Poet Seat School is a Department of Education (DOE) Approved substantially separate day school for middle and high school students with emotional disabilities.  It offers special education services to students within the Greenfield School District and students who are tuitioned in from other school districts.

 

There are two classrooms: Middle School and High School, each staffed by a certified special education teacher. There are three counselor aides between the two classrooms.. In addition to a predictable behavioral level system and individualized instruction, there is a clinical orientation  in addressing the behavioral and social/emotional issues.  The mission of Poet Seat is to stabilize  our pre teens and adolescents so that they can return to a less restrictive setting.  Our goal is for the students to return to middle school and high school.  To ease the transition back, most Greenfield students initially return to the Transition Classes before integration into the main stream.  To foster re-entry into these settings, the curricula are aligned with the curricula of the respective schools.

 

On site is the program director who supervises the staff and runs Poet Seat. The clinical social worker works between Poet Seat and Strides, the substantially separate classroom for elementary age students with emotional disabilities,  housed in Newton School.

 

Poet Seat is a part of the Greenfield School Districts and follows the same calendar.  School transportation is provided within the district.  For those students whose Individual Education Plans (IEP) indicate an extended school year, there is a six weeks summer program.