mission statement

The Learning Curve of Wisconsin's mission is to provide consulting services and support to school personnel who are charged with planning and implementing educational programs for students with special needs. The Learning Curve of Wisconsin is dedicated to facilitating discussions with school teams who want to eliminate gaps and duplication of services for students.

The mission will be achieved by providing practical, research-based programming suggestions that will address student needs while capitalizing on the strengths of the child. In addition, inservice opportunities will be made available to school administrators, teachers, instructional aides and parents to help them understand how students with special needs can have their educational needs efficiently and effectively met without establishing separate systems. Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach, the services of the Learning Curve of Wisconsin will help schools and other agencies engineer comprehensive, seamless and efficient educational programming for students with special needs.

philosophy

• Educators need to work together to teach diverse learners in integrated settings. A service delivery model enables educators to provide services across children and enviornments in contrast with programs that are specifically designed for a particular subgroup of children.
• Collaborative teams comprised of special and general education teachers, parents, administrators, support staff and community resources must work together to provide systematic programming to meet the needs of all learners in a fiscally responsible manner.
• Reprimanding or isolating student behavior from a disability is not effective. Student behaviors can be proactively managed within the context of a comprehensive intervention program where consistent strategies are monitored and adjusted as necessary.
• When the needs of students of all abilities are met through the service delivery model, the stage is set for a broad range of educators to teach and learn together.
• Curriculum must be developed for the range of learners, using the standards as a guide. Virtually all students benefit from classrooms that are grounded in best-practice instruction and employ differentiated instruction for all learners.

objectives

• To provide inclusive programming options that will not fragment a student's day
• To facilitate discussions with school teams that will help them develop instruction and services to meet student needs proactively and preventively.
• To assist school personnel in meeting the needs of students in integrated, educational environments.
• To give research, direction and focus to school teams who want to maximize the utilization of instructional aides.
• To offer inservice opportunities to school teams who work with students with special needs.