The East Boston EEC offers a surround care program in which children stay until 4:35 pm.  Our school provides a balanced early literacy program for two hours every day, 60 minutes of math, and a Writers’ Workshop. Children participate in whole and small group activities.  

This year, we are working with the Museum of Fine Arts on a Visual Thinking Strategies project (VTS). VTS teaches thinking through art observations and discussion. We also have a partnership with Tufts University’s Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development to work with children and teachers on robotics. This program explores the creation of novel human-computer interaction techniques with technology in early elementary schools.  The students develop their own robots and, in the process, they learn how to program a computer to execute a series of tasks.

Special Features

• Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the nation’s leading organization of early childhood professionals
• Support for at-risk students through Reading Recovery, in-school tutoring, and computerized reading programs
• Classroom libraries with more than 500 books
• Literacy-based program integrating music and science into all subject areas
• Robotics and engineering program
• Computers in every class, as well as in the library and staff rooms
• Media Center
• Math lending library with more than 200 games and books for families to take home
• Weekly take-home book program, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) book distributions, and workshops to promote parent support at home.

Special academic programs

• Five Early Childhood (K0/K1) classrooms
• Inclusion programs for K2 and grade 1 where children with and without disabilities learn together with individual support

Before and after school programs in our building

• Free surround care, 7:30 am to 4:30 pm. After school program continues the academic day with projects and monthly themes, arts and crafts, dramatic play, songs, and cooking.