BASIS Independent Silicon Valley: Situated in the heart of San Jose CA in the Santa Clara Valley, BASIS Independent Silicon Valley provides STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) education to students in Grades 5-12.
STEM-focused Curriculum for Grades 5-12:
Subjects include: - Drama
- Economics
- Engineering
- English
- Fine Arts
- Foreign Languages
- Logic
- Math
- Music
- Science
- World History
Odyssey School is a private, independent co-educational middle school for gifted and talented students in west San Mateo in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Odyssey provides gifted students a creative, integrated, experiential curriculum that nurtures intellectual curiosity and emotional risk-taking in an intimate, challenging, yet safe community, resulting in personal accountability, ethical decision-making and an intrinsic passion for learning.
The most salient characteristic of the Odyssey course of study is an integrated curriculum. We want students making connections among disciplines, between what is occurring in the real world and their classes, as well as a connection to the real issues in their lives and their course of study.
Middle School Program (Grades 6-8) for Gifted & Talented Students:
Suibjects / features include:
- Math
- Science
- Humanities
- Writing
- Literature
- Art
- Drama
- Japanese
- Tai Chi
- Dance
- Chorus
- Stage Combat
- Odyssey's 3 year program culminates in a 3 week trip to Japan.
Anne Sullivan Nursery School and Kindergarten is located in the city of Wildomar in Riverside County, CA. Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), we provide full-day and half-day preschool and kindergarten programs for ages 2 years 9 months through kindergarten. We aim to prepare children academically, emotionally, socially and physically for formal schooling. We are proud that our school is open to all children regardless of race, creed, religion, ethnicity, gender or disability.
Our dedicated staff provides a safe and emotionally healthy environment. Children participate in hands-on activities with a variety of open-ended materials that are geared to meet their needs and their diversity of talents and temperaments.
The school is situated on 30 acres of countryside which offers the children the benefits of a peaceful and expansive natural setting. This allows our teachers to supplement classroom instruction with learning experiences based within nature itself, stimulating the children’s interest in and respect for the world around them.
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Located in Culver City in Western Los Angeles County, CA, Turning Point School offers preschool (from 2 years, 10 months), kindergarten, elementary and middle programs through to 8th grade, as well as before and after school programs and summer camp.
At Turning Point School, we strive to address the comprehensive educational needs of the whole, multi-faceted child. Here, the child is the focus, the teacher the facilitator. In an intimate and focused learning environment, students are able to realize their individual potential.
Through a variety of methods and in a diversity of environments, students build upon their individual strengths. They develop skills for sound judgment and learn how to learn, developing, as they go, their own understanding of the world. By making it relevant to them personally, by helping them reflect on who they are and how they, as individual citizens, can apply their knowledge, we release them solidly into the world.
Students emerge from Turning Point School self-assured in the quality of their ideas and actions, confident in their abilities, and well prepared for the path ahead.
* Education programs from primary (from 2 years 10 months) through to 8th grade:
- Primary and Kindergarten programs
- Elementary School programs
- Middle School programs
- Before and After School programs
- Summer Camp programs
* Our curriculum includes reading and literature, writing mechanics, math, science, social studies, visual arts, performing arts, technology, foreign languages, athletics and human & heath development
Located in Huntington Beach, Orange County, Heritage Montessori School offers an excellent education to children ages 2 through to fourth grade. We follow a well defined, rigorous curriculum that is a blend of classical Montessori roots, modern enhancements, and innovative activities that encourage the development of fundamental skills. Our children test, on average, approximately two years above grade level.
Each child progresses on an individual basis within a social setting that is compatible for him / her. Our staff are creative, caring, educated, and enthusiastic in what they do. At Heritage, we want our children to grow into independent problem solvers and caring, responsible citizens. The Montessori Method has been time-tested for over 100 years and has achieved worldwide success.
Our teachers prepare the environment with a series of sequential, manipulative and sensorial materials that ultimately bridge the gap between concrete and abstract learning. With a great understanding of human development, the teacher observes each child, reflects upon his / her observations and individualizes the curriculum.
Holy Cross Lutheran School is a Preschool and Junior Kindergarten School offering programs to 3, 4 & 5 year olds in Livermore (in the Tri-Valley region of the San Francisco Bay Area) in Alameda County, approximately 33 miles from San Francisco. Our mutual goal is to provide a happy experience for your child in which to learn co-operative living, creative expression and academic achievement in a non-structured settring, and to increase good feelings about himself / herself as a person of worth and a child of God.
The purpose of Holy Cross Lutheran School is to relate to each child the Love of God and the presence of Christ in the child's life by providing a warm Christian atmosphere in which to nurture the child's emotional, spiritual, social, mental and physical development.
- Programs for 3, 4 & 5 year olds
- Preschool program
- Jr. K School program
- Godly Play
- 1/2 day programs (mornings or afternoon)
- Individual attention
- Active, hands on activities
With its focus on the whole child - mind, body, soul - Holy Cross Lutheran School is one of the premier schools in all of the Tri-Valley.