Welcome to Arrowsmith School Online
Build a Stronger Brain. Create a New Reality. Transform your Future.
Welcome to Arrowsmith Schools’ newest location – online!
We are so pleased to introduce this new community and look forward to
supporting your family through cognitive change
– Adriene Pratt – Head of School
About Us
Our History
The Arrowsmith Program has been creating new realities and transforming the futures for those with learning difficulties since 1978 when its program of cognitive exercises was first offered to students with learning difficulties.
What we have discovered over the past four decades in our real-world lab at the Arrowsmith Schools, Canada, and in 90 classrooms around the world, is that learning capacities can be enhanced. This has been reflected by multiple academic studies performed at several universities in four countries. Learn more about our research
Arrowsmith School Online opens its virtual doors on the 8th of September 2020, providing online access to our individualized cognitive programs to students, at-home, working with a trained cognitive teacher.
Who is Arrowsmith School Online for?
Students who come to Arrowsmith School Online have been struggling in school – some are just starting their schooling but their experience has already shown a pattern of learning problems. Others have been finding school a challenge for years.
The Arrowsmith Program cognitive exercises offered at our school, strengthen fundamental aspects of learning such as attention, comprehension, working memory, communication, reasoning, numeracy, social-emotional intelligence, and wellbeing. The Program has been transformative for individuals with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, processing speed, attention difficulties, working memory, and executive function issues.
For an overview of the more common problems addressed please read our Chart of Learning Outcomes.
Our Approach is Personalized to the Learner – The Arrowsmith Assessment
Each new student undergoes an assessment online with our psychometrist to identify his or her learning profile
This profile is used to design the cognitive program necessary to improve identified weaknesses and strengthen these cognitive capacities.
Our goal is for our students to become effective, confident, and self-directed learners for life and to enable them to achieve their goals of academic and career success.
Virtual Learning – How it works
Our technology allows us to monitor student performance minute by minute and provides our teachers with the ability to provide real-time feedback, in our virtual learning environment.
This allows students to stay on task and build their mastery while working at-home on their cognitive exercises.
Tuition
The annual tuition fee for the 2020-2021 school year is $18,500 for a fulltime program offering four cognitive periods per day, five days per week. For Canadian residents tuition fees are not subject to the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) or Provincial Sales Tax.
Staff
Photo of Adriene Pratt – Head of School
The members of our staff bring a wealth of varied practical experience and academic training to their positions at Arrowsmith School. All the teachers in the cognitive program have successfully completed the Arrowsmith Program teacher training course and several of our staff are accredited members of the Ontario College of Teachers.
Head of School
Adriene Pratt
Director
Barbara Arrowsmith Young
Executive Director
Debbie Gilmore
Cognitive Teacher (Full Time):
Cognitive Teacher (Part Time):
School Psychometrist
Janice Jordan
Parent Liaison
Chrissy Bass-West
Financial Administration
Helen Fadakis
Director of Information Technology
Donald Young