Putting Academic Learning into a Bigger Picture of Personal Growth
Academic, social-emotional and neurophysiological growth are addressed together using a data-driven approach to understanding and addressing the challenges this child needs our help to solve to improve their learning and their life-lived experiences. Each of our students receives a personalized program, customized to help them access academic curriculum through their strengths while we work to build up the skills that are holding them back across not just academic but social-emotional and physio spheres as well.
Each child’s academic instruction is differentiated using the data in their profiles, as part of a holistic approach to addressing the challenges holding them back.
In order to give our students access to the challenging course material appropriate to their strengths, our teachers break down task demands according to the myriad ‘splinter skills’ that they require, and then differentiate them to reduce demand from any “Not Yet Skills” that are still developing, so that the student can have the chance to experience their own strengths.
Instead of fighting kids to sit still, we leverage movement & sensory input to accelerate learning, through our exclusive Body-Informed Learning.
Research shows that kids’ engagement, retention, organization of thought and regulation all improve when learning is paired with motor & sensory input. We’ve built an OT-directed kinesthetic curriculum putting that science into action to increase students’ abilities to access their strengths while modeling self-care strategies that are essential for the physical demands of the knowledge economy.
We help students overcome resistance to learning activities through a trauma-informed approach that validates their responses and helps them understand—and overcome—their fears.
Twice exceptional kids often become resistant to learning tasks outside their interests. We understand this as a fear-driven response, and apply a trauma-informed approach to help students overcome them.