Curriculum Vendors - Parent Hawks' Nest

The Cottonwood School partners with numerous vendors to offer resources for our families. Please check the Curriculum Vendors catalog below to search for a specific vendor or curriculum.

Please note that this catalog includes both “Approved” and “In Progress” Curriculum Vendors. Families will only be able to request products in Procurify with “Approved” Curriculum Vendors. We have highlighted approved partners in green on the left side of the catalog for your convenience.

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Cottonwood Curriculum Vendors

ShillerLearning

ShillerLearning offers award-winning Montessori Math and Language Arts homeschool learning kits for 3-13 year olds.

Eureka Education

Eureka! Education by Cynthia

Eureka! Education by Cynthia offers Tutoring and Academic Coaching services for K-12 in all subjects. Virtual services ONLY.

Ciao Languages

Ciao Languages Offering live, online, foreign language lessons taught by experienced, native-speaking teachers! Individual and small group lessons available, supplemented by our online Learning Resource Center with teacher’s notes, slides, and digital exercises. Available in Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, German and other languages upon request!

USA Stars

USA Stars Grassroots soccer program: $250 for 3 month program- includes 2 jerseys, 2-1 hour practices a week Description: The USA Stars Grassroots program is a foundational program designed to create a learning environment that promotes joy, friendship, physical & emotional health. Fun, healthy introduction to the sport of soccer. Soccer-specific Physical Fitness. Introduction to small-sided games, shooting, foundational soccer skills and more. Age-appropriate skill acquisition and development for boys & girls, ages 5-11 years old. 2 trainings per week (1 hour each training) All experience levels are welcome

Nexbooks

Nexbooks We offer online, self-directed, and auto-graded courses, included math from grades 5-12, and 14 electives, including topics like: Tide Pools, Your First Car, Tools 101, Start Your Own Small Business, Reptiles & Amphibians, etc. All of our courses are video-based and super engaging! 🙂

Open Door Spanish

Open Door Spanish offers online small-group Spanish classes and tutoring over Zoom. Classes are fun, dynamic, interactive, and taught by an experienced and credentialed Spanish teacher. Free trial classes and sibling discounts are available! Please visit www.opendoorspanish.com for more information!

Kids' Club Spanish School

Kids’ Club Spanish School Live online Spanish class for kids! Our standardized curriculum follows the requirements set out in The Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning and is 100% immersive, no English allowed! Our dynamic “edutainer” teachers use their high energy and charismatic personalities to make the classes interactive and engaging.

Mihaljevic Soccer School

Mihaljevic Soccer School “Chess and Soccer” for boys and girls ages 7-17. 1 hour of Chess instruction followed by 1 hour of soccer instruction . Fridays 11:30-1:30, 4 classes per month.

A+ Tutoring

A+ Tutoring offers personalized online tutoring for pre-K to 12th grade students, including general education, special education, and ESL. With flexible scheduling, 30-minute sessions or longer, and consistent weekly support, your child can thrive academically. Enjoy a FREE lesson with your first purchase order!

The Swimstitute

The Swimstitute offers indoor P.E. for students of all ages. We offer 3 levels of SwimFit, a group lap swim class designed to improve technique and total body conditioning, offered mornings and afternoons. We also offer private swim lessons and coaching for beginning to advanced swimmers, scheduled by appointment.

My Tutoring Partners

My Tutoring Partners tutors all subjects and all grades. We personally match tutors to meet the student’s and family’s needs.

Tawny Louise's Music Studio

Tawny Louise’s Music Studio Hi! My name is Tawny and I’ve been teaching for 10+ years to students of all ages and skill levels in violin, viola, ukulele, and piano. I have a passion for teaching and want to give students a nurturing environment to build their skills and to experience the joy of making music. I have a few more spots available in my online studio starting this Fall. You can see some of my work at tawnylouiseharrison.com

Viking Workshop

Viking Workshop Open since 2018! Hands on learning! Woodworking, Art, Stained Glass, Ceramics, Resin, Science and so much more. Small groups! Brand new beautiful location in Sacramento.

My Learning Unlocked

My Learning Unlocked At My Learning Unlocked, K-12 students receive tailored holistic educational support focused on diverse learning needs and individual growth. • In-person or online • 1:1 sessions • small group • full semester courses • Math, Language Arts, Reading, and College Prep. Experience a supportive and inspiring environment customized to help your child unlock their full potential.

Whole Life Co.

Whole Life Co. provides engaging classes for students K-8 to enrich the whole child, creating joyful opportunities for students to connect their head, heart, and hands while exploring their interests and discovering their passions. (E.g. music, arts, cooking, dance, tumbling, STEM, writing, gardening, and more!)

EMH Sports

EMH Sports offers skill-based P.E. instruction for the homeschool network for grades K-12th including In-person classes and virtually. For our in-person classes, each month is a new sport that students can learn. For our virtual classes, we offer ASL, Martial Arts, Break Dancing, Hip-Hop, Yoga, Fitness, and much more! Our simple premise is to create a fun and safe environment for kids under the supervision of trained instructors.

The Animation Course

The Animation Course is now taking registrations for our Fall Courses! Chad Stewart, former Disney animator and veteran home school Dad, offers a 12-week LIVE – online Animation Course (ages 11-18). The Animation Course can teach your child to animate and draw!

El Dorado Dance Academy

El Dorado Dance Academy Offering the best classes in the art of dance to the El Dorado Hills community and beyond!

Creative Solutions Tutoring

Creative Solutions Tutoring provides exceptional tutoring; In-Home or Online. All subjects, languages, test prep, coding, music & more! Using multi-sensory integration techniques and other enrichment learning methods. Our tutors are experienced, patient, kind and caring. We help build life skills and achieve academic success for every student.

Lotus & Ivy

Lotus & Ivy provides an educational experience that is developmentally appropriate, experiential, nourishing, and academically challenging for the whole child, “head, heart, and hands.” Live virtual lessons are the cornerstone of our program. We believe there is unending value in live engagement between the teacher and classmates each day.

Viktoriya's Music Piano Academy

Viktoriya’s Music Piano Academy Individual Playing Lesson, Musical Theory, terminology, history. Written musical symbol interpretation with transcription assignments Composing and playback from soundtrack (for my advanced students). All lessons are available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian (with cross-reference).

Mathology

Mathology Whether your goal is to excel in specific math concept or improve overall math proficiency, Mathology is here to support you every step of the way.

Outschool

Outschool is an innovative education platform that offers a variety of engaging, small-group classes online. Outschool classes give kids the unique opportunity to explore their interests via interactive live classes with thousands of experienced, independent educators. Outschool offers 140,000+ classes that include core curriculum, enrichment opportunities, tutoring and more!

International Gymnastics Centre

International Gymnastics Center We teach beginning, intermediate, and advanced gymnastics and tumbling. We strive to put the athlete first and help our student athletes reach their physical goals.

Vizio Makeup Academy

Vizio Makeup Academy offers beginner courses in cosmetology makeup, SFX prosthetics, and facials, providing certification and a gateway to in the beauty industry.

theCoderSchool FOLSOM

theCoderSchool FOLSOM Through our code coaching program, we teach kids coding in a low ratio of 2:1 and 1:1. Our focus is on building the skills needed by enhancing their logical thinking and problem solving. We use SCRATCH, PYTHON, JAVA, C++, C# and HTML. We also offer code class for students with a ratio above 3 students We offer various school break camps and workshops to enhance kids learning experience.

Kids Learning for Life

Kids Learning for Life We have created Film Unit Studies, a family-style unit study curriculum that provides lessons in Language Arts, math, science, and social studies plus the arts and movie magic!

Pipe Dreams Farm

Pipe Dreams Farm offers a private tailored horseback riding experience for each of our students from ages 5-85. Owner Susan Wilcox has over 40 years of experience.

Well -Trained Mind Academy

The Well-Trained Mind Academy provides synchronous online instruction for middle and high school students. WTMA offers classically-based classes as well as tutoring. Subjects include expository and rhetoric writing, math, world languages, high school science with labs, and fine arts. All classes are taught by highly-qualified and enthusiastic instructors.

First Choice Tutoring

First Choice Tutoring One-on-one tutoring in all levels of Math (K-8 Math, Algebra, Geometry), Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English, History and SAT/ACT Test Prep. Math and Science enrichment courses for homeschool students. Study skills courses to help students boost grades.

Alec's Chess Club

Alec’s Chess Club exists to help children reach their highest potential through the game of chess. This objective is achieved in three primary ways: Inspiring lessons, challenging tournaments, compassionate mentoring. Through these methods, each child will learn fundamental life skills that are transferable to anything they pursue.

Hands in Motion

Hands in Motion has been dedicated to serving the homeschool community for over 18 years. Our experienced teachers use hands-on project based learning. We strive to come along side the family to support students across a range of subjects, including sports, creative arts, writing, science labs, trades, history and hands-on building projects for grades 1st- High School. We invite you to join us in empowering your child’s learning journey by putting their “Hands in Motion.”

Advanced Piano with Olga

Advanced Piano with Olga Basic to advanced piano lessons, classical piano, jazz/blues, music lessons, music theory, composition, improvisation, solfege, arranging music, chords study.

BEAS Academy

BEAS Academy provides educational academic enrichment classes to grades K-6. Our classes are designed to support the different learning styles of our students and to grow their potential.

Schoolhouse Discoveries

Schoolhouse Discoveries Family-style, hands-on kits have over 20 activities in science, social studies, art, sensory, cooking, and language arts. Kits include a book, instruction guide, worksheets and some supplies.

Learn Beyond the Book

Learn Beyond the Book provides small-group, interactive, project-based, a-la-carte homeschool classes that covers all core subjects as well as electives such as Art, Music, Coding, Fashion design, Dance and Foreign Languages. Classes are taught by caring, patient, passionate teachers with expert knowledge in the subjects they are teaching.

Oz Academy of Music

Oz Academy of Music offers online, one-on-one music lessons from awarded graduates of Berklee College of Music! Accepting all levels, from beginners to very advanced students. Customized curriculum based on your interests. Flexible scheduling. New students get a free 30min lesson!

Firefly Tutors

Outstanding IN-HOME Online & Pod Tutoring for TK-12th graders. FIREFLY TUTORS are compassionate, caring college graduates who know how to help each student to reach their highest potential. We respect parents’ choice of curriculum. Upon request, a tutor will add enrichment material to build stronger comprehension, retention, and FUN!

Norcal Driving School

Norcal Driving School provides online drivers education course (all counties), online traffic violator school course (all counties) and behind the wheel drivers training to Antelope, Roseville, Rocklin, Granite Bay, Natomas, Carmichael, Citrus Heights, Arden, and Fair Oaks.

Wild Explorers Field Trips

Wild Explorers Field Trips organizes both group and parent-led field trips to exciting educational venues throughout the state, fostering curiosity and a love for learning. We provide customized educational resources tailored to each experience and manage all logistics, ensuring a seamless process for educators and parents.