UPK Curriculum & Assessment

Creative Curriculum
Comprehensive integrated curriculum provides everything for Prekindergarten. Including oral language skills, math and science, and listening comprehension development, plus so much more. 

Second Step
Grounded in social and emotional learning (SEL). SEL helps children: resolve conflicts peacefully, handle emotions positively, Empathize and make responsible decisions.

Engage NY Math Modules (Supplemental)
Prekindergarten students have a well-planned, sequential math program that is embedded with hands-on, playful, interactive, largely concrete experiences. Students are encouraged to use their math words to communicate their observations.

Work Sampling Assessment
Authentic performance assessment is based on teachers' observations of children at work in the classroom learning, solving problems, interacting, and creating products. 3 Checkpoints throughout the school year.

DIAL Assessment
Baseline assessment that identifies developmental needs quickly and accurately. It allow teachers to easily identify potential developmental delays and giftedness in language, motor, self-help, social-emotional, and cognitive skills. Observations help teachers record and organize important observations.

Dual Language education is an effective approach to developing language proficiency and literacy in English and Spanish. Two-Way Immersion dual language education, i.e., one day English one day Spanish, integrates native English speakers and native Spanish speakers for academic content instruction through both English and Spanish.

Bilingual and Dual Language programs promote bilingualism and biliteracy, grade-level academic achievement and cross-cultural competence in all students. Students maintain their native language while adding another language, and they develop pride in their own culture while developing an understanding of others.