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Parent Guides

Choosing a school without guessing

These guides are written to be useful whether or not you ever enroll here. They are the questions we would want a parent to ask us — and every other school on the list.

Five guides, in the order most families need them: understand the week, choose a model, go see it with your own eyes, ask the safety questions that matter most, then see how a student's first 90 days actually unfold.

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The guides

A Quest-Based Week

How a quest-based week works

The day-by-day cycle behind quest learning — what a block actually looks like, where academics live, and how progress becomes visible to a parent.

  • The weekly rhythm from Monday planning to Friday showcase
  • Six diligence questions to ask any project-based program
  • Common myths, and what is true instead
Length
9 min read
Best for
Parents new to quest-based learning

Choosing a Model

Full-time vs. hybrid vs. homeschool support

A side-by-side comparison of the three enrollment models, including cost, weekly time commitment, and the family situation each one actually fits.

  • Comparison tables for time, cost, and family workload
  • Which model suits which kind of learner
  • How to switch models later without starting over
Length
11 min read
Best for
Families weighing more than one option

School Tour Checklist

What to look for on a school tour

Six things to watch, six questions that reveal culture, and a scoring routine that keeps your second visit comparable to your first.

  • What the first ninety seconds tells you
  • The clearest red flags on a walkthrough
  • A post-tour routine to run before the impression fades
Length
8 min read
Best for
Parents touring schools this season

Safety & Supervision

Questions to ask about safety and supervision

Six areas to observe, six questions that reveal real protocols, red flags to note, and a routine for comparing how schools keep students safe.

  • What supervision looks like during unstructured time
  • The emergency and anti-bullying questions that matter
  • Red flags that outweigh a friendly tour
Length
9 min read
Best for
Parents evaluating student protection and care

The First 90 Days

The first 90 days at JRX Academy

A full-time implementation guide: how a new student is known, baselined, and gradually handed ownership across three phases, with milestones families can hold us to.

  • Belong and Discover, Practice and Explore, Own and Contribute
  • Day 30, Day 60, and Day 90 deliverables in plain language
  • The four family checkpoints and what gets reviewed at Day 90
Length
12 min read
Best for
Newly enrolling full-time families

Student Guide

Your first 90 days at JRX Academy

A student-facing companion: how to belong and discover, practice and explore, own and contribute — with RESET, HEART, FORM, Life Atlas, Quests, and the Day 90 Cruz Check.

  • RESET, HEART, and FORM explained in student language
  • How to turn an interest into your first Quest
  • The Day 90 Cruz Check and what comes next
Length
14 min read
Best for
New and current Conscious Crusaders

Student Guide

The Conscious Crusader Field Guide

The full student handbook for learning, living, contributing, and leading at JRX Academy.

  • RESET, FORM, and VOID as one working system
  • HEART, the ten virtues, CO4, and Reading the Board
  • Weekly Cruz Check and Monthly Field Review practices
Length
45 min read
Best for
Enrolled Conscious Crusaders and their families

Student Guide

The Life Atlas Student Guide

Know yourself, read your life, and choose your direction with the seven Life Atlas areas.

  • Identity, Purpose, Values, Systems, Environments, Relationships, Legacy
  • How the Atlas works with AEIOU, RESET, and Quests
  • The Monthly Atlas Review and Life Atlas Cruz Check
Length
30 min read
Best for
Enrolled Conscious Crusaders and their families

Student Guide

The JRX Academy Quest Builder

A student guide to turning ideas into action: build a Quest, choose its size, locate it, launch it, and make your growth visible.

  • Move, Mission, and Expedition — and when a Quest should grow
  • Quest coordinates: Seven Quest pathway, Life Atlas, Home/Work/School/Play
  • Feedback, evidence, recognition, and the full Quest Cycle
Length
40 min read
Best for
Enrolled Conscious Crusaders and their families

Student Guide

The Body of Work + Mastery Guide

Practice, improve, and make your growth visible: what counts as evidence, how to use feedback, how to revise, and how mastery is actually demonstrated.

  • Act → Observe → Adjust → Repeat, and the JRX Mastery Scale
  • Archive, Feature, or Showcase — curating a Body of Work
  • Badges, Quest Completion Records, and the Portfolio Defense
Length
40 min read
Best for
Enrolled Conscious Crusaders and their families

Student Guide

The Leadership + Contribution Guide

Participate, serve, organize, lead, and steward: how leadership actually grows before anyone hands you a title.

  • The five-stage progression: Participate → Contribute → Organize → Lead → Steward
  • Initiative, delegation, accountability, correction, and support fade
  • The Weekly Leadership Check and the Leadership Cruz Check
Length
45 min read
Best for
Enrolled Conscious Crusaders and their families

Student Guide

The Team Quest Guide

Build together and carry your role: shared objectives, role agreements, communication, accountability, evidence, and Signature Projects like AmeriXa and the CLVER Games Association.

  • Team Experience vs Team Quest vs Signature Project
  • Role Agreements, primary/secondary roles, and Stretch Roles
  • The Team Stuck Protocol, Quest Health, and the Team Cruz Check
Length
50 min read
Best for
Enrolled Conscious Crusaders and their families

Student Guide

The Seven Quests Exploration Guide

Seven doorways, not seven boxes: explore Arts, Athletics, Leadership, Law, Academics, Hospitality, and Technology before choosing where to go deeper.

  • Moves, Missions, Expeditions, and roles for all seven pathways
  • The Exploration Matrix and separating interest from skill
  • The Pathway Cruz Check and building an exploration plan
Length
50 min read
Best for
Enrolled Conscious Crusaders and their families

Student Guide

The Learning How to Learn Guide

Focus, practice, ask for help, and use feedback: how to diagnose what kind of difficulty you are in and choose the next move that actually helps.

  • Confusion, difficulty, distraction, overload, skill gap, boredom, frustration — and the move for each
  • Deliberate practice, retrieval, spacing, and the Mastery Cycle
  • The Stuck Protocol, the Learning Cruz Check, and your personal Learning Playbook
Length
55 min read
Best for
Enrolled Conscious Crusaders and their families

If You Are Starting Today

A sensible order

  1. Step 1

    Start with the week

    Read the quest-based week guide first. It gives you the vocabulary for every other conversation you are about to have.

  2. Step 2

    Then pick a model

    Compare full-time, hybrid, and homeschool support against your family's actual calendar rather than the ideal one.

  3. Step 3

    Then go look

    Take the tour checklist with you. Visit at least two schools and score them the same way on the same day of the week.

  4. Step 4

    Ask about safety

    Use the safety guide to look past reassurance and compare real supervision, emergency readiness, and student-reporting systems.

  5. Step 5

    Then look ahead

    Once you have chosen, read the first 90 days guide so you know exactly what to expect in your student's opening months.

Enrollment

Ready to join a quest?

Pick your child's age group and we'll take it from there. Basic contact information only — no sensitive student records.

Student age group
  1. 1Choose an age group
  2. 2Tell us about your family
  3. 3We reach out with next steps