Since 1965, Gateway has recognized that students with learning disabilities can learn and find success in mainstream classrooms, provided their learning needs are addressed early and through the best practices for teaching students how to learn.
Academic Program
The Gateway School’s academic program is designed to achieve its mission to develop skilled, strategic learners. Students learn the skills and strategies that are necessary for achieving their potential, develop the confidence to recognize their success, and gain an understanding for how they learn to be successful self-advocates.
Language, language, language. School is about language: all subjects, content, and instruction is accomplished through language. In Reading, Writing, and Language classes and in all content classes, students develop competency in the use of language to comprehend, to think clearly and logically, and to be effective communicators whether speaking, reading, or writing. Through an ongoing professional development program, teachers are taught how to use language as they teach, how disruptions or delays in the development of students’ language abilities impact on their thinking and learning, and how to integrate language instruction into all the content areas.
