Educational Support Services

The mission of Capital Christian School Educational Support Services (ESS) is to provide individualized, quality intervention for students with learning challenges to enable them to successfully realize their God- given potential.

Capital Christian School began ESS in 1987 with the desire to see all students equipped to become successful, confident, independent learners and to help them discover their gifts and talents. Understanding that not all students learn and progress through traditional educational settings at the same pace or rate of success, ESS strives to provide students with the tools and skills needed to overcome individual learning challenges and become both academically and socially victorious. The costs of these educational services are not included in the standard tuition and prices vary depending on the program. ESS offers the programs listed to the left.

Teach: Kindergarten - 1st Grade

The TEACH early intervention program meets the educational needs of kindergarten and 1st graders before they experience the frustration of learning failure. Students receive one-on-one instruction in readiness skills necessary for reading success. For more information, please visit www.NILD.net.

Learning Center: 2nd - 5th Grade

The Elementary Learning Center provides targeted help for 2nd - 5th grade students who have academic needs. Students are released for xx minutes from their regular classroom schedule to attend Learning Center classes. Services include Read Naturally and small group tutoring in language arts and math. Read Naturally is a program that develops reading fluency, accuracy, comprehension and vocal expression. For more information, please visit www.readnaturally.com.

NILD Educational Therapy: 2nd - 12th Grade

The National Institute for Learning Development (NILD) therapy program trains 2nd - 12th grade students with identified learning differences to be successful in a traditional academic setting and to develop their skills in self-advocacy. The program accomplishes this through 160 minutes of one-on-one therapy per week with a trained NILD Educational Therapist. Educational therapy is a supplementary program established to help students with learning difficulties who have experienced frustration and/or failure in school. NILD therapy stimulates areas of weakness in perception, basic skills and cognition to function effectively through intensive, interactive stimulation producing independent, successful learners. Elementary releases therapy students from their regular classroom for two 80-minute sessions per week. In middle school and high school, students take educational therapy as a scheduled class. For more information, please visit www.NILD.net.

Prerequisite: Identified Learning Disability with testing of Woodcock Johnson III, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children IV and the Bender Motor Gestalt.

Coaching Plan: 6th - 12th Grade

The Coaching Plan assists students in 6th - 12th grade in developing skills and habits necessary for academic success. This after-school session trains students with organizational or accountability issues to become more independent and successful in the classroom. Specific areas emphasized include organizing and maintaining notebooks and lockers; use of planners for daily and long-term assignments, projects, papers and tests; and effective time management strategies to complete school work while maintaining proper family and social balances. The coach acts as a liaison between the student, teachers and parents.

Study Skills Lab: 9th - 12th Grade

This one-semester course assists students in developing specific study skills that allow them to achieve academic success. The course focuses on the most important learning tasks in school, including personal organization, day planner organization, time management, listening, participating and taking notes in class, completing reading assignments, writing school papers, and preparing for and taking tests. Students’ current assignments provide the opportunity to practice these skills. Students receive remedial help in subject areas with an emphasis on written language. Other strategies help students to learn and think logically, and to become confident, independent learners. Prerequisite: Teacher/Dean recommendation.

Tutoring: 2nd - 12th Grade

Students meet with teachers before or after school to receive support in all academic areas, including homework help, test preparation and organizational strategies.