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Profile of A Winston Student
Profile of a Winston Student
Why families choose Winston.
Families turn to Winston when they recognize that a traditional school setting isn’t meeting their child’s academic needs. Our students are bright and capable, yet haven’t found consistent success in other academic environments. At Winston, we offer the targeted support, structure, and specialized instruction students need to thrive and demonstrate their true potential.
Why families choose Winston.
Families turn to Winston when they recognize that a traditional school setting isn’t meeting their child’s academic needs. Our students are bright and capable, yet haven’t found consistent success in other academic environments. At Winston, we offer the targeted support, structure, and specialized instruction students need to thrive and demonstrate their true potential.
What makes Winston unique.
At Winston, we don’t define students by what they struggle with, we focus on how they learn best. Our experienced teachers use a strengths-based approach to help students build confidence and independence. Our students often arrive with language-based learning differences or other learning challenges, which may include:
At Winston, we don’t define students by what they struggle with, we focus on how they learn best. Our experienced teachers use a strengths-based approach to help students build confidence and independence. Our students often arrive with language-based learning differences or other learning challenges, which may include:
- ADHD: Difficulty with attention and concentration, which impacts multiple areas of learning.
- Anxiety: Persistent worry that affects academic performance and social engagement.
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Challenges in making sense of spoken language, despite typical hearing.
- Dyscalculia: Difficulty understanding numbers, operations, and mathematical concepts.
- Dysgraphia: Challenges with written expression, handwriting, and/or spelling.
- Dyslexia: Reading difficulties related to identifying and connecting sounds to letters and words, affecting reading accuracy, fluency, decoding, and encoding.
- Decoding: Struggles applying rules to sound out unfamiliar words.
- Encoding: Challenges breaking words into sounds for accurate spelling.
- Fluency: Difficulty reading with appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression.
- Executive Functioning Weaknesses: Struggles with task initiation, organization, planning, prioritizing, time management, and decision-making.
- Phonological Awareness Deficits: Challenges with blending, segmenting, or isolating sounds in spoken language.
- Processing Deficits (Processing Speed, Verbal Processing, and Visual/Spatial Processing): Slower pace in understanding and responding to information, difficulty understanding and using verbal and written language, and/or struggles interpreting visual information, especially spatial or geometric material.
- Reading Comprehension Difficulties: Struggles with understanding and interpreting text.
- Receptive/Expressive Language Delays: Difficulty understanding spoken or written language (receptive) and sharing thoughts and ideas verbally or in writing (expressive).
- Working Memory Weaknesses: Difficulty temporarily holding and manipulating information.
- Written Expression Difficulties: Challenges with structuring, organizing, and articulating ideas in writing.
A place to learn and grow.
At Winston, we believe that every student can succeed when given the right tools, support, and encouragement. We help students rediscover the joy of learning, build self-confidence, and develop skills that will carry them into the next stage of their academic journey, and beyond.
At Winston, we believe that every student can succeed when given the right tools, support, and encouragement. We help students rediscover the joy of learning, build self-confidence, and develop skills that will carry them into the next stage of their academic journey, and beyond.
Students who thrive at Winston.
- Have average to above-average intelligence but may struggle in specific academic areas due to learning differences.
- Show clear strengths alongside areas that require targeted support
- Benefit from small class sizes, individualized attention, and accommodations that meet their unique learning profiles.
- Do not require a therapeutic environment for behavioral or psychological challenges.
- May need extra time to process information and opportunities to revisit material in a supportive setting.
- Learn best when instruction plays to their strengths while addressing areas of need with specialized strategies.
- May benefit from integrated services such as Occupational Therapy (OT) and Speech Language Therapy (SLP), with these supports embedded into daily instruction.
- Embody the values we call the Winston Roots: Caring, Citizenship, Courage, Honesty, Imagination, Respect, and Responsibility.
The Winston School of Short Hills
30 East Lane
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Phone: 973-379-4114 | Email: info@winstonschool.org
30 East Lane
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Phone: 973-379-4114 | Email: info@winstonschool.org
