How We Learn

Our students learn by doing.

Children do hands-on work every day. They design long-term projects, face setbacks, and find solutions. They study their own identities and their classmates’. They go outside every week to study nature, social studies, and art.

Our classrooms motivate students. Each class has hundreds of new, interesting books. In each classroom, children take care of a pet, cook or bake their own snack, clean, organize, and help each other in real ways. Children have high standards for each other and themselves.

Motivated learners learn better. Children study intently because they choose their projects. By they end of first grade, most CPE1 students are reading at or above grade level; most got started in pre-K, reading recipes and doing real work in their classroom.

Walking Alongside the Learner: Curriculum in Yvonne’s Pre-K Classroom 

These videos offer images of high quality early learning in a Pre-K classroom in a New York City public school — East Harlem’s Central Park East 1 Elementary School links:

• https://highqualityearlylearning.org/pre-k-videos/