A Workshop Sponsored by the Outreach Department Earn free CEUs and register at no charge! DATE: Friday, May 11, 2012 SCHEDULE: 8:30 am – 9:00 am Registration 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Presentation 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Lunch LOCATION: Westbridge Academy Auditorium 60 West Street, Bloomfield, NJ (Parking available on-site) About The workshop/planning …
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On October 7, 2012 our Career and Life Skills classes welcomed a representative from New Jersey Transit to introduce students to the New Jersey Light Rail in a two part series. First, students were shown a video and participated in an open forum discussion on how to safely use the light rail. Then on October 14, 2012 …
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NEW STUDY JUST PUBLISHED A research report published in the journal Child Development, found that students who participated in programs that taught social, emotional, and behavioral skills, improved in their grades and standardized-test scores by 11 percentile points when compared with nonparticipating students. The report analyzed 213 studies involving over 270,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12. …
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Project Achieve While staying true to its purpose and mission as it has for the past four decades, Westbridge Academy continues to provide a therapeutic learning environment for students in grades K-12. Only now the dining options have become a little tastier. Instructors from several academic areas, such as Community Based Instruction (CBI), World Cultures, …
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Given Westbridge Academy’s expertise in addressing a range of mental disabilities, the school was awarded a prestigious Horizon grant to improve awareness and assessment of depression. The grants give Westbridge the resources to acquire a series of videos, reading materials and testing tools, which are designed to raise awareness about the signs of depression. They …
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