Integrating technology with Calvert’s tradition of excellence
What has changed are the educational tools available to homeschool students and teachers. Calvert incorporates the uses of technology where it improves the educational experience or teaches essential skills. Our lessons are built on the principle of subject integration—improving skills in one subject while working in another—which is the approach we have taken in bringing technology into our lessons: adding online resources to enhance Grammar and Science studies, developing optional CD enrichment courses, and offering online instructional support through Calvert Interactive in the middle school grades. Integrated opportunities At Calvert, we carefully select Internet-based resources to share with our families. In our Lesson Manuals, we direct students to Web resources with a mouse icon. Although our education professionals have explored the sites and selected them for their educational content, the Internet evolves rapidly and parental monitoring is always recommended. Expanded learning options online We also work with the publishers of our textbooks who offer additional online resources. Students enrolled in Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth grades, for example, can access a password-protected Internet site that offers—at no additional cost—numerous grammar exercises that are integrated with the textbooks. Students can complete the exercises online and obtain immediate computer-generated feedback on their work. 
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The fundamentals of education have not changed since Calvert School developed the first homeschool program in 1906. Reading, writing, mathematics, composition, the arts, science—mastering the skills of each is vital to the development of a child’s mind.
