School-wide, the Lifelong guidelines are modeled, labeled and used as standards for successful interaction. Immediate feedback-Is achieved by structuring the learning environment to provide immediate responses to the learner's performance. Immediate feedback is necessary for mastery of concepts and skills. Mastery-is the goal of learning. This means that the learner understands a skill or concept and can apply it to real life situations.
Mastery builds a positive self-concept.
Our developmentally appropriate educational program is flexible in expectations for timing of children's achievement, rather than expecting all children to progress at a uniform rate. Children progress along the continuum from easier to more difficult material at their own rates. The students attend school approximately nine weeks and are off the following three weeks. Our longest break period, approximately five weeks, occurs during the summer. The first week of each break is used to provide in-depth studies for students to extend studies in language arts and math.