Education Program at Discovery Academy
Boarding School

The objective of the educational department is to nurture and sustain the academic progress of our students. The majority of our students have come to us from other boarding schools or outdoor education programs. As a therapeutic boarding school, Discovery Academy’s three-part program of individualized therapy, group living, and education all combine to build upon the students previous successes while acting as a safety net when the student lapses into old behavior patterns. To facilitate this success, our boarding school seeks to maintain a safe, orderly, and friendly environment that fosters human dignity and personal responsibility.

The objectives are based upon the following beliefs:

All members of the boarding school community should consistently exhibit, through speech and behavior, the attributes of honesty, kindness, gratitude, caring, courtesy, empathy, personal discipline, self-respect, and commitment to learning.

Students can learn, achieve, and be responsible for their own actions when they follow a personalized academic program that is created and monitored jointly by the student, their parents, teachers, and therapists.

All of the boarding school activities should have a clear educational purpose that supports and enriches personalized academic programs. These activities include continued outdoor education as well as experiential learning opportunities.

Some of the outdoor education activities include a wilderness group and physical science excursions. These outdoor education activities blend recreation and science through fishing trips, hiking in the backcountry and campouts. As students successfully participate in these varied learning activities, they develop personal interest as well as academic, aesthetic, physical, and socials skills.

We believe that earnest pursuit of these objectives will justify our existence as an institution and have a strong, positive effect upon the lives of the young people we serve.

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