Progressive Education

What is progressive education?

Progressive education is experiential, active learning that honors the developmental ages and stages of physical, social, and cognitive development.

A progressive approach to education facilitates deep conceptual understanding and, for this reason, is a rich and rigorous approach to learning. While growth in each area has characteristic properties and milestones, the learning process is different for each child, given the idiosyncratic nature of children and learning. Elasticity and flexibility allow the curriculum to respond to children's interests, needs, and growth patterns.