Extended Year Program
CHARMS Alt. Ed. extended year program focuses on enhancing academic, service, and transitional skills. This 5 week program provides academic enrichment in English and Math, community service learning, social skills training and transitional skills development, including travel training and college visits.
The goal of our Extended Year Program is to organize events that allow students to apply and enhance academic, executive functioning, social/emotional and transitional skills through educational field trips, cooperative group activities, and community service opportunities, which is a graduation requirement for most districts. CHARMS staff strive to achieve this via activities that are fun and not provided during the regular academic year.
Alt. Ed. tries to spend the majority of the summer engaged in group and community activities as an means of integrating transitional planning, travel training, money management, and experiential and service learning . In Summer 2015, students and staff visited several colleges, field trips/community outings, including the Larz Anderson Museum and Inside Pixar Exhibit at the Museum of Science, completed volunteer work at Canton High, the Audubon Society, and, of course, planned and hosted the annual CHARMS Luncheon! In addition to these learning experiences, Alt. Ed. staff also make efforts to integrate elements of counseling into summer activities as well. From cooperative group work, to engaging in mindfulness and self-reflection while walking the trails at World's End, the Alt. Ed. program makes every attempt to ensure that each experience reinforces academic, transitional, and therapeutic skills, while teaching the importance of civic responsibility.
The goal of our Extended Year Program is to organize events that allow students to apply and enhance academic, executive functioning, social/emotional and transitional skills through educational field trips, cooperative group activities, and community service opportunities, which is a graduation requirement for most districts. CHARMS staff strive to achieve this via activities that are fun and not provided during the regular academic year.
Alt. Ed. tries to spend the majority of the summer engaged in group and community activities as an means of integrating transitional planning, travel training, money management, and experiential and service learning . In Summer 2015, students and staff visited several colleges, field trips/community outings, including the Larz Anderson Museum and Inside Pixar Exhibit at the Museum of Science, completed volunteer work at Canton High, the Audubon Society, and, of course, planned and hosted the annual CHARMS Luncheon! In addition to these learning experiences, Alt. Ed. staff also make efforts to integrate elements of counseling into summer activities as well. From cooperative group work, to engaging in mindfulness and self-reflection while walking the trails at World's End, the Alt. Ed. program makes every attempt to ensure that each experience reinforces academic, transitional, and therapeutic skills, while teaching the importance of civic responsibility.