Learning Resources
Supporting students to become active, enthusiastic, and independent learners in a caring environment
Each division is staffed with learning specialists who support students who need additional assistance in meeting the expectations of the school’s enriched and challenging curriculum. Because it is recognized that students possess individual learning strengths and weaknesses and often achieve success in a variety of ways, our learning specialists strive to identify and help students who may need additional support to meet their academic potential. Collaboration and partnership with teachers and parents are an essential component of learning support.
Lower School
The Lower School Learning Support program collaborates with families to work with students at risk or students with diagnosed learning differences. Support is provided through individualized support, accommodations, and teacher/parent consultations. The Lower School literacy program supports readers at risk by ongoing informal assessments and enhancing the students’ language comprehension (background knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, language structure, verbal reasoning, literacy knowledge) and word recognition (phonological awareness, decoding, and sight word recognition).
Middle School
Students are expected to seek extra support from their teachers during advisory sessions dedicated to Academic Coaching and during teachers’ posted Office Hours before or after school. Advisors play an important role in helping students develop good academic habits. The divisional learning specialist and the Assistant Head of Middle School for Academics also provide 1:1 or small group support for students struggling with academic performance, executive functioning, or study skills. Academic accommodations are available to those with well-documented learning differences or attentional disorders.
Upper School
Students are encouraged to see their teachers during Office Hours (3:30-4:00 pm) or a study block. The Peers Assisting with Learning Support (PALS) program pairs students who need support in a specific course or subject with a peer tutor. Additionally, three learning specialists are available to students who need support with executive functioning skills or have diagnosed learning differences. Students with documented attentional, psychological, and/or learning disorders may receive academic accommodations.
The John Cooper School
From Curiosity to Wisdom
The John Cooper School is an independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory day school. Our mission is to provide a challenging education in a caring environment to a diverse group of select students, enabling them to become critical and creative thinkers, effective communicators, responsible citizens and leaders, and lifelong learners.
The John Cooper School seeks to attract qualified individuals of diverse backgrounds to its faculty, staff, and student body. The School does not discriminate against any individual in admissions, educational programs, personnel policies, general practices, or employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, physical disability, or age.
The John Cooper School seeks to attract qualified individuals of diverse backgrounds to its faculty, staff, and student body. The School does not discriminate against any individual in admissions, educational programs, personnel policies, general practices, or employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, physical disability, or age.
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