Curriculum
A curriculum designed
for what matters in real life.
At Drew, students master the fundamentals first. Then they apply them through life skills, real-world projects, and disciplined use of AI that help capable students become capable adults.
Students advance based on mastery, not age. Instead of traditional grades, students progress through Learning Levels when they demonstrate mastery.
The Fundamentals
Reading, writing, and mathematical reasoning, delivered through TimeBack, our adaptive AI tutoring system that meets each student at their level and continuously adjusts as they grow.
The result: twice the academic content of a traditional year, in two focused hours each day.
Life Systems
Public speaking, financial literacy, AI competence, resilience, and the habits of effective adulthood, taught through practical simulations and Socratic discussion.
Life 101 — the skills of effective adulthood, taught on purpose.
Fitness & Movement
Younger students play. Older students train alongside Drew collegiate athletes and university performance staff.
A level of coaching rarely available in K-12 education.
Creator’s Studio
Cohorts identify real-world problems and build real solutions through multi-week and short-cycle Discovery Projects with measurable impact.
Students present and defend their work in front of live audiences.
Immersive Electives
Drew's collegiate departments open their doors: Foundational Arts, Stage & Story, History in Action, and Experiential Sciences+.
Interactive, Socratic, and taught by university faculty.
Curious how it all fits together?
Request the Drew School Curriculum Architecture
Meet the Platform Reimagining the School Day.
Two hours of focused fundamentals.
The rest of the day for everything else.
TimeBack is Drew's 1:1 adaptive tutoring system
The engine that lets students master reading, writing, and math in two focused hours a day, freeing the rest of the day for life skills, real-world projects, and the pursuits each student actually cares about.
Personalized To Each Student
TimeBack adapts to every learner along three dimensions:
Pace
Students move as fast as they're able and as slowly as they need. Concepts already mastered are skipped. Concepts not yet mastered are practiced until they are.
Content
Students engage more deeply with material that reflects their interests. A student obsessed with Harry Potter reads excerpts from the novels. A student who loves basketball learns ratios through game statistics.
Modality
Some students learn best from short videos; others from text, worked examples, or guided scaffolding. TimeBack matches each student's strongest channel.
The Adult's Role
A deliberate design choice, not a fallback. During TimeBack hours, expert academic coaches walk the room — answering questions, identifying where a student is stuck, and keeping every learner energized and on task.
The platform handles delivery.
The adults handle motivation, judgment, and care.
Beyond The Letter Grade
In an age when AI can write the essay, solve the problem set, and ace the multiple-choice quiz, the traditional A–F letter grade has quietly become obsolete — especially for students who aren't already self-motivated.
It rewards the wrong things, predicts less than it used to, and tells us almost nothing about whether a student showed up, worked hard, or can stand in front of a room and defend an idea.
Grit Scoring
Replaces the letter grade with four metrics that still matter in a world with AI: effort, rubric-based mastery, public presentation, and the ability to deliver content to a real audience.
Fall 2026 launch
Only 10-12 founding family spots available.