Unlike most schools, Prisma does not expect its teachers to also serve as curriculum developers. Our Learning Coaches focus on building bonds with kids, giving them personalized, actionable feedback on their work, and building community.
Our interdisciplinary, project-based curriculum is built by a team of innovative, experienced designers. They've brought to Prisma a range of experiences creating cutting-edge curriculum for organizations like the George Lucas Foundation, Achievement First, major school districts like BPS with TNTP, Sesame Workshop, Scratch, and the Virginia Department of Education. Our team has expertise in all subjects from literacy to math to coding to art, and they're laser-focused on designing projects, workshops, and missions that are 'hard fun.'
Each piece of curriculum your learner experiences goes through multiple rounds of edits and aligns to our own Learning Framework that includes our own competencies as well as key standards from Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, international standards, and more. We also ask learners what they think about the curriculum and use their ideas to create even better learning experiences!