Key Features of a Gateway Education
A Rich and Challenging Academic Experience
Gateway’s core academic subjects of language arts, math, science, and social studies are enriched and integrated with specialty programs in the arts, life lab science, Spanish language and culture, physical education and technology.
Meaningful, Engaged Learning
Using inquiry-based methods, our faculty helps our students discover and research their own questions. Together they participate in hands-on, minds-on, project-based learning. These teaching practices facilitate in-depth understanding, mastery of concepts and exploration of ideas. Gateway students learn how to learn, to research, to reason, to solve problems and to communicate their ideas effectively.
An Emphasis on Communication and Reasoning Skills
Gateway strives to graduate excellent thinkers and communicators. Our teachers help our students learn to listen carefully and to speak articulately, to read and to think with a critical mind, to write fluently and creatively, to make and defend a logical argument, to understand and express quantitative ideas clearly and accurately, and to present their work publicly with skill and confidence.
A Passion for Learning
At Gateway, we want our 8th grade graduates to be as excited about learning as they were when they came to us in kindergarten. Our curriculum and teaching methods are designed to support and fuel a child’s natural curiosity to understand the world. Our faculty is sensitive to the individual and developmental learning needs of our students and presents each student with the appropriate level of challenge. Research shows that these practices result in the most effective and long-lasting motivation for achievement and support a life-long love of learning
Character Education
The Gateway education fosters the development of self-awareness, self-confidence, and self-discipline, the ability to cooperate, collaborate and resolve conflicts, a desire to excel, to create, and to contribute; and a commitment to personal, social and environmental responsibility.
A Collaborative Learning Community
Gateway’s dedicated teachers and staff, motivated students, and involved parents work together to create an excellent academic experience within a school culture characterized by kindness, mutual respect, and responsibility. We have an outstanding learning community committed to educating children.
