![](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/a4y9-nyKoSY/default.jpg "Highlights from our recent iPad Workshop: Apps for Special Needs Students by Vicki Windman. About Rebecca School: Rebecca School is a therapeutic day school for children ages 4 to 21 in New York City, promoting the education and development of children with neurodevelopmental disorders of relating and communicating, including PDD and autism. Mission: Every student with neurodevelopmental delays in relating and communicating deserves the opportunity for an educational program that recognizes their individual potential. Using a developmental and interdisciplinary approach, Rebecca School creates a program that meets students' unique needs, celebrates their strengths and embraces their passions. At Rebecca School, building meaningful, respectful relationships is the foundation for learning. With collaboration between school, home and the community, the learning goes beyond the classroom. Our goal is to move a student up the developmental ladder to become thinking, relating communicating members of his/her community. We utilize the Developmental Individual Differences Relationship-based (DIR®) model. The DIR® Methodology developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan proceeds from the core belief that relationships are the foundation of learning. At Rebecca School, we consider the variations in individual motor and sensory processing systems and tailor each child's program to his or her specific needs. There is no "one-size-fits-all" for children with neurodevelopmental delays in ...")
Published
April 15, 2013
Here are a dozen or so girls' schools' public thoughts about themselves and their missions.
Make Summer a Special Time!
If you have children in private school, then you are most likely looking at three months, perhaps even longer, which you must fill with activities of one kind or another during the long summer break.
Are You Liable?
Is your DEL key about to get gaveled? It doesn't matter whether you teach in a public or private school setting. You expose yourself to legal risks every single day on the job.
