ALA Provides Academic Restoration

At ALP, we utilize a personalized system of instruction that promotes student ownership in the learning process.  With the support of certified teachers in a traditional classroom setting, students leave ALP having gained knowledge, skills, and confidence. This empowers them towards academic achievement and becoming lifelong learners.

ALP is accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools and the Utah State Office of Education. Credits earned at ALP will transfer to high schools, colleges, and universities throughout the United States and internationally. Students near completion of their graduation requirements can complete and receive an accredited High School Diploma while at ALP.

Academic Philosophy

Character must come first.  The current trend in public education is to foster character education through required courses and service hours.  ALP promotes Christ-centered character education, first, through the proven core values: accountability, responsibility, integrity, honesty, hard work, discipline. Once students learn to value themselves and others, they improve their behavior, and academic improvement is a natural consequence.

Our purpose is to strive to fulfill God’s will in every way:
to purely serve the needs of others with regards to body, mind and soul;
to bring to pass the restoration of the family for the glory of God;
and
to be a legacy of truth, honor, and integrity.

At Abundant Life Prep student-paced learning allows students to accelerate their progress in courses that they are strong in and take the extra time needed for more difficult subjects.  Core credit is granted when students master the content, not when they've merely spent seat time in class.

Mastery Learning

Most school settings are driven by timelines.  This creates a teach-test-and-go-on climate that is not conducive to struggling students.  If a student gets a D on chapter 1, they move on to chapter 2 with little feedback on how to improve.  This continues from chapter to chapter avoiding the real issue for most struggling students --- learning how to learn.

ALP focuses on the techniques and strategies that will make the student successful in the learning process. Students must pass tests and assignments with 80% or better.  This allows teachers and students to focus on the student’s learning technique, to improve study skills and test preparation strategies as they retake tests as needed to master the content.  As study skills and ability increase, student confidence in the learning process improves, thus allowing students to develop newfound positive attitudes about school.

Through our fully accredited and professional educational program, ALP restores the unmotivated student to the path leading to college. ALP uses an online “self-paced” educational platform where most students are able to advance at more than twice the rate of a regular public school setting. Due to rebellion or lack of focus and motivation, many of the students who enroll into ALP suffer from a major deficiency in credit accumulation. To be successful academically, they need to catch up. Fortunately, while at ALP, most of our students are able to focus and get back on track.

The ALP educational program is based on “mastery”, meaning that the student “masters” each component of each class before moving on to the next. Each class is broken down into small sections where they are able to grasp the material and score well on the self-paced tests. Our students don’t test until they’re ready, and there is plenty of time to finish each test. As a matter of fact, our teachers don’t allow a student to take a test unless they are confident that the student has studied well and learned the material. Our students actually begin to like school again (some begin to enjoy school for the very first time). ALP provides the students with certified teachers who function as individual tutors (one-on-one instruction and support) rather than classroom instructors, thus giving personal attention to the student in need.

ALP is a powerful Christian leadership school utilizing accredited academics (accredited by Northwest Association of Accredited Schools), advanced leadership curriculum, and Christ-centered discipleship teaching, (including local, national, and international “mercy ministry” outreach projects).  This curriculum and these activities give many opportunities to turn the hearts of our students back to Jesus as they are taught to give back to others from a “servant’s heart.” ALP provides familial and academic restoration through a 9 to 12 month advanced program delivered in three phases (TRIMESTERS). Moreover, our students are restored academically, returning home ready to continue on with their course work, and/or go on to college.