Lower School
Sterne's Program for Grades 4-5
Sterne offers our youngest learners a highly supportive, engaging, and joyful learning environment. Students are seen and understood by our team of highly-trained, compassionate, and enthusiastic teachers who see them through a strengths-based lens. Our Lower School takes into account the whole student: their unique learning profile, their strengths and interests, and any lagging skills. Sterne's skills-based placement allows us to engage our students at their instructional level in each discipline.
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The Pillars of our program:
- Small class sizes with caring teachers who have the tools and training to support dyslexia, ADHD, and executive functioning in the classroom
- Learning Specialist support in academic subjects and small-group instruction when appropriate
- Right-fit instructional groupings and highly differentiated classroom experience
- Hands-on, project-based learning
- Homeroom at beginning and end of each day for executive functioning support
- Specialized electives: maker, digital film, music, drama, studio art, and daily P.E.
- Competency-based social-emotional learning program
- Rich student life: movie socials, spirit weeks, clubs, Experiential Week, Expedition Days, and more!