Why We're Unique
"It's a short term investment with a long-term return."
Rowan Glidden, former parent
Teaching students the skills and strategies needed to become successful, independent learners who are well-equipped to return to a traditional school setting – usually within two to three years – is, and has been, The Highlands School’s mission since first opening its doors in 1996. We teach the whole child in an effort to foster optimum social and academic growth and increase educational competence and personal confidence. We respect each individual’s learning style, help each child recognize personal strengths and teach each child strategies to compensate for specific weaknesses. Everyone works together to prepare the students to self-advocate, helping them change how they perceive their own ability to control situations they encounter.
At our school, you will find:
- Individualized, sequential, multi-sensory and research-based instruction
- Small classes
- Low student:teacher ratio
- 22 breakout rooms for small group (two to four students or less) instruction
- Sound limiting classrooms
- Smartboards in every classroom
- Speech/Language and Occupational Therapy services as needed
- Organization, planning and routines reinforced in every class
- Social skill training
- FM sound field enhancement system in every classroom
Every teacher and instructor is trained in the unique Highlands educational approach, which includes aspects of Orton-Gillingham and Lindamood-Bell methodology and employs multisensory techniques for teaching reading and spelling. Our multisensory approach helps all students acquire and remember information where other traditional methods may have failed.