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Greenwood School is a boarding school in Southern Vermont dedicated to taking bright and talented boys with learning differences and learning disabilities (LD) such as dyslexia, attentional difficulties (ADD / ADHD), or executive functioning deficits and empowering them with the skills and strategies necessary to bridge the gap between their outstanding promise and present abilities.

With a student: teacher ratio of better than 2:1, the Greenwood School is a boarding and day school for grades 6 through 12 that offers a comprehensive, individualized remedial program, balanced with an emphasis on enrichment programs designed to awaken students’ hidden talents. The result is a school that transforms lives by providing the best environment possible for students with specific learning challenges to realize their academic, social, and creative potentials.

A comprehensive academic program for middle and high school students — including science, history, art, literature, music, and athletics — ensures our students are intellectually challenged, creatively inspired, and factually informed. Our committed and highly skilled faculty (77% have advanced degrees) teach each student in the way he learns best, often for the first time in the student’s life.

Despite their learning challenges, our students are highly intelligent and have significant talents in the arts, in woodworking, and in athletics. Navigating through our website is an excellent way to learn about our students, our research-based remedial programs, and our vibrant community.

Founded in 1978, the Greenwood School is a boarding and day school for boys in grades 6 through 12.  For over thirty years Greenwood has empowered bright and talented boys who face dyslexia, related language-based learning differences, ADHD, and executive function deficits with the skills necessary to bridge the gap between their outstanding promise and present abilities. 

The Greenwood School has limited space and is now accepting applications for Fall 2013, grades 6th-12th. For more information, please contact us.

 

Greenwood News

Ken Burns To Produce Greenwood School Documentary

Ken Burns with Greenwood student

Ken Burns and Gold Medal winner, Ethan

The Greenwood School (a middle and high school boarding school for boys with language based and attentional learning differences) in Putney, Vermont (www.greenwood.org) is proud to partner with award-winning director and producer Ken Burns to produce The Address—a Ken Burns feature length documentary focusing on Greenwood students’ challenges and triumphs in studying, memorizing, and publicly reciting The Gettysburg Address. An integrated study of The Gettysburg Address is a Greenwood tradition. Since the school’s founding in 1978, Greenwood students have memorized and recited The Address in front of their peers and families. It is a test of courage and resilience, and at Greenwood it is an inspirational rite of passage. Ken and his Florentine Films team have been “embedded” in the Greenwood community since Thanksgiving and have documented over 200 hours of Greenwood students’ trials and successes. On February 15, the students recited The Address to an audience numbering 250; it was a triumphant and magical celebration and a moving testament to our students’ perseverance, bravery, and dedication.

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Ken Burns Documents Greenwood School Trip To Gettysburg

Ken Burns GettysburgKen Burns and his film crew were along as Greenwood School students embarked on a school trip to Gettysburg Military Park in Gettysburg, PA.  The trip was covered in a recent USAToday story:

The Address, parts of which he filmed Thursday at the Gettysburg National Military Park, is about a Vermont school for boys with learning disabilities who memorize and recite Abraham Lincoln’s iconic Gettysburg Address, which he gave 150 years ago this November.

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