Our goal is an education that prepares students for
lifelong learning, and actualizes their potential · one that responds to our
nation's deepest needs and aspirations, and reflects the most valued of our
citizens' rights.
· Marsha Gaynor Lewis
All
language and learning skills are taught using a multi-sensory, sequential
approach. During the early morning hours between 8.30 and 10:30, every
student, regardless of age, begins preparing the brain by studying the
mechanics of language, adapted appropriately for the student's age and
current level of ability. This includes reading, writing, spelling,
listening comprehension, auditory sequencing, active working memory,
visual-motor discrimination, and decoding and encoding skills, presented in
sequential sensory specific increments, one step at a time.
These skills carry over into all classes and all subjects
during the rest of the day. They are practiced within course content
and implemented by teachers trained in literature, art, music, history, math,
and science.
Course content is challenging and sophisticated, following in
the least, State Education Curriculum guidelines and, more often than not,
enhancing these minimal requirements. A student's effort as well as his or
her achievement is valued by all teachers. In this way, learning weaknesses
are repaired, and the aptitudes and acumen of our bright children are
developed.
During the summer our students keep learned skills honed and
practiced, maximizing automaticity and internalizing learning while
minimizing forgetting.
Excellent
progress in learning how to learn is not enough alone to develop and sustain
the best in children, unless learning takes place in the other
"language" of behavior, emotion socialization, honesty,
responsibility, problem-solving conflict-resolution inter- and intra-personal
skills and spirituality · these kinds of learning are an essential part of their
daily educational experience. This integration of these many
"languages" learning happens every day at The Lewis School.
The Lewis School has always recognized, valued, and developed
the intelligence and creative strengths of its bright, learning-different
students. Children who fall through the cracks elsewhere have been discovered
at The Lewis Clinic and School to be bright, fully capable persons of
ability, talent, and untapped promise.
The Lewis School provides a unique learning program that is
customized and individualized for students at the following levels:
Preschool, Lower School, Upper School, College Preparatory Program, College
Study, Graduate School Preparatory Study, Adult Learning Program.
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