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The Bridge Academy Receives Accreditation from The Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators!

We are proud to announce that The Bridge Academy has been awarded accreditation from The Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators. This has been a rigorous process over the course of three years. The OG Academy required a review and on-site evidence of multiple areas of a school’s program and instructional staff. The Bridge Academy is only the 10th school in the nation to join this elite list! This highly effective aproach to teaching language serves as the foundation of our instruction at The Bridge Academy. The principles of OG are applied in all content areas which has resulted in unprecedented gains for our students. For additional information please visit www.ortonacademy.org.

The Bridge Academy Holds 7th Graduation

The Bridge Academy held it's 7th high school graduation ceremony on Friday, June 11. Four students were in the graduating class of 2010.

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Summer STREAM Program

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Purchase our Art Exercises Workbook Here!

Our Art Exercises workbook provides teachers with a resource to help students practice the strokes of cursive handwriting in a creative, engaging format and see the practical applications in a form well accepted by the students. Sarah Bernotas developed the workbook to complement the handwriting strokes taught through the Orton Gillingham Approach used throughout The Bridge Academy. Since fluency in cursive handwriting continues to be cited through research as an asset for students in their writing, using drawing strokes to complement the cursive writing program achieves this balance and strengthens their motor connections.

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NOW AVAILABLE! Bridging the Gap Mathematics Text Book!

This curriculum includes the general outline for teaching the topics inherent in the Symbolize Level of the math curriculum at The Bridge Academy. The Symbolize Level of the curriculum emcompasses basic numeration and place value, calendar skills, time, money, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts, and basic spatial sense. Included in each lesson, the questioning techniques, preferred concrete manipulatives, description of using the manipulatives in the lesson, and whenever possible samples of pictorial and concrete follow-ups to lessons. These topics are also aligned with the NJCCCS for math.

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