Our Approach

We need adults who know how to work together to solve problems

What is the Critical Skills Classroom?

The Critical Skills approach builds powerful lessons in classrooms at all levels. It combines experiential learning, problem-based learning, and rigorous high standards within an intentionally created collaborative learning community, creating classrooms that many educators imagine but can’t quite put together. It is the “how” in answer to the “what” of powerful classroom practice. And it was created, continues to be created, by practicing classroom teachers