The Alternative Education Program (AEP) at Westford Academy is one for at risk students. The program has been in place for ten years and currently serves approximately 20 students. Its primary focus remains maintenance of a distinct academic resource environment within Westford Academy that is receptive of and prepared to work with students whose scholastic and/or social participation and development has critically declined to levels necessitating attention. The program is centered on meeting each individual student’s needs. To that end, every element of the program, from the intake process to the tailored instruction, is geared
to the individual.
AEP supports the student who has demonstrated an inability to maximize his or her full potential in a traditional classroom setting. Quite often, the students who are best fit for AEP are those who have demonstrated patterned absenteeism, tardiness, social remoteness, or mental health concerns. Many of the AEP students are court involved, have unstable home lives, or experience other issues that make success in the traditional classroom setting difficult. Nonetheless, AEP is not a special education program. Instead, it is program that provides for needy students an alternate route to academic success.
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