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Calais Celebrates Love of Reading at Read Across America Day

By |2022-03-07T13:50:51-05:00March 7th, 2022|Academics, High School, Inspiration, Lower School, Reading|

Calais students observed Read Across America Day by reading and wearing their favorite pair of crazy socks. As part of the fun, many Calais students enjoyed Dr. Seuss books including “Fox in Sox”. Some students read the books while others [...]

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Calais Cares: 12 Plus Students Donate Books to Local Charter School

By |2022-02-23T16:22:14-05:00February 23rd, 2022|12 Plus Program, Inspiration, Reading, Transition & Career Services|

Calais Students in the school’s 12 Plus Program are making the lives of students at a Newark charter school a little brighter with the gift of reading. On January 21, students in the 12 Plus Program visited the North Star [...]

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Calais Students Inspired by Cubism; Create Unique Works of Art

By |2022-02-15T17:39:26-05:00February 15th, 2022|High School, Inspiration, Lower School, The Arts at Calais|

Calais School students in the lower and upper schools enjoyed learning about Pablo Picasso in Mrs. Christine Orna’s recent art classes which worked on a unit on cubism. “Cubism paintings look at objects from many angles and show all their [...]

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Calais Celebrates School Choice Week and Calais Pride

By |2022-02-02T14:56:51-05:00February 2nd, 2022|12 Plus Program, Academics, Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, Calais Happenings, Counseling, High School, Inspiration, Lower School|

Calais School students are enjoying School Choice Week, with many activities celebrating the reasons students love Calais. And there are so many reasons! When asked what they enjoy about Calais, students say their friends, the caring staff, clubs, the support [...]

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Fostering Confidence Through In-House Work-Based Learning Opportunities

By |2022-02-02T11:50:17-05:00January 31st, 2022|12 Plus Program, Calais Happenings, Class Projects, Inspiration, Social Skills Building, Transition & Career Services|

Students in Calais’s 12 Plus Program participated in in-house Work-Based Learning (WBL) in order to gain confidence and reinforce key skills that they could then apply at off-campus work sites. Devin W., a 12 Plus student at The Calais School, [...]

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2021 – 2022 Parent Advocacy Virtual Conference Hosted by The Alliance of Private Special Education Schools of New Jersey

By |2022-01-26T12:49:45-05:00January 26th, 2022|High School, Inspiration, Lower School, Parent-Teacher Alliance, The Calais Institute|

Following the success of the 2020 virtual conference, the Alliance will again provide a series of virtual ZOOM presentations and workshops for parents for its 2021-2022 Conference. The goal of the renewed series to to ensure that parents and advocates [...]

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