Waypoint Academy

Waypoint Academy provides a Common Core Standards based educational setting for students with learning disabilities, social-emotional related disabilities, including trauma based mental health issues, anxiety, depression, attentional disorders, social deficiencies, and behavior challenges. Clinical supports are provided by a team of Licensed Mental Health Counselors,(LMHCs), Adjustment Counselors, Guidance Counselors and a Milieu Specialist. Instructors are DESE Licensed Moderate Special Education Teachers and Content Area Teachers, (CATS), to insure each student gets the individual clinical and instructional supports necessary for improved school performance and adjustment.

The school has an evidence-based approach to monitor and track student performance and growth, which is shared at student’s TEAM meetings and conferences. The data informed decision-making process has enhanced the capacity for the identification of student strengths and weakness. The approach assists the TEAM in modifying student goals and objectives for targeted areas. Teachers practice the most evidence- based concepts of teaching and learning; C. Danielson’s, Frameworks for Teaching (2013) and her “Ingredients for Critical Thinking” are at the heart of each teacher’s instruction. Students also have the opportunity to participate in our Camp Burgess outdoor applied (Transitional Educational Experience – TEE) learning program.