SICCS Plan for Teaching and Learning: Right from the start.
Introductory note from Ellen Icolari, SICCS Founder, Trustee, and Consultant in School Culture Development

At Staten Island Community Charter School, we strive not simply to meet but to exceed New York State Learning Standards.

We base our curricular approach on children’s real-world experiences and on who they are as individuals and as members of a family and a community, including their experience of our community’s diverse cultures; its institutions, broadly defined; and its traditions and natural surroundings. Moving beyond the classroom into the world brings the curriculum to life.

The concepts and skills developed out of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) guide our students’ social-emotional development and promote collaboration, communication and community-building, as school, parents and trustees work together to help SICCS achieve its goals for our students.