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Spring 2004
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS
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2003-2004 school year has been marked with characteristic industry - a busy agenda,
replete with planned academic and therapeutic events and the inevitable surprises,
challenges, and obstacles that typify the not-at-all ordinary Leary School year.
 At
Leary School, Prince George's County, a comprehensive restructuring of our academic
delivery, from a self-contained model to a departmental model was launched. Staff
and students dedicated themselves to personal growth. Staff and students grew together,
celebrated together and grieved together and together prepared to launch our prospective
graduates into the next tasks toward responsible adulthood.
Similarly, in Virginia, the JobSite program will shortly bring to a close yet another
successful house project with customary fervor; the main campus will also look back
on a year of growth, challenges and accomplishments.
For all of the programs, however, this school year has also been distinctively marked
by initiatives to bring the academic programs in line with the challenges and requirements
of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.
 Nationwide,
schools are preparing students for increasingly rigorous criterion-referenced testing
and are putting in place mechanisms to more accurately gauge overall, yearly academic
progress. Relatedly, the programs are preparing to bring the teaching teams into
the "highly qualified" range to meet NCLB standards.
While many of us in special education remain concerned with assessment methods struggling
students will encounter, there is also much agreement. We all want what we have always
wanted - the students to be prepared to be productive, contented, and accomplished
adults.
Friends
of Lincolnia Educational Foundation, Inc.
Join us in planning a celebration in September to commemorate:
The 10th anniversary of Lincolnia Educational Foundation, Inc. and The 40th
anniversary of Leary School
Monetary contributions, as well as donations of time and talent gratefully
accepted
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Francesca Creo, M.A.
Director of Programs
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