Big Cities, Small Towns, Public & Private Schools AlertSeats™ Gaining Foothold In America’s Schools Big cities and small towns; special needs classes and regular ed; public schools and private: AlertSeats are finding their way into America’s classrooms. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the state’s second largest city, AlertSeats are helping in the Pittsburgh Conroy School, a center-based special…
DetailsRural School District Takes Creative Approach Potter County in north central Pennsylvania is one of the most remote of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties. It is home to fewer than 18,000 people and is served by neither air, rail, nor interstate highway links. And though few Pennsylvanians have ever visited it, Potter County contains some of…
DetailsSchool District Turns To Fund Raising The Hatboro-Horsham School District in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, enjoys a strong tax base, the support of parents and the communities it serves, and recognition from both the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the United States Department of Education for excellence in education. Yet even Hatboro-Horsham faces difficult choices at…
DetailsKindergarten Students Are Moved to Learn Winter comes early to the Monadnock region of western New Hampshire, and it stays late. Nonetheless, students in Terri Carsons kindergarten class at the Hillsboro-Deering Elementary School get to hike, jog run and bounce every day without leaving their classroom. The activity in Mrs. Carsons class is…
DetailsPennsylvania Intermediate Unit Adopts AlertSeats™ and AlertDesks™ To evaluate AlertSeats™ and AlertDesks™ for possible use in special education classrooms, the Montgomery County (Pa.) Intermediate Unit acquired samples of the devices and distributed them to classrooms in some of the 22 school districts it serves. Then teachers were asked to provide feedback. That information resulted in…
DetailsPennsylvania School Goes To The Dogs – In A Good WayThe Hill Top Academy is a Lab school, but not the kind of lab school associated with a college education department. The Labs are Labrador retriever (plus one golden retriever) service dogs that help children deal with emotional and behavioral issues that stand in the…
DetailsThe ARC Steps Up For Indiana Special Education Students Portland, Indiana, is the kind of small Midwestern town where everybody knows everybody else and where people pitch in to help when a need is known. It’s a place where students get a day off school for the annual Tractor and Gas Engine Show, and…
DetailsConroy School Serves A Special Student PopulationHeinz Field, home of the Steelers, and PNC Park, where the Pirates play, are landmarks for sports lovers on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Just a few blocks away, the Pittsburgh Conroy Education Center is a landmark for students with special needs.Pittsburgh Conroy is officially a landmark, as well, since the…
DetailsSchool Located Near Historic Site! Most of the twenty eight classrooms at the Sporting Hill Elementary School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, have at least one ball chair. Some are manufactured by Newman Adaptive, maker of the AlertSeat™; others come from a competitor. But whatever they are called, teachers see great benefits in using them. Said one…
DetailsWhen Howard Newman invented the AlertSeat™, it was students like the ones at the Jesse J. Kaplan School in West Nyack, New York who were foremost in his mind. The Kaplan School focuses exclusively on students with autism, intellectual disabilities, medical fragility, and multiple disabilities, many of them severe. Located in Rockland County on the…
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