Center of Gravity’s proprietary curriculum framework is designed to encourage each child to reach their full potential and to approach learning with enthusiasm, persistence, and joy. Our goal is to ensure that each child has numerous experiences and opportunities - every day to give each child a positive self-image of confidence, connection, and collaboration; and to ensure a lifelong love of learning, inquiry, and exploration. 

Our teachers and faculty observe and assess each child’s interests and levels of developing skills, and learn how to adapt the environment and curriculum to best meet the needs of all children – both individually and collectively. 

OUR CORE FRAMEWORK

As a lab school for the I3 Institute, the Center of Gravity seeks to implement I3 Institute's core framework across campuses and classrooms:

• Inquiry: Cultivating curiosity in children and ourselves

• Intention: Leaning into the tensions and complexities of the learning/leading process

• Innovation: Being together, not the same: Diverse perspectives strengthen our future

OUR INSTRUCTIONAL CORNERSTONES

• STEM + Art/Design Integration

• Complex Play & Social Emotional Learning

• Inquiry and Project Based Learning

• Early Literacy & Dual Language Acquisition

OUR CORE VALUES

• Diversity and Inclusion

• Democracy and Civic Debate

• Research and Knowledge-Sharing