Glacier is fully committed to seeing that every student receives the academic support they need
to succeed. In a traditional comprehensive campus setting students receive daily instruction in a
classroom filled with their peers. In a personalized learning environment students receive daily
instruction, assessment, and remediation from a parent or a designated docent. Students who
come to Glacier come for a variety of reasons, but all benefit from personalized instruction,
assessment, and remediation on a daily basis. The reasons that students come to Glacier cannot
be ignored as irrelevant. Academic support must take into consideration what a student's needs
are, and the reasons they feel a program isn't working and another program might is important.
If a student comes to Glacier to increase their time to do well in all that they are involved in,
then the academic support they receive is inherent in the program format. If a student is not
achieving well in a classroom setting that is distracting to them, then the personalized approach
itself becomes the support for there academic program.
We know that the program format itself can benefit many students for a variety of reasons,
but academic support comes from many other sources as well. The primary source for
academic support comes from the personalized learning meetings that happen at least monthly
to discuss and plan each students academic program. This type of frequent and ongoing attention
seeks a student's best approach to their
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