NOW ACCEPTING STUDENTS FOR 12TH GRADE
EXPLORE: A Dual Credit Life Skills and Christian Worldview Program for High School Seniors
Practical Life Skills. Hands-On Experience That Matters.
UNBOUND HAS BEEN FEATURED IN:
Give Your High School Senior the Skills Training, Interest-Led Experience, and Community They Need to Thrive Academically, Relationally, and Professionally
- Gain accountability, coaching, and a supportive, Christian community
- Build critical life and study skills and complete worldview training
- Develop personal ownership over life, work, and education
- Complete student-interest-led projects for real world experience
What is explore?
What is Explore?
Intentional Group Coaching
Each month in Explore, students complete four Coaching Modules and attend two Group Coaching Calls. Coaching Modules introduce students to a new coaching principle each month and require study, application, and reflection to complete. On Group Coaching Calls, students meet with 8-10 other students in their grade and a coach for mentorship and accountability, assignment and goal check-ins, and peer coaching.
What is Explore?
Engaging Courses and Book Studies
Each year in Explore students complete two 8-week life and study skills courses, 1-3 optional CLEP exams, and read two life skills books. Their life and study skills courses include short, engaging video lectures or demonstrations and immediately applicable reflection assignments. In addition to their courses, books, and CLEP exams, students complete 8-weeks of Christian worldview training. Explore courses, reading assignments, and training are intentionally designed to help students build critical thinking skills, learn how to apply principles and concepts in their own lives, and to reflect on their experiences as they seek to determine their next right step.
What is Explore?
Real-World, Hands-On Projects
At the heart of the Explore program are the student projects. As a project-based training program, Explore is designed to teach students how to learn by doing. Through their projects, students take everything they are learning in their courses, book studies, coaching modules, and coaching calls and put it into action. Projects are 8-weeks long, completed once per semester, and are fully student-interest led. Students receive a project guide that helps them brainstorm ideas and make sure their ideas meet the requirements of being personal, meaningful, relevant, and challenging based on their unique interests, passions, season of life, and comfort zone.
Program Breakdown
Explore is a 12th-grade dual-credit program that will help your student build practical life and study skills while earning college credit as they prepare for life after high school. Whether your student pursues college, a trade, or something else entirely, our goal is to give your student the tools, resources, and skills they need to launch into adulthood.
Explore runs for 10 months from August – May.
What's Included
- Explore Coaching Group
- Unbound’s annual student convention, APEX
- Bi-weekly live group coaching calls
- Course 1: Living Forward
- Course 2: The Noticer
- Optional: 3 CLEP exam vouchers
- Reading Assignments: In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day by Matt Batterson &
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
- Worldview Training: How to Think Like a Christian Part I or II by Thinking Out Loud
What Are The Results?
The goal of Unbound’s high school programs is to teach students to ask wise questions in a culture of assumptions, take action to create value, understand the context of their lives in God’s story, learn to live in the real world, and not just exist but rather thrive.
After their year in Explore, students will have an understanding of their core foundation and purpose. They will have cultivated the ability to reflect, ask good questions, and pursue wisdom. They will understand and be able to manage their time, tasks, and resources. They will have developed the ability to endure and live resiliently with hope, and take ownership of their life, work, and education.
Meet Our Coaches
Equip students learn from dedicated coaches who are passionate about coaching, leadership, and student development.
Hannah Quintero
High School Coach
- Background in coaching young adults and leadership development
- Passion for helping students grow in confidence and decision-making
Julia Gottfried
High School Coach
- Homeschool graduate and leadership training alumna
- Helps students develop independence, creativity, and resilience
Kyle DeJarnatt
High School Coach
- Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Master’s in Christian Ministry
- Passionate about personal growth, biblical leadership, and real-world skills
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How to Get Started
Register
You can register for Explore in two ways: through the registration section on this page or by booking an admissions call with our team. If you have any questions about Explore that the website hasn’t covered, we encourage you to book a call to get those answered!
Coaching Group Assignment and Access to Program Platforms
In August, your student will receive their Coaching Group assignment, get access to all program platforms where your student will find their program assignments and resources.
Attend APEX
Registration for Unbound’s annual student convention, APEX, is included for all Explore students and we highly encourage students to attend. APEX takes place in August in Michigan and serves as a program and community orientation for new students across all Unbound programs, a recognition event for returning students, and a reunion for Unbound alumni. Check out the most recent recap video here.
Complete Coaching Modules and Attend Coaching Calls
Each month students are introduced to a new coaching principle (examples: having an Attitude of Mastery, being Extraordinary at Ordinary) that they explore through 4 assignments over 4 weeks: introduction, study, application, and reflection. Every two weeks, students will attend group coaching calls for mentorship and accountability with their assigned group and coach. During these calls they will discuss the coaching principle of the month and check in on assignments and goals.
Complete Courses and Reading Assignments
Each semester in Explore students complete an advanced life or study skills course followed by a book study. In addition, Explore students can earn up to 9 college credits through CLEP exams if they choose to (vouchers for exams are included in program registration costs). In the spring semester, they will also work through 8-weeks of Christian worldview training. Courses and worldview training are 8-weeks long and intentionally designed to be engaging, immediately applicable, and relevant to student’s seasons of life. Assignments are given for reflection and application, not busy work. Book studies are also 8-weeks long and material is assigned to engage student’s on a specific topic (i.e. habit-building, resilience, service) and have them practice observation, application, and reflection of the topic in their own lives.
Complete Two Student-Interest Led Projects
During both the fall and spring semesters, Explore students complete an 8-week project. Projects are student-interest led and required to personally relevant and challenging. Students receive a project guide that provides structure for brainstorming, planning, and executing their project. Throughout each semester they will complete their projects in steps, submitting progress to their coach along the way for feedback and review.
Most people are dissatisfied with the lack of practical skills training and personal responsibility that result from traditional high school.
Explore helps high schooler seniors develop personal responsibility for their education and build practical, relevant skills by providing project-based learning in a coaching environment so they can learn to thrive in their academics and relationships.
At Unbound, we think there are five foundational things young adults need to learn in order to thrive in high school and beyond:
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To take full responsibility for your life
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To serve others by being extraordinary at ordinary
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To prioritize relationships
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To create value
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And to live resiliently, in light of eternity, and for the glory of God
Every aspect of Explore is designed to teach these skills. And it all happens in the context of coaching and community.
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