Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Nov 15th, 2006 20 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Stanbridge Academy © 2006 Sanford Shapiro Located in San Mateo, California and founded in 1982, Stanbridge Academy is a school for students with learning disabilities in grades K-12. The profile of a Stanbridge student often contains overlapping and/or more complex learning differences than a more singular dyslexia diagnosis for example. Students [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Nov 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Sterne School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Sterne School is located in a typically hilly neighborhood in the middle of San Francisco. Across the street from a beautiful city park, you enter the front door after ringing the doorbell. The school has offices and classes on the three levels in [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 27th, 2006 1 Comment »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Charles Armstrong School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro I first heard about the Charles Armstrong School back in 1983. I had just gotten hired as the first teacher of an about-to-be-opened school for dyslexic learners in Monterey, California. Our founding director was a former faculty member of the Charles Armstrong School. [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Parkmeadow School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Parkmeadow School, an extension of the Brighton School, about which I recently wrote, serves as the junior and senior high schools (grades 7-12). Under the leadership of executive director Gary Kenshen this school, also in Baton Rouge, has the look and feel of [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 20th, 2006 17 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Brighton School, Baton Rouge © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Brighton School, Partridge Campus is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This is a school that works with children in grades Kindergarten through seventh who have language-based learning disabilities. The admissions profile of the student learning differences is pretty standard. It’s similar [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 20th, 2006 15 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Monarch School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Monarch School, a unique K-12 day school, divided into two campuses within a half a mile of each other, and resides in a quieter Houston suburb. I call this a unique school because of the population it serves. In operation as a school [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 13th, 2006 15 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Briarwood School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro After driving through a bizarre Texas ice storm that closed down schools in Austin, I made it to Houston, albeit a bit frazzled by the combination of road construction, and MapQuest inaccuracies. The first school I visited here was the Briarwood School, which now [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Dallas Academy © 2006 Sanford Shapiro Dallas Academy is a relatively small K-12 school located in a fairly quiet suburban neighborhood of Dallas. In 2005 the Academy joined with the Lattner Lower (Elementary) School. Prior to this merger the Academy had a forty year history of working with students with learning [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Winston School, Dallas © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Winston School is a K-12 school located in Dallas Texas. Founded in 1975 as an elementary school for bright kids with specific learning disabilities, it added 7th though 9th grades in 1978 and expanded through high school in 1983. Originally located on the [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Winston School, San Antonio © 2006 Sanford Shapiro As it turns out there are several schools throughout the country named Winston School and while they are all for students with learning disabilities, they are separate entities. There are even two in Texas, one in Dallas and this one in San Antonio. [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Mar 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Shelton School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The fact that the Shelton School, located in Dallas, Texas, is the nation’s largest school for children with learning disabilities is not really its calling card but perhaps a reflection of its ability to consistently deliver high quality education. Founded in 1976 it serves [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Mar 27th, 2006 9 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Havern School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Havern School is a relatively small school located in a residential neighborhood in Littleton, Colorado, which is about 15 or 20 minutes from downtown Denver. The Sisters of Loreto who had a mission to help children with special needs founded Havern in 1966. [...]