We sustain academic rigor by increasing learning time, setting high expectations, and helping meet the health and social service needs of our Scholars.

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Founding Core Beliefs

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ACADEMICS

Students learn best in a comprehensive, individualized, rigorous academic program that both teaches basic skills and inspires students to have rich intellectual lives.

Features of our academic program

  • An extended school day: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 7:30am-3:45pm, and Wednesdays from 7:30am-12:15pm.

  • A school that year runs from August through June

  • More than three hours daily of math, reading, and writing

  • Teachers who meet weekly to discuss curriculum and lesson planning

  • Regular teacher professional development and observations that focus on instruction, student data, and best practices

  • A rich and thematic social studies and science curricula that are each designed to incorporate hands-on projects and develop student inquiry

  • Licensed ELL teachers who provide ELL students with their needed hours of intervention

  • Inclusion support across all academic areas

  • Pull-out support with modified curricula for those in need

  • A Special Education department that equips students with disabilities with the academic and life skills needed to be active participants in their classrooms and in their communities

  • Speech, English Language, and Occupational Therapy services through an individual education program (IEP) that are provided either in the classroom (push-in services) or in the speech room (pull-out services)

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FULL SERVICE

Students learn best in a school that has an intentional focus on the elimination of barriers to learning through vibrant community partnerships that allow the school to meet the health and social service needs of its students.

Bridge Boston meets the needs of the whole child through an innovative Full Service Model that works to eliminate the barriers to success facing our students and families. Across multiple domains - Academics, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), Health and Wellbeing, and Family Supports - we provide a wide range of supports and services designed to meet the individual needs of each student and family. Some services are used by all of our students and families; some are used by many; and others are used by only a small handful of students and families. Our community partners play a critical role in helping to provide components of our Full Service Model.

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Social-emotional Learning

Bridge Boston works to create a nurturing community that honors the whole child. Classrooms are both joyful and demanding. We strive to create a balance between ensuring that students have the space and tools to cope with the aftermath of the trauma with which so many of them grapple, while continually pushing them to think deeply, read critically, write clearly, and solve problems independently. We want to expand our students’ self-discipline and self-appreciation.

FEATURES OF OUR WHOLE CHILD PROGRAM

  • A social-emotional curriculum designed to develop the successful management of life tasks such as learning, forming relationships, solving everyday problems, collaboration, decision-making, conflict resolution, and being resilient against negative peer pressure or substance abuse

  • Our core values of joy, achievement, generosity, unity, acceptance, and resiliency (JAGUAR)

  • A strong art, music, and physical education program grounded in the idea that different children shine in different milieus