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Poet Seat School is a Department of Education (DOE) Approved substantially separate day school for middle and high school students with emotional disabilities. It offers a free and appropriate education to students within the Greenfield School District and tuitions in students from other school districts.
There are two classrooms: middle school and high school, each staffed by a special education teacher and two counselor aides. In addition to a predictable behavioral level system and individualized instruction, there is a clinical orientation to working with the students. Our mission is to stabilize the pre teens and adolescents so that they can return to a less restrictive setting – the middle school, high school or a transition class within each of the schools. To foster re-entry into these settings, the curricula are aligned with the curricula in the middle school and high school
On site are the Program Director and the Clinical Director, both of whom also supervise and manage the elementary site, Strides, house in Newton School.
Poet Seat is a part of the Greenfield School Districts and follows the same calendar. School transportation is provided within the district. For those students whose Individual Education Plans (IEP) indicate an extended school year, there is a six weeks summer program..
Our Staff
We have an experienced and dedicated group of teachers and administrators. Each teacher strives to create a supportive and challenging classroom atmosphere to encourage students to participate. We may introduce a teacher on this page, or have a teacher of the month feature like the one below.
Congratulations to Poet Seat student Amber Marshall, whose poem, Friend, has been selected to be published in the Summer 2005 hardbound anthology titled A Celebration of Young Poets-Summer 2005.
Friend
Energetic little hero
Always here to comfort you
When you need me,
Friend
This is indeed an honor as most entries submitted to Creative Communication's Student Writing Contest Headquarters (http://www.poeticpower.com) are not selected to be published. You go girl!!!
Contact Information:
Elizabeth Blumgarten, Program Coordinator
1A Lenox Avenue
Greenfield, MA 01301
(413)772-1399
Page last updated: January 22, 2007
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