Academics

The Academic Center at SBS supports students in developing the skills and strategies necessary to succeed. Students learn how to advocate for themselves and their unique learning styles, secure in the knowledge that their voice will be heard.

Learning Center Program Overview

Learning Skills classes can run all year or for one or two terms. Enrollment in Learning Skills is initiated at the request of the student, parent, or school administration. In this class, students meet individually with a teacher once, twice, or three times per week as dictated by the needs of individual students. The Learning Skills program also strives to develop student metacognition of learning needs, leading students toward awareness, self-advocacy, and independence. Learning Skills is a fee-based, non-credit bearing class; students do not earn letter grades. In addition, narrative reports are provided at the mid-term mark of each trimester and again at term’s end.

Who Should Apply?
SBS encourages all qualified students to apply,. The application ensures each student will be holistically evaluated on a case-by-case basis in partnership with the Director of the Learning Center.

Additional opportunities for academic support include:
• Evening guided study hall for boarding students supervised by a LCP faculty member
• Supervised study hall, for students needing additional support, by a LCP faculty member
• Extra-help during designated office hours
• Peer-to-peer tutoring
• Math Skills
• Middle School Academic Support Program
• Student Accommodations
• Neuroeducational/Neuropsychological Evaluations, Learning Profiles vs. IEPs and 504s
• Support in English as a Second Language

To learn more, please contact Director of the Academic Center Anne Arent.