What is ACCESS?

The ​ACCESS Curriculum is an emergent, child-centered and science focused curriculum for young children ages birth-5.

Our curriculum encourages teachers to reflect on their practice and empowers them to make informed decisions. It provides tools that aid in fostering inquiry, inspiring creativity, promoting higher-order thinking, supporting powerful interactions and planning meaningful, connected learning experiences. ​

The ACCESS Curriculum: 

• Inspires teaching teams to create connected and meaningful curriculum that is equitable and accessible for all children
• Grounds experiences in inquiry and science as the foundation for all learning.
• Provides context to literacy and emphasizes that learning to read is based on science as children use prediction and trial and error to connect symbols to meaningful print.
• Allows curriculum to align with any set of early learning and development standards.
• Provides an assessment and documentation system that informs instructional decisions and tracks the progress of individual children.​​
• Fosters nurturing and supportive relationships between children and teachers. 
• Responds to the critical need to support social and emotional learning through practice that is child-centered and play-based
• Incorporates the family and societal context as essential to cohesive and high quality curriculum.
• Embraces school culture and traditions.
• ​Can be a STREAM Curriculum for Catholic schools