At a Glance
Professional Development
Blue Ridge Christian Academy has the philosophy of teaching all to teach all.
our Blue Ridge applies its philosophy for lifelong learning to its faculty and staff, as well as its students. Blue Ridge faculty and staff receive training in the latest developments in neuroscience to ensure that we are offering our best teaching to our students.
In order to support our unique approach to the classroom, every teacher at Blue Ridge receives training in Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE). FIE is a series of structured exercises that individually focus on specific cognitive areas, including analytic perception, comparison, classification, spatial and temporal orientation, and more.
With the benefit of FIE, Blue Ridge teachers are equipped to identify and respond to individual student learning strengths and weaknesses.
In addition, our faculty are required to identify and review the latest content that applies to their areas of particular expertise. This training and professional development ensures that our teachers are the best they can be for our students.
Class Size
Class sizes in the elementary and secondary average 14 students. This ideal class size allows the faculty to identify each child’s gifts and interests and guide each student to recognize who they are created to be and to learn how to transfer that knowledge to their classwork and beyond to everyday life.
Our unique approach to the classroom results in Blue Ridge students becoming independent, lifelong learners, capable of becoming the best version of themselves.
Faculty
Our administration and faculty are experts in their respective fields. As important as that is, their first priority is the interest of your child. At Blue Ridge, your child is not a test score, nor a just one of many. Every teacher at Blue Ridge Christian Academy receives annual training in Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) and topics of interest and development in neuroeducation and social-emotional learning. This provides the foundation for our unique approach to the classroom that goes beyond the curriculum to be a full, intentional approach to the education of each individual child.
Blue Ridge believes in teaching all to teach all. The faculty at Blue Ridge approach their classrooms as educational therapists, identifying the best course for learning for your child. Their FIE training focuses on developing and modifying cognitive areas such as analytic perception, comparison, classification, orientation, and more.
In addition, teachers are trained as mediators in the classroom, promoting a Socratic, collaborative, and creative approach that assists students in becoming independent, lifelong learners.
Blue Ridge Cognitive Center
At Blue Ridge we believe that inclusion goes beyond vulnerable learners to ensure that all learners are included. Blue Ridge developed the Cognitive Center inside the school as a lifeline to students needing one-on-one support. The Cognitive Center provides educational and social-emotional therapy, executive functioning coaching, and other support to students.
There are less than 25 NILD education therapists in Northern Virginia (population > 2.5 million). Blue Ridge has six licensed education therapists and three mediation specialists on staff who work with Blue Ridge teachers to identify and respond to student learning strengths and weaknesses. Therapists work directly with students that require more intensive support. These additional services are available to students who are identified as needing supplemental support in the classroom.
Efforts are coordinated between the on-campus Cognitive Center and Blue Ridge faculty to ensure that classroom instruction and therapy complement and build upon one another.
Academic Calendar
The school year is divided into four quarters of approximately 9 weeks each. A report card is issued at the end of each quarter.
Parents are formally updated about their child’s progress at the end of each marking period.
Blue Ridge utilizes Gradelink software so that parents can monitor their learner’s grades, homework, and upcoming assignments on a day-to-day basis.
College and Universities
Blue Ridge seniors have a 95% acceptance rate at the college of their preferred choice.