OUR VISION
Our students won’t just survive school, they will thrive and harness their creativity, innovativeness, and unique abilities to share with their communities and the world.
OUR MISSION
Skylar Hadden strives to provide strength-based, personalized education to K-12 students struggling with mild to moderate disabilities such as:
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including High-Functioning Autism (HFA), Asperger’s Syndrome (AS), Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD),
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),
- Emotional Behavior Disorders, and/or
- Learning Disabilities
to help them become passionate learners who have many educational opportunities open to them.
OUR METHOD
- Multi-Age & Multi-Ability
- Focus on mild to moderate
- Staff communicates with professionals to help student achieve and maintain stability
- Support Peer Modeling
- Provide Low Student to Teacher Ratio (6:1 or lower)
- Develop students’ sense of belonging
- Build a community
- Students are supportive and accepted/accepting
- Promote Intra- and Inter-Emotional Awareness (empathy)
- Participate in Group Meetings morning, mid-day, afternoon where Individualized goals are part of group plan for the day
- Structure Dynamic groups, social interaction
- Support the Home/School Partnership and Communication
- Nurture a caring and compassionate environment
- Facilitate Social Awareness
- Credentialed and Experienced Staff
- Recognize and leverage developmental stages
- Leverage flexibility and collaboration amongst staff
- Teach via multi-sensory
- Apply the Scientific Method to teaching and learning daily
- Provide appropriate and in-the-moment intervention
- Incorporate strategies from various research-based programs; no two students are alike
- Practice Positive Discipline
- Support transitioning into larger environments (generalize learning into the broader world)
- Individualized Teaching and Learning
- Make the abstract concrete via Experiential Learning (field trips, role playing, hands-on activities, etc.)
- Structure free time for Success (free time choices pre-determined by staff)
- Specifically support Executive Functioning and Social Cognitive learning
- Apply creative methodologies to teaching Common Core
- Customize and adapt Homework