Curriculum at Trailblazers is emergent, which means that we continuously pull from multiple resources to support the individual needs of each child. This method of creating curriculum is foundational to educational models that influence our mission and goals, such as Reggio Emilia.

Curriculum is designed by our educators and a curriculum team consisting of educators who work with children and teachers in various capacities, such as environmental education, the arts, counseling, and parenting, as well as educators with advanced degrees in early childhood and elementary education. This process includes ongoing learning about students' experiences, interests, and needs as well as looking across elementary state standards and various curricular programs in order to design learning experiences that support and challenge individual students.

Our students will develop academic fluency through a combination of inquiry projects, imaginative play and exploration, learning stations, and small group/individual lessons, while also integrating technology. Academic stations will follow a workshop model of 1. Modeling the lesson, 2. Working and engaging with students, and 3. Reflecting and sharing what was and is being learned. This frees the educator from the front of the class to actively engage in sharing in learning.

Educators carefully observe and reflect upon relationships to plan experiences that connect students’ interests and knowledge to new learning opportunities. Educators utilize a variety of assessments, such as rubrics, parent teacher conferences, informal conversations between parents, student teacher conferences, communication journals, project based assessments, and student work artifacts to guide learning opportunities.