Curriculum & Instruction

Responsive classrooms are learning environments in which teachers meet students where they are and help them achieve success by setting rigorous goals for all students, assessing student progress and by empowering students to be agents in their own learning. At the heart of our responsive approach is our district's focus on Multi-Tiered Support Systems (MTSS). 

The MTSS approach recognizes that students do not all start in the same place or learn at the same rate. By intervening early and often, the MTSS approach ensures that small gaps do not become insurmountable and that gaps and moments of struggle are supported fully. At all ages and levels of ability, our teachers employ high-quality instruction that ensures students have access to small group instruction during lessons and at other points throughout the day, such as intervention blocks at CRS, study skills, after-school help at AMS, as well as period 9 at AMS and AHS.

In our ongoing work on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, we believe that classrooms must be a “welcoming and affirming place” for all students, not just in terms of how students are treated and how they treat each other, but also in ways that students see themselves in the curriculum itself.  Every student’s background, culture, abilities and identities are seen as assets to the learning process. 

Inclusion also means that we make every effort for all students to be and to feel fully connected to all aspects of our learning community both inside and outside the classroom.  This work includes helping students to learn from and to value the perspectives and experiences of others so that they can play an active role in building an inclusive Ardsley for all.

Responsive classrooms are learning environments in which teachers meet students where they are and help them achieve success by setting rigorous goals for all students, assessing student progress and by empowering students to be agents in their own learning. At the heart of our responsive approach is our district's focus on Multi-Tiered Support Systems (MTSS). 

The MTSS approach recognizes that students do not all start in the same place or learn at the same rate. By intervening early and often, the MTSS approach ensures that small gaps do not become insurmountable and that gaps and moments of struggle are supported fully.

At all ages and levels of ability, our teachers employ high-quality instruction that ensures students have access to small group instruction during lessons and at other points throughout the day, such as intervention blocks at CRS, study skills, after-school help at AMS, as well as period 9 at AMS and AHS.