ONE ROOM LEARNING LLC
CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA

The One Room Learning Educational Experience Welcome to an exciting educational opportunity for homeschool students in the Southwest Florida area. First opening its doors in the Fall of 2013, One Room Learning provides a place for students at all levels to study together in a challenging integrated program, personalized for individual learners. The educational experience at One Room Learning is structured around three of the most important benefits of more traditional homeschooling: flexibility, self-education and interdependent study. An emphasis on family relationships fuels the focus on flexibility, and One Room Learning allows homeschooling families to maintain their diverse schedules while still enjoying the opportunities that come with participation in a classroom. Following a unique split-week learning plan, One Room student members are able to enjoy a program of study that is self-paced, integrates with family life and leaves them without the worry of “getting behind.” One Room Learning is intentionally counter-cultural and focused on equipping homeschool students to be self-educating life-long learners, while allowing them to work alongside others in interdependent study. With the dawn of the information age, tomorrow’s leaders must be innovative thinkers, rabid readers, prolific writers and able to interact beyond their peer group. The One Room environment is an incubator for developing those traits through research and service projects, extensive reading and writing, peer-review, student mentoring and collaborative study. Students are encouraged to pursue their interests within various academic disciplines, and have opportunities to pass along their educational discoveries to others. At One Room Learning, traditional testing is kept to a minimum. Students learn to remember and use information in various academic disciplines through games, journaling, class discussions and oral or written assessments. One Room Learning students are challenged to develop critical thinking skills, make and learn from mistakes, and welcome correction without focusing on academic failure. Courses are engaging, rigorous and push students to work their hardest to develop their understanding of the subject matter, enjoy learning, and glorify God with their minds. Lesson plans and assignments for the rest of the week are provided to parents by One Room teachers. These assignments are designed for flexibility and parents are given all the resources they need for a successful conclusion to the homeschooling week. What I love most about One Room Learning is the energy the students and teachers bring to every day. Whenever I show up on a school morning there is this buzz in the air, and the feeling that whatever the day holds it’s going to be fun, exciting, challenging and engaging. There is no “normal” day at One Room. Each day is a different learning adventure. ~ Sarah Ascol, One Room Founder and Director Sarah Ascol is the founder and director of One Room Learning. Sarah is the eldest of six siblings, and has been helping with their homeschooling since she was seventeen. She finished her homeschool education in 2002, then studied History and Vocal Performance at Florida Gulf Coast University. During college, Sarah worked as an English and writing tutor for university students and helped homeschool moms with their children’s studies. After graduation, she continued working with homeschoolers and taught several history courses for local and online students. In 2009, Sarah traveled to Central Asia where she homeschooled a tenacious group of ex-pat kids. On her arrival home, she began working as a private tutor and teaching writing and history classes for homeschoolers before founding One Room Learning in 2013. The 2016-2017 academic year will be Sarah’s fifteenth year of teaching. During that time, she has worked with over 60 students in every grade K-12.In her free time, Sarah enjoys reading, writing stories and articles, mentoring young women, and coaching homeschool volleyball and basketball. She loves teaching middle schoolers at her church, and adores hanging out with her niece, Emi, and nephews, Liam, Jason, Zeke and Isaac. In the Fall of 2016, Sarah will be returning to school to pursue a Master’s Degree in International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Focusing on National Security and Diplomacy, Sarah is excited to see the impact her studies will have on her students as she continues to teach Government remotely and oversee the teaching team at One Room Learning. Rebecca Sissons is the upper sciences and math tutor at One Room Learning. She was homeschooled through high-school, and graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2009 having studied Chemistry and Piano Pedagogy. Throughout college, Rebecca tutored advanced maths and sciences for fellow university students and worked in the FGCU biochemistry lab on a grant project funded by the Department of Defense. She continued her work in the lab after graduation, then moved to Indonesia in 2010. While in the Pacific Rim, Rebecca taught English as a second language and tutored an American high-schooler in Biology, Geometry and Chemistry. Back in the States a year later, she resumed her work in the FGCU lab, began teaching private piano students, and became a much-sought-after AP chemistry tutor in the Lee County area. Rebecca loves to play and coach basketball, compose and perform on the piano, spend time with her husband, Brad, and be Mommy to her boys, Liam, Jason and one due late in 2016. She serves in several capacities at her local church and enjoys passing on her love of math and science to kids of all ages. Grace Regnier is in her third year as a One Room Learning tutor focusing on core curriculum at the elementary level. Grace graduated from Edison State College with her Associates in Arts degree one week before her high-school graduation ceremony. A former homeschooler, at the age of seventeen she became the youngest student and first high-schooler to be inducted into the Edison State College Honor Society. She worked as a math and Spanish tutor during college and has since tutored reading and math for elementary homeschool students. Grace continues to pursue work in research and editing, serving as an administrative assistant to her father, a pastor and author. In her free time, Grace is a sports aficionado, following college basketball and football, and helping coach a homeschool girls’ basketball team. She loves to read, bake, play the violin, teach toddlers at her church, and spend time with her niece and nephews. Grace and her husband, Kerry, got married during the last school year, and have an adorable son, Ezekial.