Seth's Sasquatches
Emotional Support Elementary/Middle School

"Social behavior and the capacity to manage challenge are dependent on the neural regulation of physiological state."
Dr. Stephen Porges

Our teachers and specialists at White Clay view behaviors comprehensively and in a holistic brain/body paradigm. In our ES pod, 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.

We understand that sometimes behavioral challenges are a child's body's way of 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.

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 therapeutic classroom incorporates a high level of behavior management techniques throughout our kids’ day in order to regualate: emotion, attention, coping skills, pragmatic communication skills, social interactions, critical thinking, executive function, flexibility and recovery skills. We have the following classrooms in Seth's Sasquatch Pod:

ES Primary 1 (grades 1 to 3)

ES Primary 2 (grades 4 to 6)

ES Middle School (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
Headsprout
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
Modern Curriculum Press
Everyday Math
Splash Learn

In science we were able to create bubbles inside of bubbles by experimenting with the cohesiveness of water molecules. We figured out that we could create up to 4 bubbles inside a bubble as long a we inserted a straw that was wet...and we could keep the bubble intact even after we poked it with our fingers...as long as our fingers were wet! Bubbles are the best!