Building Better Futures for Waterbury’s Children
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,
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
Our mission calls us to educate, so even in the most tempestuous moments of the last year, we have held strong.
CCS does many things well, and finding the “sweet spot” of academic and character-based learning is just one of our strengths.
Despite the obvious challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, the past few months have been some of my most professionally enjoyable. I was charged to lead my colleagues in dreaming about the future of CCS.
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