Each student at Granite Hill School co-creates a class schedule that meets the requirements for earning a high school diploma, as well as addresses the student’s transitional goals and needs. This schedule is based on the Granite Hill School curriculum, which reflects New Hampshire Minimum Standards as well as the Common Core and New Hampshire Curriculum Frameworks. Students attend four classes a day as well as a Student-Centered Wellness block that allows for additional academic support, recreation, and other experiential activities. With class sizes of typically 4-6 students, teachers are able to provide a responsive classroom where competency based instruction can be implemented.
Granite Hill School also offers the support of a full time Mental Health Counselor, behaviorists, and para-educators who are trained to provide Rehabilitative Assistance in the forms of Trauma-Informed Practices, Differentiated Instruction, Vocational Training and Social Emotional Skills development.
Granite Hill School considers social emotional skills vital to a student’s future success. Each student at Granite Hill School has an Individual Social Development Plan (ISDP). The ISDP or Point Sheet is a structured way to reinforce pro-social behaviors. The ISDP includes goals that are derived from the five core competencies of Social Emotional Learning: self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. Students are reinforced in these five areas throughout the entire school day.