Special education services will be offered to Mount Calvary Lutheran School students beginning with the 2008-09 school year.  The school has entered a contract with Lutheran Special School & Education Services (LSSES) to provide services in a resource room.

LSSES provides resources and special education services and support to Lutheran school in the South Wisconsin District of LCMS. Mt. Calvary joins just three other schools in the District with resource rooms.

The resource room would not be possible without the new school addition. The addition has a new library/media center and the LSSES resource room will occupy the existing library on the second floor of the south wing.

“This will help our program tremendously because we will have a special education teacher on site as well as access to teacher consultation and other evaluative services offered by LSSES,” says Mt. Calvary Principal Carrie Miller.

The model used by LSSES has students going to the resource room for help in curricular areas including reading, language arts and math; but then mainstreams the student into the general classroom for remaining subjects.
Students enrolled in a resource room have been identified as having special learning needs based on test results, current performance, teacher and parent observation. Students receive individualized and small group instruction for specific remediation of their learning problems and usually spend about 40% of their day in the resource room.

Mt. Calvary will be able to serve 12 students in the resource room. The resource room should have an impact on school’s enrollment for next year and years to come because of the need for special education services. Also, it will help keep siblings enrolled together in the same school instead of splitting them because of lack of services. But most importantly, it will allow Mt. Calvary to reach a new population of students for Christ.