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 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Fridays, as well as early dismissal on Wednesdays

  • 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 and Language 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)

  • Occupational Therapy services through an individual education program (IEP) that are provided either in the classroom (push-in services) or in the OT 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.

FEATURES OF STUDENT AND FAMILY SERVICES

  • Annual health screenings and on-site health services (e.g. eyeglasses through the Mobile Vision Van)

  • Two nutritious meals and a snack provided by our own full-service kitchen

  • Referrals and help with housing, social services, family counseling, and food security

  • Full-time counselors and a comprehensive student support team

  • Parent workshops on a range of topics including asthma awareness, health and wellness, financial planning, reading at home, and behavior management strategies

  • Clinical counseling and health services through community partners such as the Home for Little Wanderers

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WHOLE CHILD

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 navigate social and emotional challenges, while continually pushing them to think deeply, read critically, write clearly, and solve problems independently.

FEATURES OF OUR WHOLE CHILD PROGRAM

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

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

  • A strong art, music, drama enrichment and athletics program that allows students to shine and achieve success in many different arenas