Schools for Children, Inc.

Setting Graduating Students on a Path to Success - https://mailchi.mp/schoolsforchildreninc.org/sfc-transition-services

Position: Immediate Opening

Winn Brook Extended Learning Program Director

Schools for Children is seeking a Program Director for the Winn Brook Extended Learning (WBExL) Program, a before and after school program serving families of students attending the Winn Brook Elementary School in Belmont, Mass. The Program Director is responsible for overseeing all daily operations, budget, staffing, curriculum, ordering of supplies, maintenance of facilities, licensure regulations and parent communications for WBExL.The 12-month position is full time and reports to the Executive Director of Schools for Children.

Learn more:
https://schoolsforchildreninc.org/careers/

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Thank you so much for your support over this Holiday Season and throughout the entire year.

We wish all of you and your families the very best in the coming year.

HAPPY 2024!

OUR CORE VALUES

Schools for Children collectively and within each of its programs and schools adheres to the following shared values:

Achievement: The expectation that students achieve academic success, expand intellectual curiosity, realize social and emotional gains, and increase self-confidence.

Collaboration: The belief that collaboration, which includes and values the perspective of all, creates the highest quality educational opportunity for each student.

Creativity: The commitment to incorporate innovative and effective approaches into its work while creating a sense of joy and discovery to ensure individual student achievement and engagement to realize personal potential.

Respect: The promise to educate students in schools and programs where the differences, points of view, and contributions of all are valued, encouraged and nurtured.

Tenacity: The pledge to sustain a community with the expertise, passion, integrity, and drive to ensure each student’s personal success.

For more information please visit our website at schoolsforchildreninc.org

Happiest of Holidays and much gratitude to our students, staff, community, and supporters.

Your dedication to the mission of Schools for Children is inspiring.

Our campaign may have ended, but the impact is everlasting. Thank you for being a part of something bigger. Stay connected for more updates and opportunities to make a difference!

https://dearbornacademy.org/giving-tuesday-2023/

Schools for Children prides itself in creating school communities that are responsive to the individual needs of its students. Since no one model best matches the needs of all students, we have strived to create distinctive schools characterized by varied learning methodologies targeted to specific student populations.

Each of the five schools currently under our umbrella represents an effort to transform learning by offering programs that constitute the right fit for its unique set of students.

Groundbreaking - https://mailchi.mp/schoolsforchildreninc.org/lets-celebrate-our-connections-to-each-other-10678693

Another service offered by Schools for Children is Transition Support for our HS students as they go off to college, careers, and beyond.

For this we established The Everest Program at Dearborn Academy and the Different Choices Fair, a virtual fair that focuses on meeting the needs of students with IEPs, 504s, learning disabilities, and mental health conditions.

Different Choices Fairs have collected a variety of webinars and interviews that help students and families explore options from colleges to alternative learning programs, to gap years, apprenticeships and services.

You can still access theseonline, at our Different Choices YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/

Join us at Schools for Children as we work to ensure that every Massachusetts child has the opportunity for quality, transformational education. Your support also helps us develop new and much-needed programs.

Thank you!

You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving-tuesday-202

We hope you will support Dearborn Academy, a Schools for
Children school.

We create distinctive schools characterized by varied learning methodologies targeted to specific student populations, because we know that no one model best matches the needs of all students.

Dearborn Academy focuses on a population of students with behaviors that are not disruptive to the learning environment, and who have painful struggles with mental illness that result in avoidance of school and related activities. Our calm milieu and expert staff help students practice strategies to more fully access their education.

Our donors support this work through enrichment
initiatives and activities such as athletic teams, technology, special workshops, field trips and more.

DONATE
This , you have the ability to make a difference with a donation in any amount. You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving-tuesday-2023/

Thank you!

Schools for Children operates three thriving schools, three before and after school programs – each affiliated with a public school system, and a specialized educational support program

Our schools and programs include:
Dearborn Academy
Lesley Ellis School
Seaport Academy
Dearborn STEP Program
Extended Learning Programs (ExL)

Donate
Join us at Schools for Children as we work to ensure that every Massachusetts child has the opportunity for quality, transformational education. You have the ability to make a difference with a donation in any amount. Your gift enhances the education we provide as we build on current services that combine rigorous academic achievement with social-emotional growth. Your support also helps us develop new and much-needed programs. Thank you!

You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving-tuesday-2023/

Dearborn STEP Program

Dearborn STEP (Short Term Educational Placement) provides an intensive clinical, therapeutic assessment to students in Grades 5-12 for up to 45 school days. These students may have struggled to be successful due to social-emotional challenges, learning challenges, attendance challenges, and suspensions. Additionally, some students are referred to Dearborn STEP because they are in need of a hospital step-down to help them become re-acclimated to a school environment.

Join us at Schools for Children as we work to ensure that every Massachusetts child has the opportunity for quality, transformational education. You have the ability to make a difference with a donation in any amount. Your gift enhances the education we provide as we build on current services that combine rigorous academic achievement with social-emotional growth. Your support also helps us develop new and much-needed programs. Thank you!

You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving-tuesday-2023/

Schools for Children prides itself on creating school communities that are responsive to the individual needs of our students.

Our Dearborn Academy focuses on a population of students who have struggles with mental illness that result in avoidance of school and related activities. Our calm milieu helps students practice strategies to more fully access their education.

We are proud of our expert clinicians, special educators, speech pathologists and occupational therapists who help students re-engage in their education. And we are THANKFUL TO OUR DONORS who help us provide enrichment often missing in special education -- athletic teams, technology, special workshops, field trips and more.

PLEASE DONATE
You have the ability to make a difference with a donation in any amount. Your gift
enhances the education we provide as we combine rigorous academic achievement with social-emotional growth.

Thank you!

You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving

We hope you will support Dearborn Academy, a Schools for
Children school.

We create distinctive schools characterized by varied learning methodologies targeted to specific student populations, because we know that no one model best matches the needs of all students.

Dearborn Academy focuses on a population of students with behaviors that are not disruptive to the learning environment, and who have painful struggles with mental illness that result in avoidance of school and related activities. Our calm milieu and expert staff help students practice strategies to more fully access their education.

Our donors support this work through enrichment
initiatives and activities such as athletic teams, technology, special workshops, field trips and more.

For example, $250 will purchase supplies for chemistry experiments. $25 will purchase a puzzle, book or other mindful activity to calm anxiety.

DONATE
This , you have the ability to make a difference with a donation in any amount.

Thank you!

You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving-tuesday-2023/

2023 at Dearborn Academy, a program of Schools for Children

Schools for Children prides itself on creating school communities that are responsive to the individual needs of our students. Our Dearborn Academy focuses on a population of students who have struggles with mental illness that result in avoidance of school and related activities. Our calm milieu helps students practice strategies to more fully access their education.

We are proud of our expert clinicians, special educators, speech pathologists and occupational therapists who help students re-engage in their education. And we are THANKFUL TO OUR DONORS who help us provide enrichment often missing in special education -- athletic teams, technology, special
workshops, field trips and more.

PLEASE DONATE
This , you have the ability to make a difference with a donation in any amount. Your gift
enhances the education we provide as we combine rigorous academic achievement with social-
emotional growth. Thank you!
You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving

Here are just a few ways your gifts have helped the Dearborn community thrive so far this year:

● Joining in the nationwide craze, Dearborn students of all grade levels have found joy in playing pickleball with our brand new equipment.
● If you walked in the auditorium on Friday afternoons, you would be greeted with contagious
laughter and joy coming from our new partnership with the theater program Company One.
● The front of our building now has flags and a sign that proudly announces our presence on
Washington Street.
● A 12th grade student has taken the initiative to start a Book Club ⎼ each student in the club can receive a fresh new copy of the books they choose to read!

Thank you for everything you do to support our special community.

Today is , and we hope you will support Dearborn Academy, a Schools for Children school.

We create distinctive schools characterized by varied learning methodologies targeted to specific student populations, because we know that no one model best matches the needs of all students.

Dearborn Academy focuses on a population of students with behaviors that are not disruptive to the learning environment, and who have painful struggles with mental illness that result in avoidance of school and related activities. Our calm milieu and expert staff help students practice strategies to more fully access their education.

Our donors support this work through enrichment initiatives and activities such as athletic teams, technology, special workshops, field trips and more. For example, $250 will purchase supplies for chemistry experiments. $25 will purchase a puzzle, book or other mindful activity to calm anxiety.

DONATE
This , you have the ability to make a difference with a donation in any amount. Thank you!

You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving-tuesday-2023/

2023 at Dearborn Academy, a program of Schools for Children

Schools for Children prides itself on creating school communities that are responsive to the individual needs of our students. Our Dearborn Academy focuses on a population of students who have painful struggles with mental illness that result in avoidance of school and related activities. Our calm milieu helps students practice strategies to more fully access their education.

We are proud of our expert clinicians, special educators, speech pathologists and occupational therapists who help students re-engage in their education. And we are THANKFUL TO OUR DONORS who help us provide enrichment often missing in special education -- athletic teams, technology, special workshops, field trips and more.

PLEASE DONATE
This , you have the ability to make a difference with a donation in any amount. Your gift enhances the education we provide as we combine rigorous academic achievement with social-emotional growth. Thank you!
You can make your gift securely online at https://dearbornacademy.org/giving

What are you thankful for this year?

(Below: Our Seaport young men at a pie-eating contest. Make sure you enjoy some at this year's holiday celebrations!)

11 Traits of Powerful Mentors:

Check out the latest SFC eNews to learn what it takes to be a powerful mentor AND how to get the most from a mentoring opportunity:

11 Traits of Powerful Mentors In our ongoing effort to become better at what we do, the members of the Schools for Children administrative team took time to reflect on the mentors who had had the greatest impact on our professional lives. Each of us described a mentor, usually a supervisor, who made a lasting impression.   Comp...

While legislators and parents around the U.S. organize book bans and challenge curricula that mention race and lgbtq+ issues, John Charow is ensuring that Seaport Academy students study the good, bad and ugly parts of American history.

He believes learning history, including conflicts among people, countries and regions, helps students realize that keeping the lines of communication open strengthens relationships that, in turn, lessen conflict.

Read https://seaportacademy.org/rooted-in-history/

Today, national debates rage about what students can be taught within the study of history, particularly as it relates to disenfranchised populations. At Schools for Children, we speak of the importance of inclusivity throughout our schools. That’s not just about who walks our hallways. It’s about whose story gets told.

Who Decides What History Is Told? | Schools for Children While debates rage about what students can be taught within the study of history, Schools for Children celebrates inclusive history.

Know Your Place ... in History - https://mailchi.mp/schoolsforchildreninc.org/teaching-history-honestly provides insights and actionable ideas for teaching civics and history in ways that defy critics and help all children learn the parts of history that are too often omitted from most standard teaching materials.

Happy Juneteenth from Schools for Children and our schools and programs. It's been 158 years, and we still have so far to go. Let's make sure our children know the true history of our country so we can fulfill its promise for everyone.

Your thoughts, suggestions?

Report Highlights Unequal Access to Special Education Services Recently, the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) released “State of Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education: Looking

It's Pride Month, an opportunity to further amplify the voices, raise the visibility and educate our students about LGBTQIA+ issues, the community and history. Here are just a few of the many resources (offering even more resources) shared by Hannah Sycks, a high school teacher at Dearborn Academy. Thank you, Hannah. Read Hannah's post from 2020: Pride Month, Pride Year: Teaching and Learning: https://dearbornacademy.org/pride-month-2020/

The CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/youth-resources.htm

Each Mind Matters' Be True and Be You:https://emmresourcecenter.org/system/files/2017-07/Be%20True%20Be%20You%20LGBTQ%20Booklet-DIGITAL.pdf

The Trevor Project:
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Pride Month, Pride Year: Teaching and Learning – Dearborn Academy June is Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ community! In past years, I have met with LGBTQ+ students and allies at Dearborn and discussed how we are celebrating both personally and as a school.

On this, the third anniversary of George Floyd's murder, we call on educators to strengthen their focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. Let's move beyond tolerance to transformation in our teaching and learning.

Transformational Teaching-Learning Starts with DEI Schools for Children has a long-standing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s at the core of all of our work.