The Four-Phase Approach

At Pineland Learning Center we have developed a results oriented four-phase approach to comprehensive education.  Our dynamic approach is based on experience, best practice, and evidence-based practice.

STABILIZATION: Assures regular attendance and the environmental control of desirable behaviors, social skills, emotional control, and academic productivity that should occur as self-regulation on the part of the student.

DEMYSTIFICATION: Shifts our attention toward behavioral, social, emotional, and academic areas in which a student needs improvement.  Our advanced team assessment seeks to demystify (determine) why students do what they should not do and/or do not do what they should do for success.  We then develop a course of action for students to overcome their barriers.

EMPOWERMENT: Draws upon the sustained consistency of regular attendance, proper behavior, effective social skills, emotional control, and academic mastery.  At this phase, for the individual student, we begin to lessen environmental control while we increasingly build and reinforce self-control.  However, while it is highly desirable for students to attend, behave, and produce, the true measure of the effectiveness of our program is the student’s willingness, ability, and consistency at self-regulation.

REINTEGRATION: Changes our focus from the attainment and consistency of regular attendance, proper behavior, effective social skills, emotional control, and academic mastery toward actualizing the overriding goal of transitioning a student to a less restrictive setting.  Planning at this phase considers a student’s optimal level of functioning, transitional goals, appropriateness and availability of programs, continued support, and timing.