The Middle and Upper School Resource Program empowers students with learning resources and insight into their own learning styles, coupled with proven strategies to maximize learning experiences and improve academic performance. Teachers assist and encourage students with identified learning differences, supporting their acquisition of selected academic strategies and selected study skills to become more competent and confident.
The Resource Program provides parents with information about their child’s unique learning differences, explaining strategies and study skills they can employ at home to support their child’s affective and cognitive growth. The Resource teachers share research findings about the causes and issues associated with learning disabilities and learning differences, promoting dialogue, perception, and appreciation of the range of developmental differences of middle and upper school students and the factors that affect students’ learning.
Resource teachers integrate themselves into classroom activities, identifying and assessing learning differences and the progress of individual students as the curriculum progresses. They provide strategies and interventions while working closely with the classroom teacher as well as within small groups within the Resource room.
The program also provides faculty with information on learning processes, “best” practices for effective classroom management, and instruction that can help students succeed socially, emotionally, and academically. As a part of the process, students and faculty reflect to evaluate the effectiveness of planned interventions. The program features inclusion, stand-alone academic strategies classes, a summer academy, counseling, and after school tutoring.