Old Western Culture
Integrated humanities · 3 credits a year
Live, small classes · Grades 4–12, college credit and adult learning
Empowering families by liberating teachers
Kepler is a consortium of independent teachers, unified by a shared vision and an online platform, bringing classical Christian education to junior high and high school students.
120+courses
40+teachers
1,000+families
What is Kepler?
A marketplace for live, online classical Christian classes. Kepler is not a school: teachers craft and offer their own courses on a shared platform, and families choose the courses and teachers that suit them, one or two à la carte or a full Diploma Track. Registration through transcript happens in one place.
Roman Roads curriculum, taught live
Take our courses with a teacher
These Kepler classes are built on Roman Roads curriculum. Each meets live once a week with its teacher. Times, prices and places are on Kepler.
Latin
Picta Dicta Latin
How it works
A hand-crafted education
Kepler takes a college-style approach to how parents choose courses for their children, for grades 7–12 and beyond.
Choose your teacher
That means a choice of curriculum, learning style, teaching philosophy, price and schedule. Every teacher’s profile has a teaching philosophy and a statement of faith as well as a bio. There is no “Latin I, II, III”: Latin is taught by several teachers, with different methods and curricula.
Study through the week
Kepler uses a flipped classroom: students read, watch recorded lectures and write on their own schedule.
Meet live once a week
A small class meets its teacher online for about 90 minutes of Socratic discussion or recitation.
- À la carte coursesOne or two classes to fill a gap. Teachers set their own prices, without the administrative costs of a school.Find courses
- Diploma TrackA full course of study toward a Kepler high school diploma, with an Integrated Humanities course every year.The Diploma Track
- College creditJuniors and seniors can earn dual credit with Faulkner University through Kepler.Dual credit
- Kepler LifeClubs, student council, service and a student magazine, The Kepler Eccentric, for every student in a Kepler class.Student life
Philosophy of education · 11 minutes
Parents are the primary educators
Combining the firm belief that parents are the primary educators with a strong desire to equip and support parents in their task, Kepler exists to make a classical Christian education available, affordable, and accessible to everyone who wants one. Its short film We’ve Been Schooled! explains why.
What families say
From Kepler parents
Kepler helped challenge my student to think deeper and to express her thoughts openly with her teacher and peers. In Old Western Culture, she was challenged to share her opinion and support it.
Mr. Soderberg is an excellent teacher. He makes tough material engaging. [My son] was never bored during class, but rather looked forward to the weekly meetings.
Mr. Bohnet was terrific. As a mother I appreciated his professionalism and willingness to push students out of their comfort zone. The colloquy was a new experience for my daughter. She was terrified about the first one, but she went into the second one with confidence. These are the types of experiences that homeschooled students need more of to be prepared to go out into the world and work for people other than their parents.
This gave my philosophy-loving student a great outlet.
Core values
What every Kepler teacher shares
Every teacher is interviewed and background-checked, and affirms the Nicene Creed. Each is open about their faith, curriculum, experience and teaching philosophy, so parents know their options.
Merely Christian
We embrace those essential, common, and core beliefs left by Christ and the Apostles to the church catholic, the body of Jesus Christ on Earth, held through the ages by all orthodox Christian traditions alike.
Broadly Classical
We engage students in the pursuit and acquisition of the liberal arts, that knowledge which is pleasurable for its own sake, and which frees the mind and prepares the soul to be wise and virtuous.
Historically Conservative
We teach students to recognize, value and delight in the permanent things and pursue necessary and healthy change according to the contours of the natural and created order.
Meet the teachers
Teaching? Teach at Kepler
Have questions?
Kepler’s academic advisor can help you choose courses or plan a Diploma Track.