TY  - CHAP
AB  - Wings Academy is a charter school1in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that opened in August of 2002. It is located in the basement of an enormous, beautifully decorated and well maintained convent which houses several social service agencies, retired School Sisters who live there and another charter school. This school was envisioned and created by the authors (Co-Directors), two special education teachers (one is also a parent of a child with Asperger’s Syndrome) who believed the local districts were not providing an appropriate education for students with special education needs, and those with a label of “learning disabled” in particular. Prior to meeting, the Co-Directors had thoughts of creating their own Utopian school in which all students were taught with appropriate methodologies. By the time they had met, they both knew what their school would look like. Eventually, they combined their ideas and opened a school three years later. In this chapter, they describe the rationale for this school and programmatic realities that they have adapted to achieve their vision.
VL  - 16
SN  - 978-1-84950-287-0, 978-0-76231-130-9/0270-4013
DO  - 10.1016/S0270-4013(04)16013-3
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0270-4013(04)16013-3
AU  - La Porte Dani
AU  - Leather Nicola
ED  - Sandra Burkhardt
ED  - Festus Obiakor
ED  - Anthony F. Rotatori
PY  - 2005
Y1  - 2005/01/01
TI  - WINGS ACADEMY: A NEW CHARTER SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS WHO LEARN DIFFERENTLY
T2  - Current Perspectives on Learning Disabilities
T3  - Advances in Special Education
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 247
EP  - 264
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -