Our Curriculum

Our teachers use the Maine Learning Results as the backbone to their curriculum. Methods of the Responsive Classroom encourage teamwork, character-growth, active involvement and academic engagement while also fostering key social skills.  Expeditionary Learning units are challenging projects developed to enhance teaching across the subject areas of math, literacy, science and social studies.  The high teacher-student ratio gives teachers the opportunity to identify specific student interests and needs and a degree of freedom to pursue and develop individual strengths and weaknesses, helping to capture our students’ innate love of learning.  Throughout the year, many field trips, guest speakers and community service projects support and enhance the classroom experience.  Parent volunteers play a key role in making these extracurricular activities possible.  Throughout the school year, students also have the opportunity to showcase their progress to family members during potluck dinner/presentations.  These gatherings help strengthen our close-knit community by giving teachers, parents and students a chance to meet and socialize.  The group presentations highlight the projects the students have been working on and give them the occasion to speak/perform in front of an audience.