Talk:The Spire School

Semi-protected edit request on 16 November 2015
The Spire School

Located in Stamford in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The Spire School is a co-educational, private, college preparatory day-school and part of the Greenwich Education Group, along with The Beacon School (www.Beacon-ct.org) and Pinnacle (www.pinnacle-ct.org).

Spire provides education to students in grades 6-12 who are underachieving academically due to social and emotional challenges, such as low self-confidence, social isolation, or difficulties coping with stress. Spire's educational program is built on an individualized, community-based model that emphasizes wellness of mind and body.

Academics

Spire offers core subjects at every level, including honors and AP (Advanced Placement) level courses. Instruction is offered in several foreign languages, including Latin, Mandarin, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese.

Spire’s individualized model enables core academics to be enriched by a variety of interdisciplinary and elective courses. Such electives have included computer science, environmental studies, economics, philosophy, introduction to neuroscience, abnormal psychology, and music theory.

Our academic program incudes: - Challenging college preparatory high school curriculum - Honors and AP level courses - Wide range of foreign language courses - Diverse independent studies - Individualized electives - Comprehensive SAT/ACT prep - Advanced art and music instruction

Wellness Programs

- Educational Therapy We subscribe to an Educational Therapy approach that strives to work with students holistically. Adolescents are impacted by a variety of internal and external influences that shape their attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and feelings. As such, Educational Therapy is a practice that serves to demystify cognitive and emotional issues. It enhances students’ awareness of their strengths, while helping them understand how to use these strengths to help overcome or compensate for areas of weakness.

- Metacognitive Instruction Metacognition, or “thinking about one’s thinking,” is the ability to exert control over cognitive processes through self-reflection and self-correction. It is a higher-order executive function that involves filtering, monitoring, analyzing, planning, problem solving, and decision-making, and enables active control over the cognitive processes engaged in attention, adaptation, learning and memory. Activities such as planning how to approach a task, monitoring comprehension, and evaluating progress toward the completion of a task are examples of metacognition in action.

- Positive Psychology Positive Psychology is a scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to survive and thrive. Contrary to the problem-focused models of traditional psychology, Positive Psychology asserts that an enriched, productive and fulfilling life involves far more than just the resolution of problems.

- Strengths Based Instruction Strengths-Based Instruction is a teaching philosophy that utilizes the strengths and talents of each student to enhance their sense of empowerment and increase confidence in the classroom and beyond. This practice encourages students to admit lack of knowledge as a means to move beyond feelings of inadequacy. In its place, we foster a proactive approach to learning.

- Self-Efficacy Self-efficacy, an important theory highly congruent with the principles of Positive Psychology, involves students’ beliefs about their performance capabilities and their perceived abilities to influence circumstances that affect their lives. Self-efficacy beliefs determine how students feel, think, motivate, and react. A strong sense of efficacy, or confidence, can have a significant effect on life choices, level of motivation, quality of functioning, and overall well-being. Students with high confidence in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered and as opportunities for personal growth, rather than as threats to be avoided. This constructive outlook promotes intrinsic motivation and active engagement in activities.

- Our Mission To empower students to achieve their academic potential while supporting their growth into confident and constructive members of their communities who embrace life as a series of exciting challenges and possibilities.

- Individualized Education Programs Students play an active role in developing their customized curriculum and wellness plan to maximize intellectual engagement and motivation. Teachers, trainers, nutritionists, and life coaches work collectively as a community of allies to help Spire students develop the strategies and resilience needed to meet the demands of everyday life.

- Staff Spire teachers are subject area specialists, several of whom are trained in special education and have knowledge and experience working with students with mild-to-moderate learning differences.

- Supplemental Services Spire’s close connection with Greenwich Education Group enables us to provide many supplemental services to our students. These services include a variety of options that many Spire students and families have found helpful including after-school services, college counseling and educational consulting.

- Extra-curricular Activities We provide a variety of extra-curricular activities. Students may be engaged in activities such as poetry, gardening, cooking, free art, and impromptu musical “jam” sessions. Mindfulness is paramount to the Spire experience, and students are given opportunities to do journaling, express gratitude, offer daily intentions, and learn the art of savoring (appreciating the positive aspects of life).

Promoting Both Academics and Wellness: Academics: - College preparatory high school curriculum - Basic, Standard, Honors and AP level courses - Wide range of foreign language courses - Diverse independent studies - Individualized electives - Comprehensive SAT/ACT prep - Advanced art and music instruction

Pmeadct (talk) 18:56, 16 November 2015 (UTC)


 * ❌ - and won't be done - this is the same, totally unsourced, PR (Promotional Rubbish) e.g. "Mindfulness is paramount to the Spire experience" that led to the page being protected at 18.17 today - Arjayay (talk) 19:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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