We teach with The Creative Curriculum®
Every BPCC classroom, from the infant room through pre-kindergarten, follows The Creative Curriculum® from Teaching Strategies: a research-based, play-based approach used in early childhood programs across the country. It is the reason a BPCC day looks like play and adds up to school readiness.
What a research-based curriculum actually changes
Studies, not worksheets
Children investigate a familiar topic in depth over several weeks, driven by their own questions. A study of "balls" becomes measurement, physics, vocabulary, and collaboration, because the questions came from them.
Interest areas
Each room is arranged into defined areas: blocks, dramatic play, art, library, discovery, sand and water. Children choose where to work, which is what makes the learning stick, and teachers know exactly what each area is teaching.
Intentional teaching
Play is the method, not the absence of one. Teachers observe, document what each child can do, and plan the next experience deliberately, rather than hoping the right learning happens on its own.
One curriculum, from 6 weeks to Pre-K
Because the same framework runs through every room, a child moving up is not starting over. Their teachers are working from the same objectives, the same language, and the same record of what that child can already do.
The Creative Curriculum is designed to align with state early learning standards, including Connecticut's Early Learning and Development Standards, and it sits naturally alongside the developmentally appropriate practice our NAEYC accreditation is measured against.
- Social-emotional
- Physical
- Language
- Cognitive
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Science & technology
- Social studies
- The arts
See the curriculum in a real classroom
A tour is the fastest way to understand it. Come watch a study in progress and see what the interest areas look like when children are in them.