Special Education at The Anderson School

For more details or to contact The Anderson School, we invite you to visit the school website at http://andersoneducation.org. 

The Anderson School is designed to meet the needs of middle and/or senior high school students requiring a setting in which conditions that distract or over-stimulate them in the large-group regular education environment can be controlled, reduced, or eliminated for instruction.

The Anderson School provides emotional support in an off-campus setting for students with Individual Educational Plans as well as for non-identified students needing similar services. Highly qualified professional staff provide instruction in the general education curriculum aligned with Pennsylvania State Standards.

Primary Goal:    

The Anderson School seeks to promote emotional growth while helping students develop a new and purposeful direction in their lives.  

Program Features: 

• Curriculum maps and assessments linked to Pennsylvania State Standards
• Group Counseling
• Inclusion opportunities at area centers for vocational technology
• Individual therapeutic intervention including stress management and/or cognitive behavioral techniques
• Individual supported instruction
• Industrial Arts, Family Consumer Science, and Ceramic Studio
• Multimedia technology including web based video streaming
• Music appreciation provided by the Kardon Institute
• Psychiatric evaluation
• Specially Designed Instruction:
  • Anderson Behavior Support System, Anger Management, Bully Prevention and Restorative Justice, Character Education, Conflict Resolution, Peer Mediation, Prosocial Behavior Training
• Individualized Educational Planning and Assessment
• Data driven IEP Development

Supportive services included:

• Community-Based Instruction
• Behavior Management
• Psychological Support
• Psychiatric Support
• Regular Physical Education
• Social Work Services
• Transition Services

Related services:

• Cost will be calculated based on the child’s IEP

 As a result of unbundling costs of IU special education programs, districts will be billed directly for the actual amount of related services on a student’s IEP.