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Curriculum Components


High Scope

High Scope

The foundation of the High Scope Curriculum is that education is most effective when children are interested, engaged, supported, and encouraged. This active learning approach to early education achieves powerful, positive results. This curriculum approach emphasizes developmentally appropriate learning and practices for young children.

Our goals for young children:

  • To gain knowledge and skills in important academic, social, emotional, and physical domains.
  • To learn to plan many of their own activities, carry their plans out, and talk with others about what they have done and what they have learned.
  • To develop strong executive function and self-regulation skills that will last throughout adulthood.

Conscious Discipline

Conscious Discipline

Conscious Discipline is a comprehensive classroom management program that empowers both teachers and students. Based on current brain research, child development information, and developmentally appropriate practices, the goal of the program is to provide systematic changes in schools.

For our students in prekindergarten, we have built a Conscious Discipline program that includes a focus on strategies to disengage stress, consistent routines and structure, supports for children with language impairments, and parent education.

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TEACCH

utilizes instructional methods which are based on the unique learning needs of individuals within the Autism spectrum, these include:

  • strengths in visual processing
  • difficulties with attention, social communication, and executive function

Teachers utilize organization and supports within the classroom to help facilitate student learning. Some of the strategies used are:

  • physical organization
  • individual schedules
  • work basket systems
  • visual structure of materials for tasks and activities
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Learning Experiences- An Alternative Program for Preschoolers and Parents (LEAP)

is a developmentally-integrated preschool program for typically developing children and peers with autism. It offers a comprehensive parent education program providing help in real-world home and community settings. The LEAP program is research based and part of a network of replication sites that exist in school districts throughout the United States. Key components of the program include:

  • inclusion
  • peer mediated intervention
  • data based decision making
  • evidence based strategies
  • parent skill training

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Islands of Possibility

When you visit an Islands of Possibility classroom the first thing you will notice is a colorful, inviting wonderland of instructional materials. Although Islands of Possibility is more than just a great learning environment (indeed, it is a culmination of best practices for children in the sensorimotor stage of learning), the core of the program is a classroom learning environment that promotes safe sensory exploration, that emphasizes a coordinated system of positioning and that builds connections between students, adults, and materials.

This philosophy calls for all appropriate positioning equipment to be incorporated into the areas of the classroom at all times, making it more functional and easier to use. Our classrooms feature many types of adaptive equipment for relaxing, moving and learning… from sidelyers, prone wedges and bean bags to adapted chairs, standers and mobile standers. Emphasis is placed on using colorful, comfortable and developmentally appropriate pieces, like the Mirror House and Tumbleforms feeder seats. Items like the Big Ellipse rug and colorful therapy mats help make the rooms bright and beautiful as well as soften the floors to encourage crawling and exploring.