For many years, the Skill-building Opportunities for Academic Resiliency (SOAR) program at the Chisago Lakes Education Center (CLEC) has supported students with significant communication and behavioral needs (e.g., students with developmental disabilities). Now, a SOAR North program has been created at the Vision school in Pine City!
This has been a massive undertaking for SCRED staff and Vision staff! For example, Sarah, our Director of Special Education, and her husband spent a Sunday building panels for SOAR North! Students will benefit from these panels for years to come, helping to control sensory input so these students can regulate and focus. What a gift, Sarah!! 👏
A group of SCRED and Vision staff also went on a fact finding mission to CLEC (to visit the O.G. SOAR program) and to ISD 917 to visit a similar program!