Center For The Collaborative Classroom

The caring school community (csc) program is an approach to creating caring school environments that support students' character development and academic learning by building supportive relationships among students, teachers, and parents and by guiding students' ethical, social, and emotional as well as academic growth. Csc strengthens students' connectedness to schoolan important element for increasing academic motivation and achievement and for reducing violence and delinquency. Schools which have implemented the csc program have experienced measureable gains in reading and math scores as well as an environment within the schools where students display an increased level of empathy and cooperation that carries over into academics.

Seeds of learning is a proven, highly replicable professional learning framework that builds language, literacy, and social skills for children from birth through age 5. The framework, which is curriculum agnostic, gives adults the tools and confidence to have positive, intentional interactions with young children and accelerate their oral language development and foundational reading skills.