Capital District YMCA at Lincoln Elementary

The Responsive Classroom is an approach to elementary teaching that emphasizes social emotional and academic growth in a strong and safe school community through a variety of common classroom practices such as a morning meeting student-designed rules and encouraging independence and creativity. The goal is to strengthen student learning.

Seven principles guide the Responsive Classroom approach:

The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum. How children learn is as important as what they learn: Process and content go hand in hand. The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction. To be successful academically and socially children need a set of social skills: cooperation assertion responsibility empathy and self-control. Knowing the children we teach-individually culturally and developmentally-is as important as knowing the content we teach. Knowing the families of the children we teach and working with them as partners is essential to children’s education. How the adults at school work together is as important as their individual competence: Lasting change begins with the adult community. This facility is authorized to administer medications

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Child Ages:

5 years - 11 years

Licenses & Accreditations:

New York State Office of Children & Family Services -

Hours of Operation:

8:45 A.M. TO 3:15 P.M.