This year is Westbridge Academy's Golden Anniversary, celebrating 50 years of providing high quality educational and therapeutic services to thousands of students for whom we went the "extra mile." Moments like this give us the opportunity to reflect, and ask, what happens in that extra mile?
Event day photo gallery. WBA's extended school year theme related to the Culinary Arts and culminated in our First WBA Food Truck Race. Staff created cross curricular plans to ensure all content areas were covered. Students attending ESY were surveyed during the school year as to what foods they would like to make for their food truck.
REACH – for Education, Achievement and Career Hopes – is designed for students ages 14 and older. It helps them explore, consider, and prepare for a wide range of post-secondary options, including higher education.
ESY at Westbridge is about more than preventing regression and battling academic learning loss. Students need to maintain critical behavioral, social, and mental health gains as well.
This spring, Westbridge Academy hosted an un-timed, single-elimination chess tournament for students of all skill levels.
At Westbridge Academy's recent Anti-Bullying Assembly, Omegaman and Friends' helped promote positive choices by combining unique feats of strength with a powerful message that inspired our students to make the right choices when it came to bullying, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, and personal achievement.
Westbridge Academy's clinical team is at the center of all of our work. Comprising licensed school social workers, a school psychologist, and the school nurse, the team provides ongoing support services and care to students and their families.
For Cheryl Jones, Speech Language specialist at Westbridge Academy, the best news she can get is that a student no longer needs her help. That news came this spring for her student, Keyon.
Brian Coya is a School Social Worker who joined the staff at Westbridge Academy in 2019. A bilingual professional, Brian likes having the opportunity to make a positive impact on the students.
Mental health issues have taken a seat in the front row of every classroom. Following pandemic-related interruptions, students are experiencing higher rates of depression, anxiety, stress, phobias, and grief.
