Kids are People Elementary School

Kids Are People School is a private school located near the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. The school serves children from one month through sixth grade.

The school’s partial mission statement.
... The basic philosophy at Kids Are People School is that education should be fun, rewarding, interesting, and challenging. Along with this is a deep-rooted belief in the integration of cultures and abilities. We support looking at the world and people as a whole and finding the goodness and specialness of individuals and cultures. In an effort to truly support these philosophies, we believe in individualized, center-based teaching and cooperative learning. So that our children can participate in all activities, modifications and expansions to the curriculum are made to accommodate individual abilities. We firmly believe that children learn better in cooperation and from one another, with the teacher acting as a facilitator. We foster and strongly encourage ideas for curriculum to come from the children, and we support peer teaching and peer problem solving.

Academics
Daycare: The infant program serves children from 1 month to 15 months and focuses on feeding, sleeping, changing, and playing schedules. The development of gross motor skills, perceptual and fine motor skills, cognition, self-help skills, language, and social and emotional skills is supported and assessed.
The toddler program continues the children’s developmental process and evaluation, with a special focus on social and emotional development and pre-academic competition among the children. Activities include beginning work in letters, colors, numbers, art, water, and sand, as well as many other sensory activities.

Preschool: While the preschool program continues to follow the developmental milestones of the children, the focus is on pre-academic skills. These include social and emotional age-appropriate maturities such as responsibility, truthfulness, politeness, and sharing. The focus is also placed on exploring letters, symbols, reading, puzzles, group meetings for the calendar, singing, sharing stories and poems, etc.

Elementary: The major five areas of development are writing, reading, listening, speaking, and performing. The focus of the school's curriculum is as follows:

• Center-based, small-group teaching.

• Peer teaching.

• Cooperative small-group problem solving.

• Quarterly child choice projects are chosen by children to work on on their own or with their parents to present to the class.

• Strong focus on basic skill learning.

• Strong focus on appreciation of differences and acceptance of anti-bias behavior.