Start with high school. Expand opportunity backward.
KnowArk is developing a K–12 academy for refugee and displaced learners, beginning with a proposed high-school pathway. No new high-school cohort or diploma route is open. The four learning areas below describe the direction being built with future educators and partners.
Learning designed around the barriers refugees actually face.
Each offering solves a different break in the education journey. Together, they create a bridge from interrupted schooling to a recognized credential, economic mobility and higher education.
Online learning, supported locally.
KnowArk is exploring partnerships with refugee-serving centers that could pair portable learning with devices, connectivity, safe study space, educators and mentoring. Each site would need approved academic, operational and safeguarding arrangements before learner delivery.
Proposed High School Pathway
KnowArk is contacting ASU Prep Academy to identify appropriate decision-makers and explore whether a future partnership is possible. No agreement, approval, course access, credit, transcript, enrollment or diploma arrangement is in place. A learner cohort would require ASU Prep approval and the necessary contracts and authorizations first.
- Online access across locations and time zones
- Clear academic progression and student support
- A credible pathway toward college and career goals
TVET
Technical and vocational education and training connects learning to livelihoods. KnowArk’s TVET direction focuses on practical, market-relevant skills that can lead toward work, entrepreneurship and greater economic independence.
- Applied technical and digital skills
- Career exploration and employability
- Entrepreneurial thinking and problem solving
English as a Second Language
ESL helps students use English with confidence in classrooms, applications, workplaces and daily life. Learning is connected to real academic and career goals, not treated as an isolated subject.
- Academic and conversational English
- Communication for work and interviews
- Language support across other KnowArk programs
College Preparation
College preparation turns aspiration into a plan. Learners strengthen academic readiness, understand application processes, build compelling profiles and identify scholarship and university pathways.
- Academic readiness and study skills
- Application and personal-statement guidance
- Scholarship navigation and mentoring
Know what is available, what is developing and what to do next.
KnowArk is building these pathways in phases. An interest inquiry helps us understand learner needs; it is not an application or offer of placement. No new high-school cohort is open.
High school coursework
KnowArk is in exploratory outreach to ASU Prep Academy. No academic agreement or learner enrollment route is approved. Course access, tuition, credit, transcript and diploma terms cannot be offered unless the required approval and contracting are complete.
Register learning interest →TVET
Practical and career-connected learning is being shaped with future delivery partners. Specific fields, schedules, eligibility and credentials will be published as they are confirmed.
Discuss a delivery partnership →English language learning
KnowArk is developing English support connected to academic participation, communication and work. Levels, assessment and delivery formats remain under development.
Express interest in teaching →College preparation
Future support is intended to include academic readiness, applications, scholarship navigation and mentoring. Services will be announced only when staffing and delivery are confirmed.
Tell us what support is needed →From interruption to opportunity.
Meet the learner
Understand prior education, language level, goals and immediate barriers.
Create the pathway
Combine diploma, ESL, TVET or college-prep support around the learner’s needs.
Keep momentum
Use educators, mentors and partner centers to add human support to online access.
Open the next door
Prepare learners for graduation, work, technical training, college or scholarships.
Education should travel with the learner.
KnowArk combines online access with human support at partner centers. These images show the kinds of learning environments our model is designed to strengthen across refugee-serving communities.
Technology with a human guide
Digital content expands access. Teachers, mentors and partner centers turn access into progress, confidence and a path forward.
Learning through disruption
Flexible lessons help students reconnect after transport barriers, work obligations, relocation or other interruptions.
A pathway that keeps moving
Academic preparation, English support and future planning belong in one connected learner journey.