Farr Academy

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The Farr Academy staff consists of administrators, clerical staff, teacher/counselors, clinical staff and consultants. The overall program student/staff ratio is 2:1. The 2:1 ratio includes all staff involved in providing direct services to students, including tutoring and school-to-career counseling. At Farr Academy the quality and capability of each staff person is believed to be of primary importance. We therefore hire staff based on their ability to work well with the students at Farr Academy as well as for their professional credentials.

Farr Academy is a therapeutic day school serving students in grades 7 through 12 with a range of emotional and learning problems. We provide an array of services that meet the individual strengths and weaknesses of each student. Skilled teacher/counselors, small structured classes, group and individualized curriculum aligned to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, one-to-one tutoring as needed, and college preparatory courses provide a comprehensive approach to meet the diverse needs presented by students.

Many of our students are frequently confronted by problems, some of their own creation and others they have no control over. They rarely have developed a means of dealing effectively with them. We provide our students the opportunity to learn the basic skills that enable them to become problem solvers and sound decision makers through counseling and our system of problem solving meetings. They learn to solve conflicts, discuss differences of opinion, clarify confusions, and work through frustrations. Through discussion and reflection, they learn to identify the real problem.

Parent involvement is of primary importance in the overall effectiveness of our program. To this end, we provide a variety of opportunities for parents to share their insights and issues with us, and for us to share our knowledge, experience and support with them. We offer weekly, semi-monthly or monthly counseling with our Parent Worker in addition to scheduled Parent Advisory Group meetings. If the family is receiving support from an outside agency, our Parent Worker can provide a linkage between the two agencies.

VIII Parent Involvement Consistent with the philosophy of Farr Academy, parent involvement is an essential ingredient in creating an environment that most effectively helps students grow and develop in all aspects of their academic, social, and emotional experiences. A parent clinical coordinator is on staff to provide parents easy access to the school, so that we can work together as we deal with issues that impact students negatively or are an outgrowth of their specific disability.

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