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HighScope’s research-based, active learning curriculum has been carefully designed to promote independent, creative thinking; decision making; and problem solving in children from birth through kindergarten.

In the HighScope Preschool Curriculum, learning is focused on the following eight content areas:

• Approaches to Learning
• Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development and Health
• Language, Literacy, and Communication
• Mathematics
• Creative Arts
• Science and Technology
• Social Studies

In the HighScope Infant/Toddler Curriculum, learning is focused on the following six content areas:

• Approaches to Learning
• Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development and Health
• Communication, Language, and Literacy
• Cognitive Development
• Creative Arts

Before family conferences, families will be given the appropriate age screening tool (Learn the Signs. Act Early.) to complete and return. The screening tool is short and provides a quick snapshot of a child’s health and developmental status and indicates whether further evaluation is needed to identify potential difficulties that might necessitate interventions or special education services.

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The Project Approach, a specific kind of project-based learning, brings a number of advantages to any classroom and represents best practices in 21st-century education. It fits securely within both a long history of innovative teaching and learning practices—dating back, at least, to the 16th century—and within the framework of today’s growing body of research on what students need to find success and fulfillment in the current (and future) world.

The Project Approach refers to a set of teaching strategies that enable teachers to guide students through in-depth studies of real-world topics. Projects have a complex but flexible framework within which teaching and learning are seen as interactive processes. When teachers implement the Approach successfully, students feel highly motivated and actively involved in their own learning, leading them to produce high-quality work and to grow as individuals and collaborators.

A project, by definition, is an in-depth investigation of a real-world topic worthy of a student’s attention and effort. The study may be carried out with an entire class or with small groups of students—most often at the preschool, elementary, and middle school levels. Projects typically do not constitute the whole educational program; instead, teachers use them alongside systematic instruction and as a means of achieving curricular goals.

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COR Advantage is built on 36 items that are proven by research to best prepare children for school success. With the fewest items of any early childhood assessment, COR saves teachers time and keeps them focused on what matters most. Teachers use the valuable insight they put in the tool to create individualized lesson plans and detailed reports on child and classroom progress. The online tool’s in-the-moment support increases the accuracy of teacher’s scores, delivering consistent data administrators can rely on to meaningfully guide their program to the next level.

Criterion-referenced and research-based COR Advantage has been proven valid and reliable through rigorous validation studies. COR Advantage is aligned to the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, Common Core State Standards, and early learning state standards and can be used with any developmentally appropriate curriculum.

Learn, Grow, Eat & Go! (LGEG) is a 10-week unit of study that is hands-on, multifaceted, and academically rich. LGEG is made up of a 20-lesson based curriculum with optional “Growing further” lesson extensions. It features food exposures through fresh sampling and evaluation, Garden Kitchen recipes, and brief Go Strong classroom exercises to maximize benefits to students.

The Children’s Centers participate in the CACFP. It is a federal program that provides reimbursement for healthful meals and snacks served to children and adults. The center rotates two, six-week seasonal menus, updated annually including family feedback. We offer a variety of fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, whole grains, and culturally diverse foods. We use locally sourced items when available. The CACFP provides nutritious meals to children and helps them develop good eating habits which they will retain in later years. Both of these nutritional goals can be effectively pursued through family-style meal service. The center also has a special allergy and dietary policy and tries to accommodate children based on their health needs.

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