Our Student Support team has put together some webinars discussing mental health, transitioning from middle school to high school, and graduation. We hope these webinars will benefit you and your learners!
Mental Health & Well-Being in High School
Middle School to High School Transitions
Distance learning can be a challenge for our learners and families. This webinar provides some helpful tips for learning at home!
Please visit the new counseling page on our Student Support website! The Student Support counseling team meets learners’ needs on a social-emotional level through groups, guidance lessons, Lunch Bunches, resources, and office hours. It is our goal to ensure all learners stay and feel connected during this time when it’s so easy to disconnect. Please review the website to check out the awesome opportunities available to our families.
Click here to visit our website!
iLEAD Schools and Maker Learning Network have put together a website full of resources for you to access for your learners: Homeschooling Answers. On this website, you will find curriculum and activities, Special Education resources, parent tools, and more!
Click here to check it out.
Bookshare is a customizable online library that we have made available for our iLEAD learners. There are thousands of books to choose from and we know your learners will benefit from it!
Learn more in this video.
Our Student Support team will be hosting a webinar this month to go more in-depth about how Bookshare works and how you can access it if you haven’t already! More information to come.
This year has brought on many changes for us, and this can be especially tough for our learners. Here are some tips from Boston Children’s Hospital on how to support your learners this holiday season.
For the full article, click here.
Bookshare Webinar: TBD (will be held in December before our winter break)
Winter Break: December 21 – January 8
No services will be delivered during this time. Enjoy your break!
The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a research-based instructional approach that supports our learners with dyslexia. This direct, multisensory, systematic, diagnostic, and prescriptive method effectively addresses needs in the areas of reading, writing and spelling.
Click here to access webinars and materials to learn about dyslexia, essential elements of a lesson, ways to integrate multisensory methods into your instruction, reading comprehension strategies, specific spelling rules and ways to support sight word recognition and fluency.
The Committee for Children website put together a number of online activities available for children from TK-8th grade. All of these activities help build children’s social-emotional skills during a time when they are unable to naturally do so with their friends and at their schools. Access this helpful page here.
