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The Croft School: South End, a small, innovative, high-quality private school, opened in September 2022. In 2024-25, the school will operate with Preschool (Age 3), Pre-Kindergarten (K1), Kindergarten (K2), and Grade 1 classrooms; it will subsequently expand one grade level each year until it reaches capacity as a Preschool through Grade 6 school.
The school is designed to serve students living in the South End, South Boston, Back Bay, Roxbury, Fenway, Chinatown, Downtown Crossing, and other Boston neighborhoods. Building upon the foundation of The Croft Schools in Providence and Jamaica Plain, The Croft School: South End was opened in response to requests from neighborhood-area families seeking a higher-quality, more diverse, and more affordable school that would be close to home.
Rigor and Spark. We hope that boredom is the antithesis of the
Croft student experience. Our goal at Croft is not simply to
sustain the curiosity that many young children naturally possess
when entering school. It is to brighten each child`s spark even
further and enhance a child`s love for learning more and more as
she or he grows older. To do so, we utilize teaching strategies
that ensure that each child`s academic work is on the edge of her
or his knowledge and skill level, we over-invest in connecting
lessons and projects to the interests of our students, and we hire
teachers who bring a natural and contagious zeal to a profession
they love. We never shy away from challenging our students, helping
them strengthen their core skills while also broadening and
deepening their knowledge. In doing so, we are creating pathways
for our children to soar academically, both within and beyond The
Croft School`s classrooms.
Student-Centeredness. The Croft School is anything but "one
size fits all." We know that learning is stickier when it is
relevant and connected to one`s personal experiences and interests.
While we always encourage students to reach beyond the familiar and
their own comfort zone, our program creates opportunities for
students to dive deeply into what matters most to them. In math and
literacy, we leverage small, flexible groupings to ensure that each
child is receiving the right lesson at just the right time. This
allows students who are able to accelerate into advanced skills to
do so, while it affording students extra time and support, as
needed, to master grade-level fundamentals
Balance. We know schools that are obsessive about testing and
standards. We know other schools that choose to forego explicit
teaching of critical literacy, math, and other foundational skills.
We pride ourselves on being thoughtful about balance: the right
dose of core academic focus mixed with the right dose of other
types of progressive learning, discovery, and fun! We`re often
asked: Are you Montessori? Are you Waldorf? Are you traditional
"Direct Instruction"? Our answer: we respect all of these program
types, and employ our favorite features from each of them. But
ultimately, we are a new type of educational model that transcends
traditional labels. We offer a balance between structured academic
time and choice-based purposeful play; a balance between academics
and social-emotional learning; a balance of both active and quiet
time; and a balance of both indoor and outdoor learning.
Strong Relationships. The Croft School is a small school. To
us, small is a beautiful thing. Small allows school to be personal
for each child, where individual students become known personally
and form the nexus of each decision that our teachers make. Small
ensures that students never get "lost in the crowd" and get
individual attention every day. Small allows students` social
development and friendships and the parent community to be
thoughtfully built over time. Most importantly, perhaps, small
means excellence. By focusing on the quality of our program rather
than its size, we can consistently deliver on the promises we make
and the high expectations we hope that families hold.Relationships
matter in education between teachers and students and between
teachers and parents. We are passionate about building deep,
caring, and trustful relationships with our students and parents,
and then working in partnership to customize the program to fit
each child`s interests and needs. We hope that the bonds that are
built at Croft can last a lifetime.
Outstanding Teachers, Collaborative Improvement. At Croft, we
make a resolute commitment to providing our students the very best:
we aspire to hire and retain the best teachers in the field. That
means teachers who are caring and empathetic, experienced yet
innovative, and who bring a natural and contagious zeal to a
profession they love. It means teachers who come from a wide range
of backgrounds and reflect the diversity of our communities and
student body. And it means teachers who our children will remember,
vividly, for the rest of their lives.Further, we aim to be a school
where teachers are excited to remain in our classrooms for tens of
years. For most outstanding teachers, this excitement flourishes
when they are part of a collaborative team focused on whole-school
improvement and individual growth. We have worked hard to establish
this type of professional culture.
Diverse, Inclusive, Anti-Racist Community. At The Croft School
we deeply value diversity, equity and social justice as we believe
in the humanity of all people. We are committed to being an
anti-racist and anti-bias school. We explore and affirm identity
including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion,
socioeconomics, social class and family structures. We, the
students, educators, and families of The Croft School, hold
ourselves accountable to the daily work of working towards an
inclusive and liberated society.
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