At Vita, our unique weekly schedule is designed to maximize both academic growth and real-world learning. With a Tuesday-to-Friday structure, students dive deep into core subjects, hands-on projects, and personalized learning experiences—allowing for greater focus, flexibility, and balance. This innovative approach ensures that learners have time to master essential skills while also engaging in internships, community service, and personal development, preparing them for success beyond high school.

Mondays

Mondays are work days and do not take place at Vita. Mondays is the day for your learner to practice learner-driven education and discipline. This would even include community learning. Your learner should have quarterly rocks (goals) written in their planner. They should be logging in what they are doing that day. You as a parent can support them with accountability.

Gratitude & Plan

All Vita community members do gratitude journaling. They write down 10 things they are grateful for. Next, they plan out their day using our SMART Planner Process.

Academics

Learners work on STEM or Humanities, in 2 hour learning blocks. Learners use a variety of online college courses, AI-driven curricula, collaborative project-based learning quests, and AI to master core academic subjects. You might see a group of learners working on ASU math, with an educator providing small-group tutoring when requested, and you may see a student who is ahead and exhausted taking a nap.

Community Recharge

Vita learners lead a community recharge or brain break. This is typically a whole group brainstorm, meditation, brief discussion, or even a small power nap to recharge learners for a second round of academic work.

Lunch

All community members help prepare lunch and at Vita, we have weekly rotating teams. Learners cook the food with staff supervision and support! This is one of the coolest things to witness at Vita.

Coaching & Life Skills

During this time, we have our 1:1 coaching sessions, guest speakers, life skills that might take the entire week, mastermind meetings on Fridays, and independent work time for learners to work on their Dream Goals.

Clean Up & Shout-Outs

At the end of the day, learners work in their teams to clean the school. Each team is assigned an area they are responsible for. The day ends with a big shout-out circle, which also serves as a student-led town hall. Learners shout-out their peers or themselves for positive impact or a job well done. It is a great way that Vita builds strong positive culture.