Private School

It’s no secret that low teacher-student ratios spell success for the student. Our teachers are passionate and experienced educators who hold sacred the intellectual bond they create with each child.

With a Batt school education, you can expect the best in academics and enrichment. By placing our students at the center of our education model, they are sure to find the areas they are passionate about. We pride ourselves on preparing our students to become international leaders and compassionate global citizens. Our students go on to a range of highly rated colleges and universities, including Yale, etc.

Our primary focus during these early years of your child’s development is to honor his/her blossoming brain by providing opportunities to teach your child the fundamentals of phonetics, grouping, and sorting while encouraging their independence, self-determination, and confidence within a learning environment. We know, above else, that play is the best way for your child to achieve these goals and we are committed to provided a safe and nurturing environment for them during this time of great brain expansion.

The School

We provide a clean and well-organized environment, where students can become comfortable in the highly ritualized day in order to feel confident experimenting with new concepts.

Our program emphasizes developing the intrinsic motivation of our youngest students to build inquisitive and highly engaged learners. Our highly curated play centers are filled with stimulating activities that are integrated with our curriculum units. These activities are rotated as our curriculum changes.

We focus on the following themes over the course of their preschool years:

Practical: Our goal is to teach your child about themselves by developing awareness for their self care as well as for their environment.The children help clean and organize the classroom, learn about early nutrition, and are responsible for returning their chosen play activities to their proper location. We also provide ample opportunities for physical movement to develop coordination and gross motor development. By implementing a standard of personal responsibility, we are setting our children up for independence, discipline, and success later in our school’s program.

Social: As our youngest students are just learning the social and behavioral expectations we will uphold, it is imperative that they feel secure in themselves in their abilities because this personal agency will translate well into increased social cooperation. Our mission at the Batt School is to create a loving and nurturing environment where each child feels accepted and supported, so that our students will extend the same warm and compassionate interactions to others. This builds the bedrock of creating inspiring and effective leaders later in life, because to lead is to relate, and then to inspire.

Emotional: At the Batt School, we focus on the comprehensive development of the whole student. Learning to express emotions, develop empathy, and show compassion for ourselves and others are the main tenants of the emotional foundation of each child. Our teachers are highly trained in differential attention techniques, and your child’s emotional wellness is paramount to our teaching philosophy.

Language: This is a time of incredible communication development. Through a number of multi-sensory activities, we immerse your child in an environment that encourages early literacy development. The students will be introduced to letters and phonemes in playful, interactive lessons. In a loving and nurturing environment students develop into emergent readers by becoming comfortable with the mechanics of the English language through rhyming, story telling and songs.

Mathematical Concepts: sorting, organizing, numbers 1-10. As we prepare your students to be lifelong academic thinkers and learners, we introduce the foundations to mathematical concepts they will use for the rest of their schooling. This is done in a fun and interactive way, we focus less on rote memorization and more on kinetic forms of synthesizing the material.

Global Focus: We introduce local themes of ecology, geology, and people’s history. The children will be given activities that inspire them to think about the environment and world around them. We will also profile and celebrate the lives of important thinkers and doers in our society including: Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, etc.

Early Second Language Development: At the Batt School, we incorporate the most innovative and high-quality research on education. That is why we know the importance of introducing second languages early. The effects of bilingualism on the elasticity of the brain and high academic potential are well-proven, and having the ability to communicate in a second language is paramount in our society and part of our mission to develop globally-minded citizens.

The Arts: As our core mission is to develop independent and curious lifelong learners who are kind and globally-minded leaders, we believe an education steeped in the arts best supports this goal. We encourage all of our students to develop the focus and reflection developed within artistic enrichment. For the youngest of our school, we focus on sensorial exercises that will integrate the concepts of wording, classifying describing, as well as determining length, width, temperature, color, pitch, and smell.

Language Arts

Our language arts core curriculum focuses on building our student’s confidence and skills in the multifaceted realm of communication.  As great communication is key to any successful business or academic endeavor, we engage our students in a variety of writing experiences that demonstrate creativity, lucidity, and persuasiveness. Our goal is to inform our students with a wide variety of primary texts, to help them understand the historical context of a piece of writing, and most importantly, to develop a lifelong love of reading and appreciate it as an expression of the diversity of human experience, culture and values.

Mathematics

We find that it is essential for our students to highly value mathematics and its use in related disciplines. We strive to help them build confidence in their abilities to approach mathematical situations; and to think, reason, and communicate mathematical ideas orally and in writing.

We assess our students in the acquisition of these abilities by giving them a number of opportunities to demonstrate their computational proficiencies as well as effectively use their mathematical reasoning skills in a cooperative setting.  We also teach our students the history of the development of mathematics as a field of study and the profound role it has played in society over time.

Science

At the core of a exceptional science education is the motivation and passion to pursue one’s scientific curiosity. We expose our students to the basic concepts and principles of the laws of the universe, scientific methods, and we study the roles played by diverse investigators and theorists overtime. After attaining this fundamental knowledge, we encourage our students to experiment and to understand the growth of scientific ideas and inventions, how the interplay between evidence and theory has evolved over time.

Social Studies/History

By imparting the history of people around the world to our students, our primary goal is to help develop a perspective of the world that is founding in a deep respect for the rights and dignity of all peoples. We believe that an education founded in the understanding of one’s identity and role in a democratic society within our global community is necessary to do this. We cover the core practicum of social sciences including geography, history, government and economics. We take special care to provide opportunities for inquiry-based learning, so that our students learn how to research, analyze, synthesize and present information that is imperative to stay current in today’s world.  An outline of important examples of group decision-making, conflict resolution, and cooperative efforts to promote the common good is at the heart of our social studies curriculum.

Second Language/Spanish

At the Batt School, we feel that bilingualism is an important and enriching skill to possess. In our increasing globalized world, being able to communicate in multiple languages open doors and increases the brain’s elasticity. We offer language instruction that covers the foundation of grammatical structures, basic speech, and early literature of Spanish, as well as the importance and legacy of Spanish/Latino culture and language on the United States.

Computer Technology

Vision

As a result of a Batt education, the student in computer/technology will:

• Understand the role and impact of computers upon our global society

• Accept the responsibility that living in the technologically oriented Information Age demands life-long learning

Benchmarks

• At the completion of Grade 8, a Batt student will understand that each individual is a knowledge producer as well as knowledge consumer, and as such will actively participate in learning facilitated by the use of technology. Computers lend themselves to expression of student thoughts and ideas through:

• Telecommunication and exploration of interactive learning through a variety of learning networks such as the Internet; the student will have been exposed to such networks and will have a basic familiarity with them

• Student authoring (fiction, non-fiction, and original research). The student will be familiar with basic word processing programs and will be able to write and obtain a hard copy of the work with minimal assistance, to search networks (such as the Internet, Compuserve, etc.), CD Roms, and other outside systems for data and information

• Technological support tools. The student will be able, with assistance, to manipulate problem/project oriented data through a variety of programs and tools, such as word processing, spreadsheet and database software.

Art

Vision

As a result of a Batt education, the student in art will:

• Primarily produce art through skilled creative process

• Have an awareness of, and appreciation for, aesthetics

• Understand the value of artistic expression

Benchmarks

At the completion of Grade 8, a student will:

• Have had multiple experiences in thinking creatively and in creating art through drawing and painting

• Have engaged in oral and written critiques concerning his or her own work, and the work of others, which will reflect flexibility of thought, fluence of ideas, and understanding of an assessment format

• Have engaged in individual and group experiences which stress an appreciation for the intrinsic work of artistic expression

Library

Vision 

As a result of the Batt education, the student in library skills and research will:

• Begin to develop the lifelong learning skills necessary to be a skilled seeker and user of information in many media, including print, audio-visual, and computerized technology

• Begin to gain an appreciation and love of good literature

Benchmarks

At the completion of Grade 8, a Batt student will:

• Be able to understand the established procedure for use of the school library

• Be able to access the buman, print, and electronic resources of the library

• Be able to operate with assistance and identify appropriate technologies for information retrieval

• Be able to recognize outstanding authors, illustrators, and titles appropriate to the individual ability level

• Be able to appreciate a variety of literary media for personal pleasure and curricular assignments

Physical Education

Vision

As a result of a Batt education, the student in physical education will:

• Participate regularly in physical activity

• Value the role of physical activity in the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle

• Value confidence, good sportsmanship, and respect for others

• Progress in sequential skill development in individual and group activities

Benchmarks

At the completion of Grade 8, a Batt student will:

• Have learned the skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activities

• Participate regularly in physical activity

• Value physical activity and its contributions to a healthy lifestyle

• Know the implications of and the benefits from involvement in physical activities

Batt Educational Services offers a variety of special education services.

Members of our faculty are certified ESE Teachers. They provide instruction for SLD and other special-needs students in both remedial and enrichment areas. Tutoring is also available for students who require homebound instruction or who are homeschooled.

Batt Schools acknowledges that students experience extreme variability in their development. Our educational planning and expectations reflect an in-depth understanding of asynchronous development. Techniques we use:

– Intellectual challenge commensurate with students instructional level

– Reduced emphasis on written production until developmentally ready

– Extensive use of technology to compensate for motor delays

– Social skills focus in classrooms and advising

– Scaffolding used to start where students are and bridge to the next levels

Speech & Language Therapy:

We offer a complete array of speech, language, and communication services for children, adolescents, and adults. Private therapy is administered by licensed speech and language pathologists:

– Language: aphasia, auditory processing, childhood language disorders

– Speech: articulation,stuttering, dysarthria, accent/dialect reduction

– Cognitive Therapy

– Communication Skills

– Voice: voice quality, laryngectomy

 

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Prescriptive Programs

Wilson language (dyslexia)

The best way to achieve literacy success is to identify the individual student’s needs and then implement the correct teaching strategy. We offer several literacy instructional models to meet the needs of distinct student populations: prevention and early intervention for K-3 students, intervention for older students, and intensive intervention. Each model differs in practice, intensity, and duration, but all have been designed to help students master the appropriate level of literacy.

Lindamood-Bell: Learning Processes

The Lindamood-Bell programs help students improve language processing – the foundation of all communication and learning. The intensive, process-based instruction strengthens the sensory-cognitive functions needed for reading and comprehension, and has proven successful with individuals with learning challenges, including dyslexia, ADHD, CAPD, and ASD.

Cogmed

Cogmed Working Memory Training is a computer-based solution for attention problems caused by poor working memory. The program combines neuroscience with innovative computer game design and close professional support. It challenges working memory capacity using exercises to target the areas associated with executive function and attention. The difficulty level is adjusted in real time based on user performance to ensure the user is working at the height of their ability. The improvement in working memory capacity generalizes to overall behavior, resulting in enhanced attentiveness, resistance to distraction, self-management, and learning.

http://www.cogmed.com/how-it-works

Fast ForWord®

The Fast ForWord program is an online reading program designed for K-12 students struggling with reading and auditory processing difficulties. The program develops and strengthens memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing – the skills essential for reading intervention program success. The strengthening of these skills results in a wide range of improved critical language and reading skills such as phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, decoding, working memory, syntax, grammar, and other skills necessary to learn how to become a better reader.

http://www.scilearn.com/products/

Programs include:

• Seeing Stars®: Symbol Imagery for Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words, and Spelling (SI™)
• Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking® (V/V®)
• Talikes®: Visualizing and Verbalizing for Oral Language Comprehension and Expression (Talkies®)
• Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech (LiPS®)
• On Cloud Nine® Math (OCN™)

http://www.lindamoodbell.com/programs/