Points of Pride
Ash Street Center's Points of Pride for 2025-26 School Year
Description:
Ash Street Center offers counseling, behavioral therapy, social-emotional learning, equine/music/art/group therapies, and wraparound supports designed to help students develop academic, behavioral, and coping skills in a structured, supportive environment.
Impact:
The therapies and supports provided at Ash Street Center help students improve emotional regulation, communication, social skills, and positive behavior, allowing them to better engage in learning and daily interactions. The students also build coping strategies, increase self-confidence, and develop the skills needed for greater academic success and independence, often resulting in a students’ ability to transition successfully back into less restrictive school environments and participate more positively in their families and communities.
Description:
Ash Street Center is proud of its staff and students for demonstrating resilience, growth, compassion, and dedication each day within a highly supportive learning environment. Our trained and caring staff members work collaboratively to provide therapeutic, academic, and behavioral support tailored to each student’s individual needs, creating meaningful opportunities for success, confidence, and personal growth.
Impact:
Students respond positively to the strong relationships and support provided by staff by developing coping skills, building healthy relationships, improving behavior and academic performance, and overcoming challenges. These supports help prepare students for continued success at school, at home, and within the community.
Description:
Ash Street Center utilizes Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) as a key framework for encouraging student success and positive behavior. Through the LiveSchool application, students’ positive behaviors are monitored and rewarded, allowing them to earn incentives such as shopping at the PBIS store and participating in special events throughout the year.
impact:
Students learn that positive choices lead to positive outcomes and incentives, encouraging them to consistently demonstrate the expectations of being “Respectful, Responsible, and Ready.” This system helps promote a positive school culture, strengthens student motivation, and supports behavioral growth and accountability.
Description:
Ash Street Center takes pride in its building! Classroom upgrades with a calming corner/reading nook/modern look & feel was a hit with the little ones. Our new sensory room, sturdy playground and upgraded gym have also been welcoming, engaging outlets for our students.
Impact:
Ash Street Center’s classroom and facility upgrades create a more welcoming, calming, and student-centered learning environment that supports both academic and emotional growth. Features such as calming corners and reading nooks help students self-regulate, reduce anxiety, and increase focus, while the modernized spaces promote comfort, pride, and engagement in learning. The sensory room, upgraded playground, and enhanced gym provide safe and therapeutic outlets for movement, sensory regulation, social interaction, and stress reduction, helping students build positive behaviors, improve emotional well-being, and strengthen readiness for learning.
Description:
Ash Street Center’s teachers utilize a variety of engaging instructional methods to meet the diverse learning needs of students. Through hands-on learning opportunities such as TouchMath, real-world experiences like studying plant life cycles, and collaborative teamwork activities, staff members recognize that every student matters and that every moment is an opportunity for meaningful learning and growth.
Impact:
By allowing students to learn through methods that best match their individual strengths and learning styles, students develop greater self-confidence, increased engagement, and a stronger love of learning. These experiences also help students build practical academic, social, and life skills that extend beyond the classroom and support success in everyday life.