vision school

Vision School is a cooperative partnership with the Student Affairs Office of the Providence School Department. Placement in Vision School is for students who have difficulty adjusting to a community school for a variety of reasons.

Whitmarsh House has developed an alternative educational setting for these students who require a period of adjustment and are in need of close supervision. Vision School is a safe haven for students who are residents of the Whitmarsh program.

Vision School offers a curriculum based on Providence School Department including courses at both middle and high school level. Students are scheduled according to course work completed at previous schools by the school director. Vision elective courses include but are not limited to introduction to computers, art, and travel and tourism. It is in these courses that Project Vision students are first "mainstreamed."

Project Vision
Project Vision is a cooperative program between Whitmarsh House and the Providence School Department Special Education Office. Students placed in this program are Whitmarsh residents with Individual Educational Plans (IEP) that call for small alternative school placements.

Project Vision offers resident students a course of study based on Providence School Department middle school and high school curriculums with accommodations made for individual learning styles.

The present contract calls for ten residents who require self-contained alternative school settings. The main goal of Project Vision is to integrate these students to mainstream classes first within Vision School and ultimately into community schools.

Whitmarsh residents range in age from 12 to 18; therefore, Project Vision students are in grades 6 to 12. These students take 3 or more courses in a self-contained classroom with a certified special education teacher.

To complete their course work, health/physical education, and other elective courses are taken with Vision School. These elective courses, with Vision School students, are a first step to returning to a placement within a community school.

Vision School/Project Vision Program of Studies

Middle School
Grades 6-8
English/Language Arts
Social Studies
Basic and Earth Science
Foundations of Math and Pre-algebra

High School
Grade 9
English (General & College Preparatory)
Western Civilization
General Science
Algebra I

Grade 10
English (General & College Preparatory)
US History Part I
Biology
Geometry

Grade 11
English (General & College Preparatory)
US History Part II
Chemistry
Algebra II

Grade 12
English (General & College Preparatory)
Psychology
Physical Science
Computer Science

Links
Providence School Department
Pawtucket School Department