The teaching, modeling, practicing and reinforcing of the social-emotional, coping, and the academic skills necessary to help students develop healthy attitudes that can be transferred back into the general educational setting and beyond. The New Student Road Map is used as a guide for student’s being referred to the program.

Students who potentially qualify for services at Newbridge Learning Academy typically exhibit all or most of the following characteristics:

• Displays severe behavioral, emotional and/or social concerns, that may include internalizing or externalizing behaviors
• Displays continual chronic patterns of behavior that impacts their learning and/or the learning of others to a marked degree, which may include aggressive, physical or unsafe behaviors toward self or others
• As evidenced by collected data, the student has not responded to a Tiered System of individualized behavior interventions/supports in a less restrictive environment
• May require specially designed instruction in one or more academic areas
• Has shown benefit from access to mental health and/or wrap around services

One of the key areas of our programming, is that students learn and work to self-manage their behaviors as they progress through a three-level system focusing on the three foundational program expectations of; respect, responsibility, and safety. The Newbridge program schedule is designed to provide students an opportunity to self asses in the three areas, every 20 minutes during interval “checkouts”.

Too, the Newbridge team weaves its 12 Guiding Elements, (Link to 12 Elements) into a points/level system that assists in monitoring and documenting student growth and progress. The Newbridge team utilizes researched based curriculum (i.e. AIM) and individual student data to promote student’s social-emotional skill development in complement with teachable moments throughout the day.

A student’s Newbridge experience is culminated with an intentional, gradual reintegration process (Student Exit Road Map) involving the Newbridge team, district and school personnel, and importantly, the student’s family.

As each student arrives to Newbridge with their own unique set of challenges and areas of need . . .

Students will develop the self-regulation skills necessary to maintain expected classroom behaviors for 80% of the school day as measured by daily (a.m./p.m.) point totals.

Through the use of researched-based classroom management strategies, students display of problem behaviors will be reduced in severity and duration to a degree that can be proactively managed in a classroom setting as evidenced through staff observations.

Students will be reintegrated back into a less restrictive environment after meeting social, emotional, and behavioral criteria as determined through data by the NLA staff and district/school’s IEP team. 

Newbridge Learning Academy follows 12 guiding elements: 

1. Establish and maintain a positive relationship with ALL students
2. Use of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
3. Our SEL curriculum encompasses engaging lessons and activities that promote self-awareness, self-management, decision making and social skills
4. Daily proactive classroom management strategies are consistently used
5. A points and levels system is used to reward and document students' positive behavior
6. Our least to most intentional prompting addresses targeted behaviors
7. Classroom lessons provide effective and rigorous academic instruction to students across a variety of present levels
8. Students meeting program expectations are recognized and earn personalized rewards
9. Students in crisis are guided through a process (Reboot) to de-escalate and demonstrate classroom readiness
10. The Newbridge Team works daily to keep our parents engaged, informed and supported
11. Daily team debriefs assist the team in immediately identifying and addressing new opportunities for student growth 
12. Weekly Self Governance meetings are held to help students reflect, learn, and grow from each other

The development of the Newbridge program was supported and endorsed by nationally recognized, Diana Browning Wright, Co-Founder of Positive Environments . . .

 "I am so impressed with what has been accomplished in such a very short period of time. Due to everyone’s skill and commitment to the program, Newbridge has made more progress than any other start up program I’ve had anywhere in the country."

 "The entire team, from administration, to mental health support, to teaching excellence is just astounding. I feel certain that expanding the program with this foundation is going to lead to even more students in districts coming to Newbridge to achieve success.”                                                                                                              

 Diana Browning Wright, M.S., L.E.P.