Our teachers and specialists at White Clay view behaviors comprehensively and in a holistic brain/body paradigm. We rename our classrooms nests, because it is only in such a nurturing and safe setting that authentic emotional healing and growth can occur. In our ES Nest, we understand the difference between behavioral compliance and building the capacity for emotional regulation that underlies behavioral control. Through our training in therapeutic crisis intervention, our staff approaches each child from a bottom up perspective to understand the origins of our students'  mild to moderate behaviors that have impeded their success in a traditional classroom. This approach combined with both speech and language therapy and occupational therapy create an environment of safety, regulation, engagement and friendships for our children. 

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We understand that behavioral challenges are a child's way of  communicating and coping with sensory challenges. Our occupational and speech therapists work with our students to understand each of our student's sensory systems. This provides us with  window into potential triggers and a helpful set of strategies to better help our kids cope with the anxieties they encounter in their environment. 

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With this information, we create an emotional support plan for each of our students as we implement a full academic curriculum across all areas. We will then provide our RTI Tier 3 academic interventions in areas where they show both cognitive deficits and areas of strength. This small classroom of up to 8 students, stresses building student and community relationships through therapeutic approaches and collaborative academic programming. We provide our kids with enriching and engaging activities which serve to support : emotional regualtion,  attention, coping skills, pragmatic communication skills, social interactions, critical thinking, executive function, flexibility and recovery skills. We have the following classrooms in our Sasquatch Nests:

 

ES 1 (grades 1 to 3)

ES 2 (grades 3 to 4)

ES 3 (grades 4 to 6)

ES 4 (grades 6 to 8)

​We pull from the following curriculums for each of our student's appropriate academic programming. 

     

 

    Elementary

          Reading

• Explode/Beyond the Code

• SRA Reading Mastery

• Verbalizing Visualizing

• Wilson Fundations

• Orten Gillingham- ISpire

• Attainment’s Early Literacy Program

• Reading A to Z

• Road to Reading

• Reading Assist

• Attainment Literacy Series

 

Language Arts

• Inspiration

• Just Write Workbook Series

• SRA Language for Learning

• Writing A to Z

• Wordly Wise

• Keystone Reading

 

Math

• Touch Math

• Attainment’s Hands on Math Series         

• Envision Math

• Everyday Math

• Splash Learn​

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