Social and Emotional Learning

Social and emotional learning will be taught weekly/biweekly and is focused on social-emotional development. The curriculum is designed to reduce aggression and promote social competence. Students will develop skills that are central for healthy social and emotional  development such as empathy, impulse control, problem solving, and anger management. The program will also focus on ideals such as, but not limited to, the following: personal integrity and honesty, respect, trustworthiness, patriotism, citizenship, compassion, and pride.

Single-Gender Classrooms

Spartanburg Prep will provide a single-gender education for core instruction*. Research supports that both boys and girls perform significantly better in single-gender classrooms. Students are more likely to be better behaved, find learning more enjoyable, the curriculum more relevant, and have a significantly more positive attitude toward learning. Students are also found to have higher educational aspirations, more confidence in their abilities, develop better organizational skills, and are more involved in the classroom activities. 

_{*Some middle-school honors classes may be co-ed.}

Instruction Advancement & Intervention

Each student’s daily schedule will include intervention or advancement time. SPS will provide high quality instruction and intervention matched to each students’ needs. Teachers will monitor progress frequently to make decisions about change in instruction or goals, and apply child response data to important educational decisions, such as need for remediation or advancement. Lack of progress will lead to change in intervention.