🌳 With a 10+ acre campus, 30 field experiences per year, a wide network of community partners and a well-established project-based curriculum, there are so many ways that Peconic Community School keeps learning grounded, engaging and powerfully relevant for our students. Even in a culture of screen reliance and digital dominance, students are still asking big questions, still ready to head out and find their own answers and still wanting to build things with their own hands. As we head into year 15, we’re more equipped than ever to answer their call. We would be happy to talk with you about what this kind of hands-on, real-world learning can mean for your child. Please reach out by DM or via the link in bio to our co-founder Liz Casey to schedule a meeting or come to campus for a tour. We’re enrolling for limited openings for age 3 through Grade 8. Real-World Education | Hands-On Learning | Project-Based Learning | Field Research | Inquiry-Driven Learning | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

You don’t have to choose between academics and child-led learning. At PCS, students spend each trimester taking on projects that challenge them to ask big questions, seek out their own answers, head out into the field for research and integrate their classroom math and literacy learning. Our curriculum aligns with NY State Next Generation Standards while still making room for student inquiry to drive our Integrated Units. It’s our job to match the skills they need with the projects they want to pursue. If you’re thinking about choosing Peconic Community School, we invite you to visit us on campus and meet with our co-founder Liz Casey to find out what a difference this kind of learning can make for your child and your family. DM or reach out via the link in bio. Academic Rigor | Child-Led Learning | Curiosity | Creativity | Hands-On Learning | Project-Based Learning | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

Our Integrated Studies Units are the cornerstone of a PCS education, and Director of Teaching and Learning, Shannon Timoney, shares how they unfold, including: • how topics are chosen • what disciplines they cover • how they integrated academic learning with project work, and • what the culminating Celebration of Learning looks like. Find out why these Units are so meaningful to our students, and what kind of learning they encourage. We’re happy to have the opportunity to talk about your curriculum questions – please keep them coming! DM your curriculum question, and we’ll have Shannon address it during our next filming.🎥 PCS Curriculum | Your Curriculum Questions | Integrated Studies Unit | Academic Disciplines | Project=Based Learning | Student-Driven Inquiry | Hands-On Learning | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

Peconic Community School alumni met with our new Head of School, Rachel Gomez Peterson, to talk about what parts of their PCS experience meant the most, what they still carry with them from PCS, and what they want to see for the school moving forward. Community, connection,and being truly known at PCS were clear throughlines. Nearly everyone touched on how meaningful it was to feel seen and valued at PCS. Whether it was their interests being taken seriously, or their opinion mattering, or their identity being accepted, they felt like people took the time to get to know them and made room for them to be themselves at school. Alums also talked a lot about their role as students at PCS, about being able to shape what and how they learned, and feeling truly engaged in what they were studying, especially during our Integrated Units. That excitement about learning and diving deep stuck with them even as they moved on to more traditional class settings. They had lots of advice for Rachel: make time to know the students, hear what they have to say, let students make decisions, trust them, keep learning engaging, find new topics, (but keep the favorites!) and have fun! We’re so grateful to our alumni for taking the time to help Peconic Community School grow forward. Knowing what makes an impact on our students and hearing the value of the PCS experience directly from the kids who grew up in it, is priceless. They know better than anyone what this all means. Alumni Perspective | Growing Forward | Community | Connection | Engagement | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

Hands-on project work isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s a fundamental part of learning at Peconic Community School, and that engagement with a subject – the act of making and building and constructing something out of our research and inquiry – is what makes learning last. Even years later, our students remember the Brooklyn Bridge they built during an Architecture Unit, or the melting glacier they modeled during the Freshwater Unit, or the Big Bang re-enactment they animated during our Astronomy Unit. And those skills that they learned to do it – whether it’s ratios for scale models or melting points or geologic timelines or video editing – live right there too, because they built it all themselves. If you think this is the way your child would learn best, we invite you to learn more about Peconic Community School. We’re enrolling for limited openings in Pre-K through Grade 8 and would love to welcome you for a tour of campus with our co-founder, Liz Casey. Reach out via the link in our bio. ⬆️ Hands-On Learning | Project-Based Learning | Build It By Hand | Learn It By Heart | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

There’s nothing like learning from a working expert — a grown up from the community who’s passionate about what they do and eager to excite interest in young students. We’re so grateful to facilitators like Courtney, Anna, Noelle, Frank, Erika, Owen and Connor who are not only guiding students in their craft, but introducing them to the real-world applications of their work. We’re working on a new slate of fall after-school offerings for students in Early Childhood through Grade 8 that will, as always, be open to all students, not just PCS kids, and draw from the passions and talents of our North Fork neighbors. Details and registration coming in a few weeks. Afternoon Spark Sessions | Peconic Community Summer | Hands-On Learning | Fall After-School | Programs Forming

There’s a different way to learn on the North Fork. Peconic Community School is one of the East End’s leading progressive schools, housed on a 10+ acre campus in downtown Cutchogue and now entering its 15th school year. Serving students from age 3 through grade 8, Peconic Community School offers a hands-on, real-world education that engages students in meaningful, purpose-driven learning that lasts long after the school year ends. Learning at PCS is rooted in place, built around real projects, and shaped by the children themselves. We would love for you to see it for yourself. Send a DM or email our co-founder Liz Casey to book a tour: linked in bio or liz@peconiccommunityschool.org. We’re enrolling for limited openings for Fall 2026. Want to dive deeper? Use the link in bio to join our email list and find out more about our approach, our programs and how we learn. ⬆️ Progressive Education | Hands-On Learning | Project-Based Learning | Rooted in Place | Connected to Community | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

Every parent wants to know how their child is doing. Are they learning? Are they on grade level? How do you know? Shannon, our Director of Teaching and Learning, talks today about how we assess and communicate student progress. She covers: • facilitator observation • student work and presentations • applied understanding • direct skill assessment • narrative student reports and what it means to focus directly on student learning, rather than the achievement of a number or letter grade. ⬇️ Comment with any questions – we know that this is an important topic for parents and fellow educators alike! Shannon will be back next week to cover how our trimester-long Integrated Units work. 🙋 Do you have a curriculum question you’d like Shannon to answer? Comment or DM, and we’ll get her mic-ed up! PCS Curriculum | Authentic Assessment | Student Progress | No Grades | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

Swipe ➡️ to see how we prioritize math and literacy learning in our curriculum. Math and literacy skills are crucial tools for advanced learning in the classroom and beyond, and students deserve dedicated time and instruction to help them grow into confident, capable mathematicians, readers, writers and speakers. Rather than rely on a boxed curriculum or a publisher’s pacing, we’ve created our own math and literacy scopes and sequences that align with NY State’s Next Generation Standards and let teachers differentiate based on the students in front of them. Math balances fluency, conceptual understanding and application. Literacy integrates research-based decoding and phonemic strategies for emergent readers and literary study for older students to build facility and nurture a love of reading. Academic Structure | Math Education | Literacy Arts | PCS Curriculum | Learning Series | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

27685 Main Road/PO Box 752, Cutchogue NY 11935(631) 734-8290INFO@PECONICCOMMUNITYSCHOOL.ORG

27685 Main Road/PO Box 752, Cutchogue NY 11935(631) 734-8290
INFO@PECONICCOMMUNITYSCHOOL.ORG