A Year of Growth & Discovery
College, Careers & the Confidence to Plan What’s Next REACH is the part of Westbridge that pushes students out into the real world: career [...]
Student Spotlight: Celebrating Keyon M.
Student Spotlight: Celebrating Keyon M. - Keyon walked through our doors for the first time in 2017. He was seven. He’s in eleventh grade now, and Westbridge looks different for him having been part of it.
Letter from the Executive Director
Letter from the Executive Director - Dear Westbridge Families,As we close another school year at Westbridge, I want to share what defines this place. It isn’t the building or the brochure. It’s what happens at 8:39 AM when a student walks through the door, carrying whatever they are carrying, and what we do once they arrive. That is the heart of Westbridge.
Social and Emotional Learning in the Pandemic
There have been so many losses during the pandemic. The pandemic stole routine, structure, relationships, connections, and face-to-face learning. How can we expect our students to be ready to learn in a crisis if we are not tending to their emotions?
Social Learning through Video Gaming
At Westbridge Academy, educators leverage students’ love for popular games to help teach patience, empathy, humility, and respect.
Students Getting Stronger with Fitness Friday
Fitness Friday is an innovative new program designed to engage students in building strength, both inside and out. Offered to middle and high school students as part of the physical education curriculum, the program allows teens to plan personal fitness goals, and use the school’s new fitness room to achieve them.
Workshop: Social and Emotional Learning for Students with Disabilities
Workshop: Social and Emotional Learning for Students with Disabilities, March 16, 2018. Westbridge Academy. Free CEUs for educators. Register now at Eventbrite.
Social and Emotional Problem-Solving
This fall, School Principal, Dr. Anthony Hadzimichalis brought the entire staff together - classroom teachers, clinical staff, aides, specialists and administrators – to review the new competencies, and ensure that measurable social and emotional learning objectives are front and center in the curriculum.