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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 f
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
🌞🌈💦🌳 Ready for August at Peconic Community Summer! Another month to splash, play, explore and take the time to enjoy a slowed-down North Fork summer outside. Summer at Peconic Community School | Full Day | Half Day | Ages 3 - Grade 4 | Slow Summer | North Fork Summer | Outdoor Summer | June 29 - August 21
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
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
📐When they learned the ratios that scaled the towers – our math and literacy curriculum lays the foundation for big builds and deeper thinking.  Coming up: Academic Structure at PCS. Part 3 of our Learning Series. Math and Literacy | Curriculum | PCS Learning Series | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School
🎥 Answering  your questions about PCS curriculum – with our Director of Teaching and Learning, Shannon Timoney! We’re so grateful to everyone who submitted questions so far. We’re working through them in the coming days!  🙋Do you have a question? Comment or DM, and Shannon’s happy to hop on and answer. We don’t claim to be experts in everything, but we sure do love talking about what we do. And as we head into year 15, we have the privilege of seeing real results from the approaches we’ve developed.  Today Shannon outlines our math and literacy curriculum, looking at: • daily math and literacy blocks  • the scopes and sequences we’ve built • balanced math • research-based reading instruction • and developing solid skills to support deep learning. 📣 More next week! Your Curriculum Questions | Math and Literacy | PCS Approach | Peconic Community School
Swipe ➡️ for an inside look at  our method for making the North Fork – it’s people, places, history and culture – a launching pad for our studies.  🌊 From field work and real-world research to consulting experts and work
Swipe ➡️ for an inside look at  our method for making the North Fork – it’s people, places, history and culture – a launching pad for our studies.  🌊 From field work and real-world research to consulting experts and working with local leaders to address real community issues, our approach to place-based education combines hands-on learning experiences in the community with classroom academic study for learning that has a lasting impact.  When what they’re learning at school is drawn directly from their lives and their environment – and takes them out into the field to find their own answers – students are  engaged and invested.  We’re so grateful to the wide network of community partners who have worked with us over the past 14 years, many of them year after year. These are industry experts, community leaders, government officials, artists, farmers, scientists, historians, and professionals of all kinds who have guided and shaped our student’s learning with their expertise and passion.  💫Want to see more of what a PCS education looks like in practice? Still to come in the series – academic structure at PCS, learner-centered education, community-minded learning, and a closer look at our trimester-long Integrated Studies Unit. Be sure to follow. Place-Based Learning | PCS Learning Series | PCS Curriculum | Field Experience | Hands-On Research | Community Partnerships | Expert Guidance | Real-World Impacts | Peconic Community School
🌊 From Montauk Point to New York Harbor, our students ventured into the waters and onto the shores during our maritime transportation unit to seek out shipwrecks, climb to lantern rooms, visit working harbors and steer ships.  ⛴️ Our youngest students took a private turn at the wheel of a Shelter Island ferry to see how boats connect communities. 2nd graders set sail on a schooner in Peconic Bay to learn about the mechanics of sailing. And Middle Schoolers sampled water quality aboard a SUNY Maritime College research vessel. Field research is a crucial part of PCS’s place-based approach, with some of the trimester’s most meaningful learning happening well outside the classroom walls.  ➡️ Check out Part 2 of our PCS Learning Series – Place-Based Learning – to see how we make use of our local landscape as a living classroom. Record-Breaking Research | Field Work | Place-Based Learning | PCS Learning Series | Hands-On Learning | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School
✨ Be part of the circus this summer! Come learn aerial silks, juggling, acrobatics and clowning from the stars of @circussplendiferous at Peconic Community School. They’re bringing their traveling circus to campus for a week-long Circus School August 24-28 for kids ages 7-17. Attendees will perfect their own circus act to perform at week’s end for a live audience.  🎪 Don’t miss this! Link in bio to register.⬆️ Circus School | Summer Program | One Week | August 24-28 | Circus Training | Live Performance | Peconic Community School
When we founded PCS 14 years ago, we saw that our children’s future was becoming harder to predict. What jobs they would hold, what technologies they would encounter, and what human interactions would look like was changing rapidly. With an uncertain future in mind, we set out to create a school that would not only prepare our students for what might lie ahead, but would give them the tools to be today’s changemakers. Today the landscape continues to shift, but our vision holds. In an increasingly digital world, engaging kids in hands-on learning that connects them to their place and their community couldn’t be more important.  At PCS, students are grounded in integrated projects that grow from real-world inquiry, and they’re building the critical and creative thinking skills that help them make sense of the many inputs streaming at them daily. The result is kids who can call on their own ideas and experiences to make a real impact even as AI, generated responses and automated replies become the norm.  We’re excited by what our students are doing. Real-world project work, a connection to community, and a place where kids’ ideas shape the learning add up to an education to meet this moment. A lot is changing around us. But the children still have big questions, still want to get out into the field, and still want to build things with their hands. Let’s give them a place to learn what the world can be. Progressive Education | Hands-On Learning | Rooted in Place | Connected to Community | Learning for a Changing Future | Peconic Community School
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 f
🌞🌈💦🌳 Ready for August at Peconic Community Summer! Another month to splash, play, explore and take the time to enjoy a slowed-down North Fork summer outside. Summer at Peconic Community School | Full Day | Half Day | Ages 3 - Grade 4 | Slow Summ
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
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
📐When they learned the ratios that scaled the towers – our math and literacy curriculum lays the foundation for big builds and deeper thinking.  Coming up: Academic Structure at PCS. Part 3 of our Learning Series. Math and Literacy | Cu
🎥 Answering  your questions about PCS curriculum – with our Director of Teaching and Learning, Shannon Timoney! We’re so grateful to everyone who submitted questions so far. We’re working through them in the coming days!&nbsp
Swipe ➡️ for an inside look at  our method for making the North Fork – it’s people, places, history and culture – a launching pad for our studies.  🌊 From field work and real-world research to consulting experts and work
🌊 From Montauk Point to New York Harbor, our students ventured into the waters and onto the shores during our maritime transportation unit to seek out shipwrecks, climb to lantern rooms, visit working harbors and steer ships.  ⛴️ Our youngest
✨ Be part of the circus this summer! Come learn aerial silks, juggling, acrobatics and clowning from the stars of @circussplendiferous at Peconic Community School. They’re bringing their traveling circus to campus for a week-long Circus School
When we founded PCS 14 years ago, we saw that our children’s future was becoming harder to predict. What jobs they would hold, what technologies they would encounter, and what human interactions would look like was changing rapidly. With an unc
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