At CSFR, our preschool approach is inspired by the principles of HighScope, an international benchmark with more than 50 years of educational research supported by Yale University. From this perspective, we promote active learning in which girls participate consciously, make decisions, and construct meaning through their experiences.
This approach places girls at the center of the learning process, strengthening their autonomy, confidence, and self-esteem by inviting them to explore, plan, think critically, and solve challenges in creative and positive ways, always supported by their teachers.
HighScope integrates clear routines, a structured environment, and ongoing assessment, ensuring meaningful learning. It also actively involves families in the educational process, fostering holistic development across cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions.
A model designed for our girls’ success!
The Plan–Do–Review process inspires the way we support learning in our preschool. From this perspective, we invite girls to plan what they want to do, carry it out, and then reflect on their experience, promoting active and meaningful learning.
This process encourages decision-making, mindful thinking, and the ability to learn from experience, strengthening autonomy and confidence from the early years, always with the close guidance of their teachers.
Girls plan what they want to do during work time, including the area they will visit, the materials they will use, and who they will play with.
Girls work on their plans or new activities of interest, with the goal of achieving their project. Teachers act as guides in the process.
The girls review what they have done and learned, and share their experiences as a group with their peers and teachers, reflecting on the process and results.
Inspired by the HighScope approach, we support girls in active learning that invites them to plan, do, and reflect on their experiences. Through this process, students explore, make decisions, and build knowledge through practice and curiosity.
Teachers play a key role as guides, supporting learning through open-ended questions and creating a safe environment that encourages inquiry and critical thinking. In this way, skills such as autonomy, problem-solving, teamwork, and emotional self-regulation are strengthened, connecting girls’ interests with meaningful educational purposes.
Girls plan, decide and reflect, strengthening their independence.
Encourage problem solving, experimenting and developing logical thinking.
Connect personal interests with educational activities that drive deep learning.
Emotional self-regulation and constructive conflict resolution.
Stimulate imagination and symbolic play, helping girls develop social and emotional skills.
Promoting problem solving, imagination and the construction of spatial thinking.
Promoting a love of reading, developing language skills and expanding vocabulary.
Encouraging creative expression, developing motor skills and reinforcing concepts of rhythm, patterns and coordination.
Encouraging creativity, self-expression and fine motor coordination through activities such as drawing, painting and modeling.
Stimulating curiosity and critical thinking through exploration and experimentation of the natural world.
