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In "Drawing & Creative Practice", students will improve their drawing abilities and come to understand the idea of "creative practice" and its effects on how we create art. Students will enhance their observational skills and understanding of the world at large. Together with classmates, students will analyze artwork from a number of artistic arenas (including fine art, illustration and entertainment design) and evaluate its function, appeal and success. In Socratic-style discussions, everyone will share their artwork and learn the culture of critique and how to respectfully discuss art. There will be reading, writing, speaking, and drawing every single class.

"Digital Art" is a foundational art course designed to introduce students to digital painting as well as art theory surrounding illustration, concept art and more. This course will introduce the steps, tools and layer modes commonly used in digital art through assignments that cover character art, animals, item design and special FX. The professional art programs discussed will include Photoshop, Procreate, and Clip Studio. Students will engage in critique sessions and learn to discuss both their own art as well as images created by working artists. By the end of this course, students will have a reliable digital painting workflow and the necessary skills to produce digital art that is measurable to industry standards.

You have just inherited $100,000! The stipulation is that you can't spend your money, yet; you must invest it in the stock market until you turn twenty-one. The mission: familiarize yourself with the stock market and personal finance and then decide on what would be some good investments. Manage a virtual $100,000 stock portfolio and invest stocks, bonds, mutual funds and ETF’s found on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq over a 6-week period. If you want to learn more about how to manage your personal finances, understand how the stock market works, and learn how you can invest, then this class is for you!

For those of you who have a fear of public speaking or want to improve on your argumentation skills, come learn to prepare, organize, and present a speech in front of an audience and develop the argumentation skills to win every debate. You will practice a variety of speech formats, learn formal and informal public speaking techniques for audience, purpose, and occasion, use research and writing skills to support selected topics and points of view across a range of disciplines and sources, and experience the magic of becoming more confident in front of an audience so that you can win every argument!

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Movies have the power to transport us to amazing times and places providing pleasant distractions from everyday life. Comedies make us laugh, dramas make us cry and thrillers make us think. For over a century, a genre of movie that has inspired the imagination of the masses is science fiction. Real scientific theories infused with the fantasy of Hollywood have thrilled and enthralled audiences from black-and-white horror movies like, “Frankenstein” to disaster films like, “Twister.” We are asked by Hollywood to suspend reality; to suspend disbelief and accept what we are seeing on the silver screen is possible. But sometimes, it isn’t that easy to do.

We have all had experiences where we question the reality of something happening in a movie. I love Indiana Jones, but I was definitely forced to question his ability to survive a nuclear explosion. In this science elective, those types of questions will be asked, analyzed and discussed. Scientific inaccuracies in Hollywood movies have been around since the dawn of movies; sometimes intentionally to add dramatic effect and sometimes unintentionally. We will watch movies like: Jurassic Park, The Day After Tomorrow, Star Wars, and others to question the scientific possibilities in the movies. Is it conceivable to bring dinosaurs back from extinction? Can climate change cause an ice age? Is it viable to build a lightsaber?

These questions and more will be considered in this fun and engaging scientific adventure. You will learn about science in this class, but you will also gain valuable life skills like: thinking critically and creatively, articulating an argument based on research and the ability to critique fallacies. Your communication and research skills will be enhanced as you construct an argument for or against a scientific event in movies and support that argument with credible evidence. This course focuses on enhancing your reading, writing and discussion skills while watching awesome movies. The culmination of the course will be you choosing a scientific movie of your own and creating a project or research paper critiquing the science of the movie. By the end of the course, you will have mastered objectives related to creating scientifically literate citizens. Please join me as we travel a galaxy far far away, come face to face with prehistoric creatures, strive to survive cataclysmic climate disasters and so much more.

Prerequisite: None. This class is available to all students.

Special Requirements: A permission slip listing the movies that will be watched and discussed in class will need to be completed by a parent/guardian in order to participate in the course.

Contact us at admissions@thoughtandindustry.com.

Network courses represent an exciting opportunity for you to meet Guides and students across our entire program and to work with industry experts to do deep work in an area of interest for you. 

ATI Network Courses 

Network courses represent an exciting opportunity for you to meet guides and students across our entire program, and to work with industry experts to do deep work in an area of interest for you. 


A 6-week introductory course for high school students interested in working with and educating young children. In this course, you will learn to facilitate the development of children from birth to 3 years old and study with some of the best Montessori trainers in the world. Students will receive an Early Years Teaching Certificate upon completion.


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The Early Years Teaching Certificate is a competitive program designed for individuals who want to:

Get hands-on experience teaching young children

Study with expert trainers in the theory and history of Montessori education

Build leadership skills and work experience for college applications or personal resumes

Accelerate a career in education, child psychology, or working with children in any field

Be a role model and make a difference working with young children

Over the duration of this 6 week course, you'll participate in live virtual small-group sessions as well as in-person immersive learning at a Guidepost Montessori school. Supported by trained Montessori guides, you will observe, discover, and directly teach these young students. You will explore all aspects of a Montessori classroom, from the routines of the day to the materials on the shelves. This immersive experience will be supported by virtual check-ins and reflection opportunities with your peer group.

Have you ever thought about how humans learn to learn? Do you ever think about being a teacher, or wanting to making an impact through education? In this course, you will learn about the physical, cognitive, social and emotional needs of children, and the role each plays in supporting their healthy development.

Course material is prepared and delivered by The Prepared Montessorian Institute, a leading training centre for Montessori education worldwide. Led by world-class trainers, you will analyze and discuss questions surrounding the outcomes of early childhood education.

Upon completion of the 6-week course, you will receive a Certification in Early Years Education from the Prepared Montessorian Institute. This course is an excellent foundation for pursuing a post-secondary degree in education, child development or psychology, or further teaching diplomas and accreditations.

We blend theory and practice by intentionally integrating real practice into theory classes and seeing how the ideas raised in the courses manifest in real classrooms. This program includes a field placement component where you will gain practical, hands-on work experience in a school.

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Maria Montessori was not just the first woman to ever become a doctor in Italy. She was also a groundbreaking education philosopher. She worked in the poorest areas of Rome, with children who were thought to be "unteachable." It was with these children that she developed a theory of human development that continues to inspire educators and schools around the world. 

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Over the duration of this 6 week course, you'll participate in live virtual small-group sessions as well as in-person immersive learning at one of our Guidepost Montessori schools.


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A 6-week summer course for high school students interested in working with and educating young children.


Early Years Teaching Certificate

An online program of guided self-study in the history of industrial civilization for high school students.

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The rapid rise in living standards over more than two hundred years can be seen all around us, but is often taken for granted. What explains this ascent? What innovations enabled it, and who were the innovators?

Learn about manufacturing from blacksmiths to the assembly lines; about power from water wheels to combustion to electricity; about food from famine to industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops; about disease from basic sanitation to medicine.

This program will explore: what problems, challenges and hardships in life and work were faced by people in earlier generations and centuries? And how did we solve those problems through science, technology, and invention?

Your learning will be supported by instructors who will help you develop your reasoning and research skills. You’ll also have the chance to engage ideas with a community of like-minded peers.

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