Curriculum

The beauty of learning at Barrow Street is that the curriculum is focused entirely on the early childhood years. Whatever the subject matter, teachers set curricular goals, and design and implement projects and activities with their student's abilities and interests in mind. 

Believing the early years are the most intensely productive of a child's life, we challenge our students to excel in ways that fit their own unique development. Themes and topics are integrated across different areas --- overlapping from one area to the next and connecting subjects together. Barrow Street teachers strive to present new ideas that build on familiar concepts to students. 

Our curriculum provides children with the building blocks of knowledge, thinking and reasoning. We incorporate age-appropriate skills into content areas and progressively increase the level of difficulty as children master each set of skills. Social interaction, problem solving skills and language development are strongly emphasized.

Service Learning 

While academics are an important part of the curriculum, Barrow Street believes a solid educational foundation also includes learning about character, ethics and the community. Barrow Street children share in the rich life of New York City's West Village community. The school reinforces the belief that education promotes responsibility and develops character. 

Beginning with our youngest students, we reinforce respect, responsibility, honesty, and kindness. Values are discussed with parents at workshops and actively shared through school-wide community service projects and classroom activities. 

The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum and teaches an important set of skills our young students will need to succeed in life. These skills are not only taught, but modeled by the entire adult community at the school. This results in a community that is safe and where children enjoy learning. 

Walk into any Barrow Street classroom and you'll see our teachers encouraging and engaging young minds, and students taking a true joy in the process of learning.