Please join us on Thursday, January 19th 2023 for our Early Education Expo!
DATE: Thursday – January 19, 2023
TIME: 6:30PM-8:00PM
WHERE: Virtual via Zoom
ZOOM LINK: https://bit.ly/3G2RSdG
Carlton Innovation School Information Session – Coming Soon!
ACADEMICS
- Innovation Plan allows for flexibility of when students enter and exit a grade level and advancement is based on students’ continuous progress.
- Kindergartners start in fall, winter, or spring trimesters based on the timing of their 5th birthday.
- Diagnostic approach used to inform flexible, small-group instruction including student reflection and goal setting
- Multi-age classrooms with flexible grouping based on students’ needs – each student advances at their own pace
- Two-hour literacy instruction using a workshop model
- Eighty-minute math block
- Art, music, and science programs
- Project-based inquiry to investigate science and social studies topics

LIFE AT CARLTON
- Transition meetings
- Community circles
- End-of-the-year Celebration of Learning
- Monthly school assemblies
- Literacy celebrated through a Snowball Slam (reading initiative) that includes a vocabulary parade, community readers, pajama read-in day, and SHS boys basketball team readers
- Stickers and shout-outs
- Daily Morning Meeting
- School-wide student performances
RESOURCES
To ensure that all students are prepared to achieve and inspired to learn, we also provide:
- Chromebooks for all students to use
- Bilingual outreach/Family Engagement Facilitator
- On-site, after-school program for working families
- Take-home books and book bags for students to read at home