AIM~Academy In Manayunk Highlights
  • Enrollment continues to grow with 160 students for the 2011-2012 school year
  • AIM moves to new campus at 1200 River Road, Conshohocken, PA at Miquon Station
  • AIM continues its affiliation with the 44 year model of The Lab School of Washington®
  • Our first graduating class will be June, 2012
  • AIM's curriculum is aligned with the PA Common Core State Standards.
  • AIM collaborates with Cabrini for qualifying seniors to be dual enrolled in college courses.
  • Juniors and Seniors participate in shadowing area business and community leaders.
  • All classroom teachers are Wilson Language System® Level I, many pursuing Level II.
  • Two Wilson Trainers on staff to insure program fidelity under AIM’s Wilson Partner School accreditation and to meet the increasing demands for Wilson training
  • All classroom teachers are trained in LETRS®, a leading research-based training program developed by Louisa Moats and endorsed by the state of Pennsylvania
  • Lower school teachers and speech and language pathologists trained in RAVE-O®, a vocabulary and fluency program developed by Dr. Maryanne Wolf from Tufts University
  • All classroom teachers are certified in Special Education, Reading, and/or Subject Expertise, many with Master's degrees in Special Education and Reading
  • 2 teachers working on their Ph.D; one faculty member is a CHOP fellow as well
  • 6 AIM Faculty are teaching at area Universities
  • 6 full-time Speech and Language Pathologists provide classroom instruction, teacher consultation, and individualized therapy to students
  • Speech and Language Pathologists are trained to provide Linguistics, Lindamood-Bell Visualizing Verbalizing®, RAVE-O and Suzanne Carreker's Metacognition programs
  • Temple University sends top Speech and Language interns to AIM
  • 5 Full time Occupational Therapists provide classroom instruction, teacher consultation, and individualized therapy to students
  • Occupational Therapists trained in Interactive Metronome
  • Thomas Jefferson University sends graduate level researchers and interns to explore the occupational therapy programs at AIM
  • 3 full time School Psychologists and 2 school psychologist interns provide evaluations, classroom instruction, teacher and parent consultation and support to students
  • Cogmed Working Memory site and research with Temple University
  • 3 Faculty members are certified as Fundations® Presenters
  • 4 Faculty Members are LETRS Trainers
  • Progress Monitoring including individual and group administered measures utilizing AIMSweb®, Fuchs curriculum-based assessment and other standard test measurements
  • 1500 teachers trained since inception of AIM Institute for Learning and Research
  • Internationally known consultant and past president of the International Dyslexia Association, Nancy Hennessey, consults in the areas of reading, writing and vocabulary
  • AIM Institute Speaker's Series will launch in February 2012 at River Park Campus location
  • Upper School sports teams in Soccer, Basketball, Crew, Golf and Softball; Cheerleading, Cross Country, and other sports expanding
  • Sports Clinics conducted by former professional sports figures
  • Expanded technology provides laptop and iPad program for students grades 6-12
  • International travel added to expand background knowledge for Upper School Students
  • West Chester University has named 6 teachers at AIM to their Educator 500 program for innovative and entrepreneurial educators over the past several years
  • St. Joseph's University taps educators at AIM to develop their Master's degree level online courses in Special Education; SJU Teacher Scholar program for graduate who receive their master's degrees and six graduate credits for interning at AIM, as well Wilson certification

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