- Meadowood Program
- Welcome
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Students in the Meadowood Program attend Forest Oak Elementary School for their elementary years. The elementary program strives to enhance the beginning acquisition skills that were developed in preschool into a set of well-learned abilities for students to take into middle school.
Students learn in the areas of personal, social and academics through lessons adapted to their individual learning level with same-age peers.
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The middle school program for Meadowood students is located at H. B. duPont Middle School. During the middle school years, students begin to utilize their skill set across a greater variety of settings. While maintaining their involvement with the inclusive classrooms, students begin to experience vocational exploration and community-based instruction.
Areas of focus during the middle school years include the development of money skills, personal planning, social interactions, and experiencing a vocational setting.
Middle school helps to prepare students for their high school years and a greater emphasis on community-based instruction and vocational exploration.
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Thomas McKean High School hosts Meadowood Program students for their high school years. Starting in the fall of 2012, ninth grade students participating in the Meadowood Program began attending McKean High School. Meadowood students will attend Mckean following their graduation from HB duPont Middle School. High school is a period of time in which students broaden their skill sets across multiple settings. A significant reason for the transition to McKean High School centered upon the enhancements that the school is currently making to their Career and Technical Education (CTE) program. During the school year, the CTE program will include classes focused upon Agricultural Science, Family and Consumer Science, Childcare, and Radio and Television Broadcasting. Along with specific curricula explore in each classroom, these classes also give increased opportunity for Meadowood students to enhance their functional independent living skills, as well as have increased involvement in vocational experiences that help create a better pathway to future paid employment. The vocational rotations, community instruction, and inclusive classes provide an opportunity for students to refine skills necessary for them to experience success after completion of the high school program.
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Meadowood Transition Program (MTP)
The Meadowood Transition Program (MTP) is a functional life skills program for students, age 18-22, with moderate to severe disabilities, based at the Meadowood campus in the Red Clay Consolidated School District.
The purpose of the Meadowood Transition Program is to assist students in gaining skills and experiences that will benefit them as adults. It is also an aim of the program to connect the students and their families with post-22 employment and agencies that will assist them after they leave the program. Programming is based upon individual needs and preferences in domestic, communication, personal management, and vocational areas.
The students start their day at the MTP site on the Meadowood School campus. They then travel to various community destinations during the day with paraeducators, who have been grouped into teams to work with specific students. Based on individual needs and preferences, multiple goals in vocational, social, domestic, communication, personal management, and functional academic domains are addressed.
