Our Mission
Our mission is to partner with the homeschool community to provide an innovative learning environment where every student is empowered to thrive. We embrace diverse learning styles and prioritize personalized education that fosters curiosity, critical thinking, and personal growth. Through hands-on, real-world experiences and a commitment to academic excellence, we nurture confident, compassionate, and capable individuals who are prepared to succeed in our evolving world.
The Hale Kula Model
Hale Kula, which translates to "Schoolhouse," is an independent learning center that offers an alternative homeschool model. We host a series of four ten week blocks, with vacation breaks built in. Classes are held four days a week from Tuesday through Friday. This approach leaves ample time for students to explore other activities, travel, and be with family. Our students are registered as homeschooled students, learning core subjects with peers in our collaborative environment.
We also offer weekly, on Mondays, a day of extracurricular classes, along with community-based experiential field trips.
Options include dance, theater, music, book clubs, novel writing, foreign languages and independent studies.
We will help guide you to all the necessary paperwork, record keeping, and testing options for state compliance so your student can move easily between the center, schools and home. Our goal is to provide quality, robust learning through a flexible program that honors the student, the family and the homeschool experience.
After-school hours tutoring sessions, both for small groups and individuals, are available for students from any school or other program.
All our programs can be delivered in a hybrid model if desired.
Our Founder
Gwyneth Wallace has been in education for over thirty years, as a classroom teacher, a school administrator, and a homeschool parent. She founded Hale Kula to offer a quality alternative to homeschooled students seeking small classes with differentiated learning. She believes strongly that there are as many ways to educate a child as there are children, and that homeschooling can offer a robust, in-person education model. She combines standards and performance-based curriculum with the homeschool model, partnering with families to provide flexibility and voice to create the best model for each student.