Curriculum

Our environmental integrated curriculum breaks down traditional barriers between subjects and makes learning more meaningful to students. We teach interdisciplinary units around environmental themes with which our students can identify. This permits interrelationships and interactions with the knowledge and skills from all content areas.

Prairie Crossing Charter Schools practices constructivist teaching. "Constructivism is an approach to teaching and learning based on the premise that cognition (learning) is the result of 'mental construction.' In other words, students learn by fitting new information together with what they already know. Constructivists believe that learning is affected by the context in which an area is taught as well as by students' beliefs and attitudes." (www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa3const.htm)

For more information on RTI, please view Response to Intervention—PCCS' plan.