Summer Session starts Monday at Royal Fireworks Online Learning, but don’t worry: There’s still time to enroll. Summer courses allow students to strengthen skills they may need for the next school year, but they’re also a great way to enable kids to explore new interests and to stay intellectually engaged during the long summer months. Check out our many options!

Popular instructor and native speaker Liz Contreras has decided to offer the next level of Spanish language learning at Royal Fireworks Online Learning: Spanish 4. Like the first three levels, this advanced course provides deep linguistic instruction but also includes the history, culture, literature, and traditions of the Spanish-speaking world, expanding and enriching students’ experience.

We’re excited to share that our seminal philosophy book for young children, “Little Stories for Big Thinkers,” has won a Mom’s Choice Gold Award! This book, which is specifically designed to be dyslexia-friendly, encourages students to think critically, ask big questions, and engage thoughtfully with the world around them. Winning this award affirms our dedication to supporting thoughtful, rigorous learning for children with books like this one. Happy reading!

We’re pleased to announce our newly released series: Guides to Creative Questioning for Children’s Literature. Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, this four-book series provides instructors with thoughtfully designed discussion questions for a wide range of beloved classic and contemporary children’s and young adult literature.

It’s spring across the northern hemisphere, and that means it’s time for Royal Fireworks Online Learning’s spring workshop series. Our short-format live online workshops are a wonderful way for students to explore a new subject, discover a favorite instructor, or dive into an area of interest without the commitment of a full semester course.

Royal Fireworks has once again been named Specialist Publisher of the Year by the Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards! These awards are designed to recognize organizations around the world that demonstrate outstanding achievement, innovation, and excellence in their field. We have now received this recognition for a second consecutive year, and we’re deeply grateful to the families, instructors, authors, and students who have been a part of our journey.

Spring is the perfect time of year to step outside and study science in the natural world! We have books that can help families engage in science learning, from detailed scientific study and experimenting to a more relaxed process of exploring and observing. These books don’t just encourage curiosity and learning; they help families get outside—together.

Oral speaking and debating are the future of education. With the rise of AI, instructors and professors will require students to present information orally in order to remove the element of AI from their work. But being able to speak confidently and communicate clearly are important in many aspects of life. That’s why instructor Kevin O’Brien is again offering his Speech and Debate course at Royal Fireworks Online Learning for the 2026-2027 school year.

Royal Fireworks Online Learning’s newest instructor Ian Boyd is offering several history courses for the 2026-2027 school year, including four grade-level history courses for students in the third through the sixth grades. There’s also a French history course, as well as spring workshops on the history of the Paris Catacombs. In all of these, Ian connects cultures, landscapes, time periods, people, and ideas, helping students develop a meaningful understanding of history.

Many students today are anxious about the climate crisis, but they don’t have a full understanding of it, and even if they do, they feel helpless to do anything about it. But at Royal Fireworks Online Learning, we’re offering three courses in the 2026-2027 school year that not only will enable students to learn about climate science but also can connect them with youth-led climate efforts and, in some cases, global movements.

Meet Ian Boyd, Royal Fireworks Online Learning’s newest instructor! Ian is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge with extensive knowledge of the French language, history, and culture, as well as world history as a whole. Here we’re profiling his upcoming French language and French history courses, but stay tuned for a more detailed exploration of his history courses soon—all of which are currently open for enrollment.

Learning how to manage stress and build focus and resilience is critical if our students are to succeed, not just in academics but in everything they choose to do in their lives. Expert Arlene Prince can help children and teens learn these skills in her mindfulness and stress-reduction workshops. During the course of just a handful of sessions, students will come away with practical tools that can benefit them for a lifetime.

Learning the Latin language offers a surprising array of benefits, including improving students’ understanding of English grammar and vocabulary, teaching them the roots of modern languages that support learning in everything from science to law, and even helping some dyslexic students become better readers. That’s why we offer several levels of Latin courses at Royal Fireworks Online Learning.

Dr. Steve Cox is offering a range of courses this summer and in the upcoming school year at Royal Fireworks Online Learning that spans an impressive breadth. From an expansive exploration of the history of the United States to the opportunity to delve deeply into the intimate history of students’ own cities or even their own families, these courses are designed to bring scholarly depth and narrative clarity to the study of history.