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Gifted/Talented Program
These programs (LEAP) serve the needs of students identified as Intellectually
Gifted or Artistically Gifted by a qualified examiner. LEAP (Learning
Enrichment and Progress) renders a unique and challenging program for
gifted children in second through sixth grades. Encouraged intellectually,
creatively, and academically, LEAP students manifest positive attitudes
and superior accomplishments. In the
academically gifted classroom, students are provided with inmumerable
situations and scenarios involving problems ranging from those of a local
nature to those with world-wide implications. By actively seeking solutions
to these problems through research and experience, LEAP students are given
ample opportunities to develop leadership and organizational abilities.
Students in the artistically gifted classes attain valuable visual experiences
in studio activities, intellectual study, evaluation, and critique.
Special Education
Grenada School District is currently serving eligible students with disabilities
in the following areas: specific learning disability, developmental disability,
educable mental retardation, trainable mental retardation, severe profound
retardation, emotional disability, visual impairment, hearing impairment,
autism, physical disability, language/speech, and multiple disabilities.
Guidance
Services
The Grenada School District offers a comprehensive counseling program with profesional school counselors located at each school. Counselors are available to assist students, parents, and staff in a variety of ways. Counselors provide services in the areas of academic counseling, interpersonal skills, personal/social concerns, crisis counseling, and serve as consultants with community referral agencies.
Grenada
Education Center
The Center is located at 423 South Line Street and houses the Grenada School District's Adult Basic Education Program and Adult Grenada GED® Testing Center, the Parent Resource
Center, and the Grenada League for Adult Development (GLAD), the volunteer
adult literacy program serving Grenada County since 1986. Adult services available
at this site include adult literacy tutoring, volunteer tutor training, basic
skills classes, GED® preparation, English-as-a-Second-Language
(ESL) classes, and adult GED® testing. Grenada Adult Education Center students should be a least 18 years old and not currently enrolled in K-12 school. All adult classes and free and enroll new students for sessions beginning in August, October, January, March, and May.
The Parent Resource Center serves as a link between the home and the Grenada K-12 schools.
The Parent Resource Center is designed to provide information, materials, and training for
parents, children, and teachers. The goal of the center is to build the parents'
capacity to help their children succeed.
Health Services
School health services provide first aid, health screenings, administer medication,
and offer health and nutrition lectures to classrooms. School health services
are in constant communication with parents and the school staff to accommodate
the needs of our students.
Drug Awareness Program
Procedures are in place to enable young people to resist illegal substances
by making intelligent decisions despite peer pressure.
HOSTS
The HOSTS (Help One Student to Succeed) program
is a Structured Mentoring Program in language arts, math, and Spanish
with the strategies to create a cycle for student success. Students (K-1) who need assistance in reading, writing, and
study skills are paired with a mentor designated to assist
the individual in achieving specific educational goals.The care of these mentors (dedicated teachers and community members) has proven to change lives by reducing academic falue. HOSTS is an
instructional tool designed to adapt to the State's learning
objectives and curriculum frameworks. Grenada
Elementary School has won several HOSTS Mentoring and Intervention Best Practices Awards for being a National Exemplary Learning Center.
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