Mission
Our mission is to empower learning and transform education. We do this by: leading through innovation; inspiring learners; and partnering with schools and organizations.

About Our Programs
One Schoolhouse is a supplemental educational organization that provides courses and programs for students and adult learners.

We start with what all thriving schools do well: build authentic relationships. Recognizing that the student-teacher relationship forms the foundation for all learning, we position the learner at the center of the course and design curriculum backwards from the learner. Our classes are personalized, competency-based, and learner-driven.  

Our program uses personalized learning as our primary pedagogical approach.  In personalized courses, educators harness the power of technology to chart a new direction for content sequences, academic proficiencies, and student agency. We use a classic model of constructivist learning to promote student agency, where learning is relevant, hands-on, and inquiry-driven. Students are equipped with the capacity to measure their knowledge and skills, and then given some choice in what and how they learn. The tools of personalized instruction increase efficiency and effectiveness around differentiation, remediation, and project-based learning. We believe that choice increases engagement, and engaged students learn more.

Our girls’ program expands on the personalized approaches used in all classes, by adding what great girls’ schools do to create effective single-gender girls’ environments: connecting the girls to each other; requiring meaningful collaboration; encouraging expressions of creativity; and having the girls apply what they learn to real-world problems. Thus, our girls’ courses add four pillars to our personalized learning approach: Connection, Collaboration, Creativity, and Application.

In our professional development programming, we strive to be a partner for schools in developing best practice approaches both in the classroom and in their operations. We share with schools the pedagogical approaches that we have developed for our student courses so that schools can leverage our work to empower learning and transform education in their schools. We also work with partners in the independent school community to bring their expertise online.

Accreditation & Course Approval
Fully accredited with the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools & the Western Association of Schools and Colleges through December 1, 2025.

Please see specific course pages for course approval information. Core courses are approved by the NCAA; and AP Courses are approved by the College Board. Our status as an approved UC online publisher can be found here (note that the UC changed their system in 2019-2020 so that schools now "principal certify" our courses).

Membership
National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the National Business Officers Association (NBOA).

Organization
501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Location
One Schoolhouse is incorporated in Maryland, and keeps a mailing address at 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036.

One Schoolhouse acknowledges that our offices are situated on lands that have a very long history as a locus of residence, livelihood, traditional expression, and exchange by the Nacotchtank and Piscataway people, and we acknowledge that you are joining us today from many places, near and far, and acknowledge the traditional owners and caretakers of those lands.