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Caraway Overview

Caraway is an alternative K-9 program offered in Edmonton as a site-based program.

The Caraway program offers project-based, child-centred learning, help students from Kindergarten to Grade 9 make meaningful connections, and provides opportuniutes for rich cenceptual development.

Students are encouraged to:

  • Challenge themselves and exceed their own expectations
  • Work together in mixed-age roupings
  • Learn in a hands-on environment

Parents / families are encouraged to:

  • Lend their expertise to the classroom to support their children's learning
  • Participate in regular social gatherings
  • Join in classroom activities whenever they are available

Caraway takes advantage of the many researched benefits of mixed-age groupings across grade levels. Older students are encouraged to be leaders and help in the learning process for younger students, who in turn thrive on their attention. Students may benefit from having the same teacher for two or three years in a row.

The Caraway program is offered in a classroom environment, four to five days a week, and is available in Edmonton only.

Since 1975, Caraway has emphasized creative approaches to learning and a strong sense of community.

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Caraway is an alternative K-9 public school program in Edmonton AB. We follow an Edmonton Public School Board schedule however how we deliver the material is what makes us different. The big ideas of the curriculum are covered in a project based model and hands-on environment in multi-age classrooms with particular attention to social emotional learning. 
 
Caraway focuses on developing creative risk-takers with passion and global responsibility for a rapidly changing world. 
 
VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE:
February 23rd 2021 and March 17th 2021
6:30 p.m. via Zoom 
Details TBA via Caraway Website: 
 



 

 


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