Community Overview
We consider our community to be both our Star Academy school community as well as our larger Bay Area community encompassing persons with learning differences and AD/HD, their families and the professionals who support them.
Our Star Academy community is a wonderful close-knit school community comprised of Star Academy students, parents, families, staff, alumni, and friends. It is characterized by a collective sense of purpose and compassion. It exists within a school environment that is "happy," "joyful," "calm," "safe" and" totally supportive" in the words of our parents and students. This vibrant, involved community works together to put on a full calendar of school events and activities each year. Throughout the year, alumni return to participate in our Bay Area special education events and activities.
Our Bay Area learning differences community is a growing and evolving community who are coming together to gain information about learning differences, share resources, and provide moral support for one another. Star Academy works to help foster this community by providing a central meeting place for community education, networking, and cross-school student social activities. We also offer expert resources to support students who attend other schools through our afterschool clinic and enrichment programs, which are now open to the public.
Clinic Services
Beginning in October, 2011 Star Academy will extend many of its specialis services and methodologies to students from other schools.
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After School Enrichment Activities
After school activities are designed to provide arts and cultural enrichment, athletic skill development, homework support, and peer social interaction opportunities. Activities change quarterly.
Some activities are open to the public, others are available to Star Academy students only.
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Weekend Teen Social Activities
Star Academy offers weekend TEEN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES to help foster social interactions and friendships among teens with learning differences across schools. We welcome and encourage students from all schools to join these outings. All are open to the public (ages 12-19). For teens who wish to enlarge their social community and develop new friends, this is an ideal way to meet other students in a comfortable, relaxed, natural setting. Star Academy Staff supervise these off-campus outings and help facilitate teen friendships in subtle, unobtrusive ways.
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Speakers and Workshops
Star Academy offers speakers and workshops throughout the school year on topics related to learning differences, AD/HD and autism spectrum disorders and more. These events are open to the public. View 2011-2012 speakers and workshops>
