Learning Approach
How Learning Works at Franklin Global
Our academic program has a comprehensive architecture.
A cohesive developmental
approach
The Franklin Global learning model helps learners establish strong intellectual foundations.
Program Design
Franklin Global is designed as a coherent program across grades 6-12, with an 18-week semester rhythm.
Core Curriculum
Our subjects are disciplined toolkits for discovery. They help structure learners’ understanding of the world around us.
Learning Outcomes
We want our learners to become more informed, knowledgeable, wise, trustworthy, and resourceful.
Future Pathways
Learners identify their direction, build a track record of contribution, and pursue opportunities to meet their goals.
The 5P learning cycle
Our learners experience a holistic education, from preparing knowledge to pursuing pathways.
01
Preparation
Building understanding through interpretation, inquiry, investigation, innovation, and integration, as modes of thought.
02
Practice
Using case method, design thinking, AI innovation, engineering, and venture-based approaches to solve problems.
03
Participation
Learning through relationships that use dialogue and shared school life, to ensure nobody learns alone.
04
Performance
Presenting through pitches, debates, showcases, and more to demonstrate work and make capabilities visible.
Pursuit
Making informed choices about college, career, venture, and impact, for life beyond high school.
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How does it all comes together?
See how learners grow and stay motivated every step of the way.
Learners in the zone
This environment is our adapted implementation of Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development.
01 Mastery-based
Skills just beyond your ability to tackle alone.
02 Skillful Tutors
Desk-side, pitstop crew to keep you in pursuit.
03 Peers
Other learners in the chase with you.
04 Dialogue
Scaffolding to set and reinforce learning.
Applied
Learners exercise knowledge through projects that address complex, real-world situations.
Foundational
Subjects cover an integrated body of knowledge that helps make sense of the world.
Discovery
Inquiry and investigation spur curiosity, making previously unknown things meaningful.
Learning
Learners build knowledge and experience to guide their future in college and career.
Discovery building blocks
Every subject at Franklin Global is rooted within the foundational architecture of inquiry.
Grammar
Grammar is the body of language that enables a subject to communicate meaning and value distinctly. It is concerned with the structure, parts, categories, and essential terms of what is being studied.
Logic
Logic is the system of reasoning through which a subject creates order and makes sense of the world it explores. It is concerned with the rules, relationships, conditions, and coherence of what is being studied.
Rhetoric
Rhetoric provides the cognitive frameworks or ways of thinking a subject uses to spur discovery and solve problems. It is concerned with the expression, communication, and presentation of what is being studied.
Dialectic
Dialectic is the debate stage a subject sets for its inquirers to examine positions and perspectives on what is discoverable. It is concerned with the testing, refinement, and advancement of rigor in a subject through exchange.
Dialectic
Dialectic is the debate stage a subject sets for its inquirers to examine positions and perspectives on what is discoverable. It is concerned with the testing, refinement, and advancement of rigor in a subject through exchange.
answers for families and learners
Got questions?
Find answers to common inquiries. Visit the broader FAQs section to discover more.
What makes Franklin Global’s learning approach different?
Franklin Global is designed as a coherent developmental model. Learning moves through a clear architecture of Preparation, Practice, Participation, Performance, and Pursuit. Each part of the experience supports the next.
This means learners do more than complete assignments. They build foundations, apply knowledge in meaningful contexts, grow in relationships with others, demonstrate visible capability, and move toward future pathways with direction.
Why does Franklin Global organize learning around discovery?
At Franklin Global, discovery is how learning becomes meaningful. Each subject is approached as a toolkit for inquiry, helping learners examine mystery, engage discontinuity, and derive meaning from what was previously unknown.
That is why the model places so much emphasis on Interpretation, Inquiry, Investigation, Innovation, and Integration as modes of thought. Learners are asked to receive information, work with it, question it, and use it in ways that build understanding and capability.
How does Franklin Global help learners move from schoolwork to future readiness?
Future readiness is built into the architecture of learning itself. As learners move through the 5P cycle (Preparation, Practice, Participation, Performance, and Pursuit), their growth becomes visible through their habits, capabilities, contributions, and demonstrations.
This means college, career, venture, and leadership pathways emerge organically. They are part of the same journey that is fueling learners academically and helping shape the story of who they are becoming.