The Caroline School Curriculum

Our Approach

The Caroline School has shown great success in following the unique educational approach detailed below.

1. We build a relationship with your child. We learn where they are physically, socially, and cognitively and share joy with them there. When they have fun with us, they want to learn from us.
2. We collaborate with your child’s team. We understand that you have many important people in your child’s life all with their own area of expertise. We cherish that and want to use their insight, as well as your own, to create an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). This document will track the goals we, as a team, have decided are most important for your child. It will be our learning map for teaching your child.
3. We teach using a “menu based” learning system. We look at your child’s goals and select the best research-based curricula and teaching techniques to challenge and support them to achieve their goals. We use large, small, and one on one grouping, as well as lessons that are explicit, sequential, and repetitive or spiraling (going over the same material, only in more depth each time), all depending on your child’s instructional need.

Our Offered Curricula

Learning Without Tears' guides students to success with developmentally appropriate sequence of instruction. It provides consistent guided practice to develop automaticity and fluency, multisensory components engage visual, audio, and kinesthetic learners and hands-on manipulatives for developing fine motor and phonics skills.

Experience - Preschool is a research-based early learning curriculum that weaves 35 skills into playful games and projects, helping children grow in social-emotional, physical, language and cognitive development.

Attainment is appropriate for students with significant developmental disabilities. It provides instruction across a range of developmental and academic areas, including communication, literacy, mathematics, social-emotional skills, and daily living skills. Lessons are taught systematically, incorporating scripted lessons, least intrusive prompting strategies, teachable objectives, and ongoing assessments. This comprehensive system provides hands-on opportunities for your child to learn, grow, and build independence.

Zones of Regulation is “designed to foster self-regulation and emotional control” for late preschoolers to adults. The hands-on lessons and activities help individuals with any ability recognize their feelings and use tools and strategies to regulate their behavior in socially accepted and appropriate ways.

These are only some of the important methods we use to help our students reach the height of their potential at The Caroline School. Please contact our Director, Sandra Guerra, at sguerra@eastersealshouston.org or 281.740.1543 with questions or to schedule a tour.