14. EPIC Adventures produce Passionate Learning
EPIC Adventures are so appealing they ignite your child's interest and invite them into learning; even seemingly dull subjects come to life! They captivate and romance the hearts of your students to the quest for knowledge and saturate them with a life-long love of learning.
13. Imprint the EPIC Pattern of a Scholar
Students emerge from an EPIC education with the pattern of a scholar imprinted on their heart and habits. They are prepared to successfully pursue to the level of mastery any subject they desire.
12. Students acquire problem-solving, product-producing skills
"Intelligence is a problem-solving, product-producing capability." The Inquiry process repeatedly builds these skills.
11. An education through EPIC Adventures is generational
EPIC Adventures are the most brain-compatible way of learning. They become a way of life and second nature to learners who naturally desire to pass on this exciting way of learning. They emerge with the research skills, the pattern and the capability to create extraordinary EPIC Adventures for their own children. A second generation of EPIC Scholars are currently living phenomenal EPIC Adventures created by parents who are now passing on their brightly burning flame of passionate learning.
10. An EPIC Adventure instills Renaissance Thinking
EPIC Adventures help your children discover what true learning is all about as they are fully immersed in the depth and breadth of a subject and see clearly how it connects to many seemingly unrelated topics. In the process they internalize the unique, connective thinking that is the hallmark of a Renaissance mind.
9. An EPIC Adventure touches and stirs your children's hearts and captures their imaginations
Emotion is the gateway to the mind. Even those who claim logic is the bedrock of intelligence have brains that filter all incoming information through the emotional gate. EPIC Adventures stir your children's hearts and slip effortlessly past the emotional filter and drawing them into learning.
8. EPIC Adventures bring out a level of engagement and motivation uncommon in ordinary educational practices.
They ignite uncommon interest, motivation and engagement. Learning is not seen as a chore to "get over with," but instead a sought-after activity in its own right.
7. An EPIC Adventure is worthy of your children's precious time.
Why waste your children's precious growing years in an unbearable sea of boredom and meaningless busywork? YOU create the setting that captivates or alienates. Hand your children a quest for learning through an EPIC Adventure, and sink their efforts into an education worthy of their time (and yours).
6. An EPIC Adventure is a shared experience and builds powerful memory.
EPIC Adventures provide compelling, shared experiences, life-long memories, and long-term knowledge retention. The brain remembers easiest by associating knowledge with experiences. Your family will look back on the years and refer to them by the names of EPIC Adventures! One thought or reference brings back an entire year in vivid detail! The impact is unforgettable.
5. EPIC Adventures are multi-aged.
Your whole family shares a united quest as all are immersed in the theme of the EPIC Adventure, but each pursues the Inquiry work at their own level. This is powerful in several ways:
- Younger learners benefit from working alongside older siblings during group Inquiries and set their sights on higher achievement.
- Multi-aged siblings sometimes partner to work on an Inquiry and both benefit from the synergy.
- Each learner pursues their own personally chosen Inquiries on their own level.
4. Inquiry projects in the EPIC Adventure bring out individual talents and develop new ones.
During personal Inquiry work students fast-track understanding as they work with information using their unique talents, skills, modalities and intelligences. They access all six levels of thinking and stretch themselves into new areas of expertise.
3. Students see the application of learning to real life as they acquire and use skills in the context of meaningful Inquiry work.
Learners engaged in the great work of EPIC Adventures see patterns and connections across the usually separated subjects. They learn skills when they need them to accomplish meaningful Inquiry projects. This experience applies their learning to true pursuits and will serve them the rest of their lives.
2. EPIC Adventures promote independent research and accomplishment.
Each year students choose an individual yearlong research project from the theme topics of the EPIC Adventure. This intense effort builds research skills and expert status through independent investigation and accomplishment.
1. EPIC Adventures have far-reaching impact.
EPIC Adventures imprint the pattern of a scholar, an uncommon perspective, a solid foundation of knowledge, in-depth exposure to a vast smorgasbord of subjects and experiences from which learners draw forth life-long interests and purpose. They cast your child's gaze to possibilities, point their gifts to their Vein of Gold, and spur them on to accomplishment, success and contribution.
EPIC
Vast and captivating Exposure to information and examples ignites interest,
students recognize and inherit Patterns of information and behavior
as they work with the information through meaningful Inquiry projects and build programs of competency that lead to the creation of new ideas and
Contribution as they share their gifts with the world.
E - Exposure
P - Patterns
I - Inquiry
C - Contribution
EPIC, an acronym that names the age-old pattern of a scholar repeated over and over each time an interest leads to Contribution.
Are you ready to imprint your children with the pattern of a scholar?
Are you ready to ignite the flame of passionate learning?
Copyright - Karen Kindrick Cox 2011, Kindrick-Cox Unlimited, LLC
