) & Tradition (to hand down)?
Aquinas Learning is a Catholic, classical, and scholastic curriculum, in that it places Christ at the center from which every subject/idea/topic is a spoke radiating from the hub, Christ, Truth Himself. It is scholastic according to our patron, St. Thomas Aquinas way of training and using reason in order to act based on right reason.