The Treffert Way is a K-9 school of optional enrollment for all students, inclusively designed to provide diverse learners with an appropriately matched educational environment that will invite them to explore and recognize their potential for life success. Our foundation is built on the six components of the Treffert Approach.
Our community-engaged school offers a safe learning environment where students are taught social-emotional skills, self-regulation, and empathy based on their individualized learning plan (TAP – Treffert Approach Plan). Our goal is that through their educational experience our students will tap into their full potential to become life-long learners and actively thrive in their communities.
Strength Based - Learner Centered: We hold the core belief that all students have strengths and talents. Our aim is to build upon each student’s skills and interests by assisting them in developing goals to reach their potential. We?support learners in developing new skills and participating in developmentally appropriate activities across environments.?
Nurturing Relationships: Building healthy and strong relationships is at the foundation of all we do. Consideration of past and present relationships leads us to taking a trauma-informed approach to generate authentic and mutually respectful relationships
Sensory Aware: We identify and understand differences in how the world is experienced, perceived and processed. We support individuals in learning strategies to assist them in interacting with others and their environment successfully. This includes opportunities to learn and practice empathy, resilience, self-regulation and build environmental awareness.
Natural Environment: We utilize everyday events to cultivate authentic growth opportunities for our learners both academically and socially/emotionally.
Systems: We understand the best outcomes occur when we invest in relationships with learners, staff, families, and community partners and when we listen, learn and work together to achieve shared goals.?
Accurate Assessment: We recognize each student for who they are, supporting them with an individualized, comprehensive educational experience developed by our multi-disciplinary team of educators and the student.
Highlights of school:
Recipient of the 2020 Eden-Schneider Award from Envision Greater Fond du Lac
June 2022 recipients of a grant for Treffert Way High School, to open in 2023-2024 school year
Facts:
- Part of the North Fond du Lac School District
- Opened in the 2019-2020 school year
- Currently, serving 60 students in grades K-9
What you have to offer:
A day in the life of a Treffert Way student
- 8:15-8:45 Soft Start
- 8:45-9:00 Advisory
- 9:00-10:00 Literacy
- 10:00-10:30 Milk/Snack/Recess/Gym/Movement
- 10:30-11:30 Projects/Exploration
- 11:30-12:00 Lunch
- 12:00-1:00 Math
- 1:00-1:30 Recess/Gym/Movement
- 1:30-2:00 Social Group
- 2:00-3:00 Projects/Exploration/Phy Ed
- 3:00 End of the Day Advisory
- 3:15 Dismissal
Other activities include: walking to Spillman library, music (middle schoolers can join band or choir at Bessie Allen Middle School), art (taught by our own Miss Missie) and walking to the park
Things your school has accomplished:
- All students have an individualized Treffert Approach Plan (TAP)
Please visit www.treffertway.com for more information.
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