Who We Are
Think of Grow Scholar as your one-stop-shop for your eLearning needs. We offer 5 days a week, full-year homeschool curriculum, in English and Algebra I for grades 6-12. In addition, one out of the five days is taught via Zoom or Google Meet with a certified master educator for 1.5 hours. In addition, we offer self-taught non-traditional classes like financial literacy, yoga, grammar, and mental health. We also offer, for free, all grading and feedback for all of our courses.
We’re not your average curriculum company. Our kids love learning our curriculum because there’s no BS around it. Students in ELA will solve problems that will deal with their communities; students will play Jeopardy, Battleship, and create posters in Algebra I, we have students in middle school becoming published authors, and with our new art therapy class kids can learn different ways to improve themselves. We’ve got college 101 classes (coming soon!), basic financial classes, and even teach teenagers how to become entrepreneurs.
We’re in this to help kids grow, to provide them opportunities to get out of the deathly life-cycle of poverty and learn how to manage their feelings and emotions healthily and consistently. We do this for the kids and we’re in this together to win it. Nothing more and nothing less. We’re in this to help kids GROW!
Meet the Founder
Erica Hoffman, M.Ed. & M.S.
Before opening Grow Scholar, I was the youngest principal in New Jersey, a curriculum writer, coach, and master educator but the politics killed me...I wasn't going to allow them to kill my spirits though. I won many awards and my urban students smashed every negative statistic there was to imagine. They even had the highest projectile scores in English for 3 years in a row. Providing opportunities that allow students to learn, observe, and grow are my specialties.
For the past two years, I've delved deeply into eLearning; mastering the process of what is needed for a highly-effective curriculum and how to keep all learners engaged for a long(er) period of time. I also became an author of 100+ short stories for standardized testing, wrote a book with the director of Napoleon Dynamite, and wrote 300+ courses of virtual curriculum for school districts across the nation. Friends say I'm obsessed and they are probably more than right. I am honestly just sick and tired of kids failing and now more than ever I'm ready to help our communities receive what they deserve.
Our mission is to provide an affordable, yet highly-rigorous curriculum for ALL learners. I believe that a highly-effective virtual curriculum should provide real-life engagement. In addition, creating hands-on projects and as much kinesthetic learning as possible is also needed. Grow Scholar is an online space where students can experience quality and personal attention. Providing opportunities, breaking the cycle of poverty, and decreasing education gaps are of utmost importance to me. All of our educators are certified and highly effective - they love to teach and learners love to learn from them.
Finding an online school or a homeschool curriculum that is right for you and that also you can trust can be challenging. I want to personally take that stress from you and transition it into being at peace knowing you've got people behind your back that will do everything they can to ensure success for your child.
We are here to serve and help all learners grow. I so look forward to meeting all of you. And if you have any questions, please email me at [email protected] or call/text 201.988.2358, and/or follow me on IG for behind-the-scenes of how I write curriculum and why it's important @erica2745.
Yours in education,
Erica Hoffman, M.Ed. & M.S.
Founder