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Special Services Department

0110 – Academic Support Program 9920 – Peer Mentor for Laudare Program
Grade: Placement by Guidance Credit: 0.5 Grade: 10, 11, 12—placement by Special Ser-
Students in need of additional academic support can vices Credit: 0.5
enroll in Academic Support. ASP provides assistance Students interested in working with fellow students
with organization, time management, curriculum in need of academic support might consider serving
support, assignment planning, and test preparation. as a Peer Mentor in the Laudare program. Peer Men-
ASP teachers facilitate communication between tors serve as academic role models, providing tutor-
teachers, students and parents to ensure students ing and other forms of academic support to students
are prepared for their classes with regards to home- enrolled in our rigorous college-prep curriculum.
work, projects, and assessments. This support takes place during the Laudare students
Academic Support block. Students who would like to
serve as Laudare mentors should demonstrate
0100 – Options Program strong academic and organizational skills.
Students enrolled in our Options Program for learn-
ers with mild to moderate Intellectual Disabilities
participate in their core curriculum classes within
their Options Classroom. Content and curriculum is
reflective of student need, as determined by their
ICEP team. Students receiving Options services also
participate in inclusion courses and electives in gen-
eral education. These inclusion courses are deter-
mined by the students interest as well as teacher
and parental input.

0200 – Laudare Program
Grade: Placement by Administration to rising
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9 and 10 grade students Credit: 1.0
Laudare students are learners with a documented
learning disability, who are in need of more intensive
academic support in order to access our challenging
college preparatory curriculum. The Laudare pro-
gram maintains a 5:1 teacher to student ratio, and
meets daily to provide assistance with remediation of
skills, organization of materials, time management,
curriculum support, assignment planning, and test
preparation. Laudare teachers facilitate communica-
tion between teachers, students and parents to en-
sure students are prepared for their classes with re-
gards to homework, projects, and assessments.
Laudare also utilizes successful students to serve as
Peer Mentors and assist with homework completion
and test preparation.

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