Creative Curriculum is designed to meet the basic needs of all students. Inside each classroom, Creative Curriculum allows teachers to create an atmosphere in which children feel safe, emotionally secure, and have a sense of belonging.  Lessons describe activities and teaching strategies that are challenging, yet within children’s reach.  Creative Curriculum also provides choices for children and a role in determining how they learn.  This curriculum helps children acquire social competence and the skills all students need to succeed as learners. 

Creative Curriculum explores the benefits of working with families as partners in the care of their children.  The curriculum touches on how partnerships are built by exchanging information on a daily basis, involving families in all aspects of our program, communicating in respectful ways, and working through differences in ways that sustain the partnership and the benefit of the children. 

Creative Curriculum helps teachers be intentional about the experiences that they offer while still having the flexibility to respond to the changing interest and abilities of the children. 

Beginning of Year

Trees

Bread

Simple Machines

Buildings

Pets

Gardening

End of Year

Assessments

Students are assessed for progress three times a year using the play-based observational tool, Teaching Strategies GOLD.

GOLD is an authentic, ongoing, observation-based assessment system that helps teachers and administrators focus on what matters most for children’s success.

Grounded in 38 research-based objectives for development and learning, GOLD supports effective teaching and assessment, while providing teachers with more time to spend with the children in their program.