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Saratoga Academy of the Arts & Sciences offers a faculty-designed, standards-based curriculum, fully integrating the arts and sciences, with an emphasis on developing critical thinking, questioning and problem solving skills.
Specific grade level curricular objectives are achieved primarily through small group instruction. The curriculum is designed to enable each student to achieve his/her maximum potential. The intellectual foundation for instruction is based on Howard Gardner's research on multiple intelligences and is geared toward the individual needs of each student.
Advanced literacy is the key component to the curricular objectives for the Saratoga Academy of the Arts & Sciences, beginning in our Pre-Kindergarten programs and continuing throughout the primary grade levels. Literacy is taught across all content areas. Students learn to read using a "balanced" language arts program that teaches whole language, phonics, literature and writing. Saratoga Academy students read at a level 1.5 years beyond that of their counterparts in other Capital District schools.
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