Center for the Collaborative Classroom

the Center for the Collaborative Classroom provides a complete k6 literacy program that gets to the core of what is needed to enhance instructional practice in reading and language arts classrooms throughout the united states. Our suite of integrated literacy programs effectively motivate all students to learn and to help all students master basic literacy skills while also learning to think deeply about what they read and write. In addition, our programs facilitate students' acquisition of social and emotional skills and ethical and caring dispositions, as a seamless part of academic instruction establish Classroom conditions in which all students are able to form supportive relationships with one another and their teachers and, in the process, effectively "bond" to their school, their teachers, and their peers.

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 school-- an 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.