
Back to School Picnic!
It has literally been years since we’ve had our beginning of the year bash and it was a big one! So many students and families gathered at the PAL ballfields and outdoor play area and had a wonderful time. Enjoy the photographic evidence below.

Education Notes: Play is Essential to Learning
Play is essential to constructing a strong, sound foundation from which our children grow to become happy, healthy, productive, and kind adults.

Education Notes: Of Gardens and Partnerships
Gardens provide so many wonderful metaphors for education. Ideas of “planting seeds,” cultivating good habits, and celebrating growth are just a few examples of connecting the labor of gardening with the work of education. However, I want to look at something different, and that is the idea of partnership. As a general rule, we try […]
The Better Futures Society
The Better Futures Society Why Sponsorships are Important In all of the basic measures of school success – attendance, behavior and working at grade level – CCS excels. That success is attributed to small class size, giving students lots of individual attention, and parent engagement. Everyone signs a contract at the beginning of the year […]

Education Notes: Keeping Focused
Our mission calls us to educate, so even in the most tempestuous moments of the last year, we have held strong.

Year End Giving
What does Miguel see outside his window? The Covid-19 pandemic has caused problems for Miguel and all of the students at CCS like him. Research has shown that students from poor urban areas will suffer the most during the pandemic. An American Action Forum study states that “school closures have a disproportionate impact on lower-income […]