Pathways
Students participating in Pathways have complex learning profiles across a variety of domains, including but not limited to moderate language and learning difficulties, social emotional challenges, and communication disorders. In general, students may exhibit any of the following characteristics:
- Challenges with oral and written expression, reading acquisition and/or reading comprehension
- Challenges with math computation and applications
- Challenges with social judgment, social interactions, and nonverbal communication
- Challenges with executive functioning and all aspects of organization and academic production
- Challenges with mild to moderate anxiety and self-regulation (related to learning difficulties), as well as focusing and attentional issues
The standard district curriculum, with selected supplemental and parallel curricula, provide the instructional framework for the Pathways program. Comprehensive academic, behavioral, and clinical services center on helping student develop oral, social, and written language skills to enhance communication and understand academic content. Flexible scheduling allows students to participate fully in age/grade appropriate general education classrooms for all areas other than those which require individualized and small group specially-designed instruction. Highly experienced staff work together to maximize the social, behavioral, and educational functioning of the student to ensure generalization of learned skills.
Specific services may include one or more of the following:
- Consistent and predictable routines and structures.
- Supported participation in general education academic classes with an additional focus on passing periods, lunch breaks, assembly participation, etc.
- Small group academic instruction with remediation of skills as needed
- Executive functioning support to help students develop self-advocacy and organizational skills while completing required classwork.
- Daily modification of assignments and use of consistent accommodations; pre-teaching, re-teaching, and spiral teaching as necessary for success
- Use of research-based reading approaches designed to work with students with decoding challenges
- Speech/language services, occupational therapy, physical therapy and adaptive physical education provided by licensed specialists.
- Embedded social skills instruction and counseling, clinical check-ins, and coping strategy practice.
- Ongoing communication and collaboration with families