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Early Childhood

Families choose ACDS’s Pre-K program so their students can take advantage not only of our play-responsive program but also access the wide-ranging enrichments and opportunities that a Pre-Kindergarten - 8th grade school community offers.

Elementary School

Our Kindergarten-Grade 5 students all experience diverse instructional programs, enrichment classes, and project-based learning. We offer continuity and consistency across a curriculum designed to develop and celebrate the whole child.

Middle School

Grades 6-8 at ACDS offer students rigorous academics, small classes with personalized attention and encouragement from enthusiastic teachers, a choice of more than 50 elective classes, opportunities to work in teams on project- and problem-based activities, and unforgettable week-long field trips.

ACDS offers the first and only Orton-Gillingham-based integrated learning program in the South Bay Area for children with language-based learning differences. Our unique approach to language-based learning challenges keeps your child in a mainstream school and prepares them to be successful in high school and beyond.

The Learning Center

Families choose ACDS’s Pre-K program so their students can take advantage not only of our play-responsive program but also access the wide-ranging enrichments and opportunities that a Pre-Kindergarten - 8th grade school community offers.

Early Childhood

Our Kindergarten-Grade 5 students all experience diverse instructional programs, enrichment classes, and project-based learning. We offer continuity and consistency across a curriculum designed to develop and celebrate the whole child.

Elementary School

Grades 6-8 at ACDS offer students rigorous academics, small classes with personalized attention and encouragement from enthusiastic teachers, a choice of more than 50 elective classes, opportunities to work in teams on project- and problem-based activities, and unforgettable week-long field trips.

Middle School

ACDS offers the first and only Orton-Gillingham-based integrated learning program in the South Bay Area for children with language-based learning differences. Our unique approach to language-based learning challenges keeps your child in a mainstream school and prepares them to be successful in high school and beyond.

The Learning Center

Families choose ACDS’s Pre-K program so their students can take advantage not only of our play-responsive program but also access the wide-ranging enrichments and opportunities that a Pre-Kindergarten - 8th grade school community offers.

Early Childhood

Our Kindergarten-Grade 5 students all experience diverse instructional programs, enrichment classes, and project-based learning. We offer continuity and consistency across a curriculum designed to develop and celebrate the whole child.

Elementary School

Grades 6-8 at ACDS offer students rigorous academics, small classes with personalized attention and encouragement from enthusiastic teachers, a choice of more than 50 elective classes, opportunities to work in teams on project- and problem-based activities, and unforgettable week-long field trips.

Middle School

ACDS offers the first and only Orton-Gillingham-based integrated learning program in the South Bay Area for children with language-based learning differences. Our unique approach to language-based learning challenges keeps your child in a mainstream school and prepares them to be successful in high school and beyond.

The Learning Center

Goal #1: Self-knowledge

TLC students will understand and appreciate their learning profile. They will articulate their learning strengths and weaknesses and will develop strategies to manage their weaknesses. They will self-advocate, articulate their needs, and know what they need in terms of a successful learning experience. They will develop a personal, strengths-based approach to learning. 

Goal #2: Academics

Using the Orton-Gillingham Approach, students build accurate reading, spelling, and writing skills; these will help close the gap and ensure students perform effectively in the general education classroom.

Mathematics is taught using a multisensory approach. Students are taught to think flexibly, to understand that depth is more important than speed, and to develop multiple methods to solve problems.

Goal #3: Executive Functions and Study Skills

Students will understand how executive functions are brain processes that help us carry out goal-oriented behaviors, including initiating, sustaining, monitoring, and adapting our actions. Students will identify the functions of attention, memory, emotion, motivation, and effort; they will know which are personal strengths and which are struggles. Additionally, they will learn strategies for organizing time, materials, and information; they will practice these daily.

Goal #4: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

Our students have a “can-do” attitude. Appreciating their many strengths helps them maintain their perspective when they face challenges. They are open to taking risks, and they know that making mistakes is part of learning. “Yet” is a common reference - “I don’t know how, yet.” Having a growth mindset is part of our daily language and the students are able to speak to its benefits. 

Goal #3: Executive Functions and Study Skills

Students will understand how executive functions are brain processes that help us carry out goal-oriented behaviors, including initiating, sustaining, monitoring, and adapting our actions. Students will identify the functions of attention, memory, emotion, motivation, and effort; they will know which are personal strengths and which are struggles. Additionally, they will learn strategies for organizing time, materials, and information; they will practice these daily.

Goal #4: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

Our students have a “can-do” attitude. Appreciating their many strengths helps them maintain their perspective when they face challenges. They are open to taking risks, and they know that making mistakes is part of learning. “Yet” is a common reference - “I don’t know how, yet.” Having a growth mindset is part of our daily language and the students are able to speak to its benefits.