Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Odyssey School
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The Odyssey School is located in Stevenson Maryland, nearby to Baltimore, and is primarily for dyslexic students in grades 1-8. The campus is on forty-two acres of beautiful rolling hills. Begun in 1994 with 20 kids, it now stands at nearly 160 students. Odyssey is one [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Howard School
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The Howard School is located in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. There are over 125 students at this K-12 day school for students with learning disabilities. The largest percentage of kids who go to school here are bright kids with a dyslexic profile. The school is organized into [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Oakland School
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The Oakland School is a boarding and day school for students with learning disabilities and is located in Keswick, Virginia. Keswick has a very rural look to it though it’s not that far from the University in Charlottesville. Originally founded to serve the needs of dyslexic [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Dec 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Chelsea School
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In Silver Springs Maryland, not far from the University of Maryland, is the Chelsea School. Chelsea was started in 1976 and is for students with learning disabilities in grades 5-12. The majority of their students have language-based learning struggles and most of them are dyslexic. It [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Dec 6th, 2006 6 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Janus School
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The Janus School is located in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. This is a school for students with learning disabilities in grades K-12, and was incorporated in 1988. Two plus years of planning went into the design of the school and in 1990 Douglas Atkins (now executive director [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Dec 5th, 2006 9 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Lab School
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The Lab School is in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC and was founded in 1961 by Sally Smith, who is also the head of the Master’s Program in Special Education: Learning Disabilities, at American University. It’s a K-12 school for children with learning disabilities and [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Dec 5th, 2006 15 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Delaware Valley Friends School
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During my visit to the Delaware Valley Friends School (in Pennsylvania), the fact that it’s a school for kids with learning differences faded into the background in the best sense. Primarily it seemed to be a supportive encouraging and challenging school for 7th through 12th [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Nov 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Crossroads School
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As I traveled through this historic area of Pennsylvania, I was impressed with the variety of private independent schools that cater to the needs of atypical learners. My hope is that more schools are developed that can be ’special schools’ because they appeal to a rich [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Nov 27th, 2006 10 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Jemicy School
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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I visited the Jemicy School, a day school located in Owings Mills, just outside of Baltimore, Maryland. I had heard of it for years and what I had heard had always been positive. However, based on what I’d heard [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Nov 27th, 2006 11 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Pathway School
© 2006 Sanford Shapiro
The Pathway School is located in Norristown, in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania. In existence since 1961, Pathway is an independent day and residential school for kids with complex learning disabilities. No kid is really simple of course, but in terms of descriptive labels for learning [...]