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The LEAP Program embraces students with kindness
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The Learning Essential Academic Program (LEAP) offered at NPHS allows students with special needs to learn in classrooms that focus on a teaching style directed to their individual needs. The LEAP program works to teach common core standards, ways to communicate efficiently and life skills. Anne Alvarez, LEAP advisor, has been the head of…
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Student resources benefit the community
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Wellness Center With the help of county funding, the brand new Wellness Center has opened on campus. It provides a safe space for students to go to relax and destress, with or without an appointment, giving support for students at varying levels. Paige Pensivy, a mental health clinician at the Wellness Center, encourages students…
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Learning together: Students collaborate through the LEAP program
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Every fourth period, Sophie Buffo, sophomore, heads to the special education classrooms to help as a teaching assistant. “I am able to learn so many new things about the students,” Buffo said. “Just walking around school you can see fellow students smile and interact with the special ed students,” Like Buffo, many people believe…