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The
Learning Resources Department provides a wide range of services to
support student learning, academic growth, and success. This
department operates the Brain & Learning Lab, located in Room
200. Brain & Learning Lab faculty work with individual students
and small groups to provide assistance in acquiring efficient and
effective learning strategies. Brain & Learning Lab faculty
also work with students to enhance metacognition, emphasizing how
learning can be maximized through an understanding of one’s
individual learning profile.
Content support, particularly in math, is also
available on a limited basis. For longer-term content support,
referrals are made to professional tutors who are available on a
fee basis to work individually with students for ongoing support
and instruction. Space is available in the Brain & Learning Lab
for outside tutors to meet on campus to tutor
students.
Additional services provided by the department
include initial screenings for learning difficulties or
disabilities and referrals for educational and other professional
assessments. When recommendations for assessments by outside
professionals are made, and/or when there are disability issues,
Brain & Learning Lab faculty act as liaisons between outside
professionals and the school, and between families and teachers.
They also coordinate reasonable accommodations in classes and
ongoing case management and documentation.
In
addition to academic and learning support, Brain & Learning Lab
faculty also provide classroom instruction in learning,
metacognition and the brain to 5th graders.
Additionally, this department is responsible for the coordination
and administration of the Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP-IV)
standardized testing completed by 6th and 8th
graders each year as well as the presentation of seminars and
interactive workshops related to teaching and learning for faculty
from time to time.
Learning Resources Coordinator
Camilla Calkins (aka Dr. C) and learning specialist Amy Raden are
available to consult with parents,
teachers and students regarding strategies for meeting the academic
expectations of a particular class and of the school as a whole.
Students may access support by dropping in during the day during
lunches or free periods or by scheduling an appointment. Drop-in
support is also available some afternoons during after school study
hall. Parents may access department services by dropping by, or via
phone call or email.
Camilla Calkins (206)440-2782 camilla.calkins@lakesideschool.org Amy Raden (206) 440-2883 amy.raden@lakesideschool.org |