Dear Wilder School Community,

We’re The Designasaurs, a student design team at Dartmouth College, and we’re so excited to be working with The Wilder School to support its transition from the Behavior Modification Approach (BMA) to a Neuro-Affirming/Relational Approach (NARA)!

We’d love to hear from parents, guardians, teachers, and staff about your familiarity with this shift, whether you’ve received any information, and what kinds of resources would be most helpful in supporting students.

We’ve created two easy ways for you to share your thoughts:

Anonymous Survey for Parents & Guardians (Less than 5 minutes!)
We’d love your input on what’s working, what’s missing, and what would help you better understand NARA. Your responses are completely anonymous!

• Link to Anonymous Survey: https://tinyurl.com/WilderAnonymous

Sign Up for an Interview or Group Discussion!
If you're open to sharing more, we’re hosting one-on-one interviews and small group discussions with parents, teachers, and staff. Joining either is a great way to help shape how NARA is communicated and put into practice.

• Link to Availability Survey: https://tinyurl.com/TWSinterviews

Your feedback will help make sure everyone at The Wilder School has the support and information they need during this transition. Thank you for sharing your thoughts—we truly appreciate it!

Best,
The Designasaurs
Student Design Team at Dartmouth College

The unedited version of the plan in bill form is 176 pages long. The best way to read it if you are interested is click on this link. This is the plan that the Administration has been discussing since the beginning of the legislative session. In the bill, there are many more details. We will keep you posted on developments, but I thought it would be appropriate for everyone to have a copy should you desire to read the entire bill.

March 4th - Teacher Inservice. No School for students

March 11th - Music in Alternative Program and Art in Autism Program

March 14th - 2nd Trimester Ends for Aut. Program and the Elem. Classroom in the Alt. Program

March 17th - Alternative Program Goes Ice Skating

March 18th - Art in Alternative Program and Music in Autism Program

March 20th - Lockdown Drill

March 24th to 28th - Wilder is Wild About Reading!!!!

March 25th - Music in Alternative Program and Art in Autism Program

Vermont State Assessment Test (only for students living in Vermont):

Practice Test for Alternative Program: March 27th and 28th

Alternative Program: English Session 1= April 1

Alternative Program :English Session 2 = April 2

Alternative Program: Math Session 1= April 3

Alternative Program: Math Session 2 = April 8

Alternative Program: Science Session 1 = April 9

Alternative Program: Science Session 2 = April 10

Alternative Program: Make Up = Week of April 14

Students in the Autism Program will be assessed individually using the Alternative State Assessment.