There are three levels of support, each customized to meet individual needs:
Plan B meets three times a week
Plan A meets twice a week
Plan 1 meets once a week
This three-tiered program allows for reducing the amount of support as the student demonstrates skill acquisition and independency.
Plan B is a comprehensive three-session per week plan that provides frequent, ongoing, intensive assistance to develop multiple skill sets. The best practice approaches employed by the program are integrated with the delivery of the subject curriculum in all areas.
Plan A is a comprehensive two-session per week plan that is focused on accelerating a primary skill needed to maximize success in the Brewster curriculum and beyond. The student has demonstrated some degree of independency and therefore the focus is on achieving consistently high performance.
Plan 1 is a transition plan that prepares the student for being an independent learner.
Students are monitored weekly to ensure the skills and strategies they have learned or are learning are being applied within their curriculum with a high level of consistency. This plan is designed for the student and teacher to meet once a week to review progress and provide the student with feedback that assists in accomplishing the goal of independence from a support plan.
Writing Center
The Writing Center is a one- or two-year full credit course designed to improve a student’s written expression. Students best served by this program have experienced challenges with learning to write through traditional approaches. Utilizing the University of Kansas’ Sentence Writing Strategy, Paragraph Writing Strategy, and Fundamentals in Theme Writing Strategy, students are instructed in the construction of the four basic sentence types, their associated formulas, the development of coherent, cohesive, strong paragraphs, and the development of essays of at least five paragraphs. In addition to the University of Kansas’ program strategies, a variety of writing structures including comma usage, capitalization, punctuation, increased production of written expression, and vocabulary development are also taught as integral components of the Writing Center curriculum. Instruction occurs in small class instructional groups of up to eight students and employs direct teaching, cooperative learning, and mastery-based approaches.