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The daily student experience

An LSP class lasts 70 minutes and includes:
 

  • Individualized planning systems

  • Strategy instruction for reading, note-taking, and test and exam preparation

  • Assistance organizing major assignments, papers, and lab reports

  • Guided reflection on habits, progress, and challenges

  • Practice applying skills across courses

  • Group sharing and peer problem-solving

  • Regular communication with dorm faculty, advisors, and classroom teachers

  • Reinforcement of curriculum across math, foreign language, humanities, and science

  • Practice in self-advocacy: communicating learning profiles and needs with teachers

The LSP Faculty

4full-time instructors bring classroom experience across history, math, science, and world languages, and they understand how learning differences show up in a boarding school setting. They meet students with patience, clarity, and consistency.

Learning Skills Staff
 

Mollie Brumfield 

Director of Learning Skills Program; Advisory Coordinator; River & Outdoor

Charlotte Charlton 

Learning Specialist

Gracejean Hennigar

Founder of the Learning Skills Program and LSP consultant/advisor.

Trish O’Leary 

Learning Specialist

Desmond Smith 

Math; LSP; Director of Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging;Hall Leader 2nd Scott;Boys & Girls Tennis Program Leader