We are not a Montessori school. At Columbia Academy, we utilize The Creative Curriculum, which is a play-based curriculum with a whole-child approach to education that teaches children to be creative, confident thinkers. Children are offered opportunities for hands-on exploration and discovery that help build lifelong critical thinking skills and foster confidence. Children with similar birthdays are intentionally grouped together to promote and enhance their social, emotional, and academic development. This facilitates the evolution and strengthening of those peer-to-peer relationships since they will have been with the same children from the start of the program to the end. Our curriculum is tailored to meet the children where they are academically on an individual level. All activities, whether done in a large group, small group, or one-on-one setting, have questions and activities tailored to the group that they are working with.