Spectrum Progressive School

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Welcome to Spectrum Progressive School of Rockford!

Spectrum School has served the Rockford area since 1967, offering a genuine alternative to traditional education. As a pioneer in the area of educational change, we are dedicated to staying current on, and employing, the cutting-edge instructional methods proven through research. At Spectrum, we believe all children are unique. We believe every child learns in a different way and every child has undiscovered gifts, talents, and potential.

No matter what their background, the desire to learn is the common bond they share. Spectrum currently enrolls students from preschool through high school. Our 12 to 1 student to teacher ratio, multi-age classrooms, and the most sophisticated multiple intelligences learning program in the region allows us to understand the needs and strengths of each child. Spectrum views learning as a lifelong adventure that will help students succeed, no matter what opportunities and challenges they encounter.

Every brain is unique. Shouldn’t each child’s education be personal and unique as well? When you consider the whole child, current educational research and 21st century skills needed for the future, what should school be like? What do you want the end result of your child’s education to be? The factory model of schooling created in the early 1900’s is still the model used in traditional programs, but producing workers for industries that no longer thrive and creating direction followers is no longer relevant. Most of the jobs today’s children will have in their lifetimes do not exist today. How do we tackle this issue?

Spectrum School:

  • Serves students ages 3 through high school with a 12:1 student/teacher ratio
  • Is based on the educational theories of John Dewey (active learning) , Jean Piaget (learning is personal and developmental) and Howard Gardner (Multiple Intelligences- We are smart in many ways)
  • Uses a personalized approach to learning
  • Integrated technology
  • Offers Spanish for students 3 and older, and Japanese from ages 10 and up
  • Offers band and guitar in addition to our general music program
  • Encourages students to be actively involved in making, executing and reviewing their learning
  • Uses an arts integrated, interdisciplinary approach to learning that honors the many ways our students are gifted
  • Assesses students on their own j-shaped curve, eliminating a learning ‘ceiling’ or negative competition
  • Promotes active engagement, reflective learning and collaboration
  • Students consciously and deliberately examine their own performance in different contexts in order to evaluate their strengths and areas in need of work
  • Every person in the building is both a learner and a teacher
  • Develops strong relationships with families so that a team of adults support the learning process

Come experience our unique, progressive program of active, brain-based learning that recognizes the social, emotional and cognitive needs of every learner.

 

 

 

 

 

Visit us during our Open House dates on

January 28, 2012 from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Learn more about Spectrum Progressive High School by joining us for a special presentation

at noon on 1/28/12.

February 16, 2012 from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Check us out at spectrumschool.org and call 815.877.1600 to schedule a tour today – we want your child to love school!