Learning Support 

Study Skills: A program geared towards helping students gain skills that will help them achieve academic success. Concepts include learning styles, daily preparation for the classroom, note-taking strategies, and test-taking skills.

 

Teacher Extra Help: Hours during the school week in which teachers offer extra academic assistance to students who are having difficulty learning class material. Each teacher offers one or two extra help session each week. Students can often schedule extra help sessions with teachers if they have conflicts with preset extra-help hours.

 

Students with Special Needs: Students with mild learning disabilities, such as dyslexia and ADHD, receive accommodations within their main-streamed classes. Progress is monitored by a school employed Learning Support Specialist.

 

Emotional Support

Consultation Team: A team of educators, including school nurses, learning specialists and counselors which meet weekly to develop strategies to assist students, create teacher-training programs, and ensure student well-being.

 

Counselor: A full time school counselor assists students with daily challenges and life crises. Counseling can help students learn to take responsibility for their behavior and academic performance. Students are encouraged to develop healthy decision-making skills and explore choices in their lives that will help them take an active, positive role in shaping their own futures. Students who require ongoing support are referred by the counselor to other community professionals if additional therapy or assessments are needed.

 

Community Professionals: LAS works closely with professional psychologists and mental health professionals within the community to help students cope with challenging and ongoing emotional issues or make relevant assessments. Students are referred for professional services by the counselor. All services are confidential.

 

Dormitory Mentors: Each student meets with a dorm mentor once every two weeks to follow up on social and emotional needs within the dorms. Dorm mentors guide students on dorm living and help them establish caring peer relationships.

 

Faculty Families: Once a week during the school day, students meet in their faculty families. These families serve as a support structure where students from diverse backgrounds can meet, celebrate birthdays, share stories, and travel on family trips.