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Before offering services to the public, its founder, Dr. Charles Bernstein, and other researchers spent several years conducting research on child development and creating what is now known as the “HeadsUp!® Approach” to early learning. This research base and the resulting HeadsUp!® philosophy have served as the anchor for all subsequent development efforts and they continue to distinguish ELI from other organizations offering children’s services.
With locations in Palo Alto, San Jose, and Pleasanton, CA, our preschools borrow from the best model programs and the most recent educational research. Through play and learning games, our program is designed to help lay the necessary foundation of all future learning. The preschool program employs a modified Montessori curriculum and incorporates art, music, and imaginative play into the traditional emphasis on practical life, sensorial, language, mathematics, science, and cultural activities.
Our private elementary/middle school programs build on this model to allow children to grow using the Montessori curriculum. Our locations incorporate the most recent advances in language, mathematics, and science curricula to craft an accelerated, yet in-depth program for first through eighth graders.
EAR-ROUND WEEKLY CLASSES
Over the years, a number of courses have been offered, including “Creative Writing: Short Stories, Poems, and Plays/Screenplays,” “Literature,” and “Spelling.” At present, the course being offered during the academic year is “Fundamentals of Writing.” It is offered at two different levels: Lower Elementary (Grades 2-3) and Upper Elementary/Middle School (Grades 4-8), with the second level sometimes split into two different age groupings.
“Fundamentals of Writing” encompass 30 weeks of instruction and covers three general areas: (1) writing skills that apply to all writing, (2) exercises related to school-type writing (“expository writing”), and (3) assignments that encourage self expression. The types of writing done in school include: news reports, letters, memos, pop quizzes, book reports, movie reviews, blogs, essays, and research reports. In addition, it includes the four major writing tests that are given to California students (“narrative,” “summary,” “response to literature,” and “persuasive”). The last component, involving “creative writing” includes the major creative forms: stories, poems, and plays.