Silver Valley Academy
Silver Valley Academy consists of four programs and includes Long Term Independent Study Program (K-12), the Success Program for special education (7-12), Emerging Ability Program for students with severe life handicapping conditions, and the Home and Hospital Program (K-12).
Long Term Independent Study program is designed to serve students and families from grades K-12 who find working in a home setting is the most beneficial environment for optimal learning given a variety of unique and individual or environmental factors. This may be for a variety of reasons, such as frequent illnesses, work, child care, acceleration, minor credit recovery, family, social issues, or other reasons that make a comprehensive high school less available to the particular learning style of the student. Students are able to perform independently using Board approved curriculum and instruction to master the California State Standards for each subject taken to meet the graduation requirements. The Long Term Independent Study curriculum is also aligned with the curriculum of the comprehensive high school. Besides maintaining a 2.0 GPA, students must sign an agreement to attend appointments with the independent study teacher for at least 2 hours weekly. Participation is voluntary and may continue semester by semester as long as the program meets the needs of the student and the student is successfully learning.
The Success Program is the most restrictive special education setting Silver Valley Unified School district offers and is intended for students in grades 7-12 with the disability determination of Severely Emotionally Disturbed or documented anti-social behavior issues that impedes the student’s academic progress. This setting provides a small structured environment that focuses on academics while addressing behavioral issues. The curriculum may be modified and or scaffold to meet the student’s individual needs according to their Individual Education Plan and includes a blend of textbook and online opportunities for students to master the California State Standards and meet the graduation requirements. Each student’s social, emotional, and or behavioral support plan is a major component of the success of the program as well.
The Emerging’s Abilities Program: The Silver Valley Unified School District believes that the potential for maximum learning is most effectively influenced on an individual basis, and that the more a person learns the more one develops the capacity to learn. The Emerging Abilities Program has just begun its third year of operation. Students with severe and or multiple severe disabilities are provided an array of educational opportunities including life skills and community based learning to promote and maximize each student’s potential and is aligned to their Individual Educational Plan
The Home and Hospital Program is designed for families whose child has a temporary condition which makes school attendance impossible or inadvisable and is designed to provide individual instruction in the student’s home, at a hospital, and or other residential health facility, excluding state hospitals. Students are provided five hour of instruction per week by a teacher with a valid California teaching credential who may consult with the student’s current classroom teacher(s) so as to provide a continuity of instruction that enables the student to stay abreast with the regular school program.