Curriculum

Curriculum Highlights 

Douglas MacArthur is a Responsive Classroom School. Our academic, encore and social-emotional programs work in conjunction to teach the whole child. 

Highlights include:

• Art instruction with a certified art teacher once a week
• Balanced Literacy with Fountas and Pinnel Benchmark Assessments
• Colonial Fair - Grade 4
• Daily Morning News/TV Studio
• Eight mobile laptop carts serve classrooms
• English Learners (EL) program
• Foss Science
• Instruction in family life education at levels appropriate to age
• Instrumental music, band and orchestra, beginning in grade 4
• LD Resource with inclusion
• Math Expressions and Hands on Standards
• Physical education classes by a certified P.E. teacher twice a week
• Reading Specialists
• Special Education: resource and inclusion
• Speech, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy
• Talented and Gifted (TAG) program
• Vocal music instruction with a certified music teacher once a week
• Weekly library visits