What do we do?
Lighthouse Education Center provides a positive learning environment, enabling students to achieve and enhance self-confidence, self-esteem, independence, social acceptance, intellectual and personal growth according to their Individualized Educational Program and Transitional Service Plan.
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Lighthouse Education Center is a center based special education facility designed to provide programs and related services to meet the education requirements of severely emotionally impaired and autistic impaired students. (Lighthouse Education Center, in addition the educational services provided by core curriculum instructors, offers the services of a technology/computer teacher and an autism consultant.) The center emphasizes positive reinforcement, personal responsibility, appropriate decision making skills and the development of socially acceptable behavior.
Weekly, students evaluate their personal goals and review their individual progress in learning to accept responsibility for their behavior, actions and the resulting consequences. It is the ultimate goal of the program at Lighthouse Education Center to help students develop the skills necessary to return to their local school program.
Placement is initiated through the local districts via the Individualized Education Program (IEP) process, when it is determined by the IEP team that the student’s educational needs and related service requirements cannot be adequately provided for within the residential school district.
All teachers and ancillary staff have approval in special education with appropriate certification.
Classrooms are staffed with paraprofessionals aligning to the MARSE requirements and Berrien RESA District Plan
We are here for YOU!
- We provide special education programs and related services for students with Severe Emotional Impairments and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- We provide educational programming to students in grade levels K-12 to meet the grade level content expectations.
- We provide instruction through the Life Centered Education Curriculum to students who are on the Certificate of completion path.
- We provide Community-based Instruction for students in both the high school diploma bound program as well as the certificate of completion program.
- We provide Support to local districts by BCBA personnel as well as transitional personnel for students transitioning back to local district