Welcome to Skills Academy

Skills Academy is a temporary placement to achieve outcomes that: increase students' social and social/emotional skills in a smaller, more structured environment, with an expectation the student will proceed to larger less structured environments when goals are met; increase productivity and educational achievement to expectations in less restrictive environments; result in all students demonstrating class expectations for responsible, respectful, safe, cooperative and productive behaviors; a structured and supported model with opportunities for inclusion, in less restrictive classrooms, when students progress monitoring data demonstrates readiness; ongoing, data analysis with home/school communication on a daily/weeky basis.

Kristina Hirschman, Skills Academy Director

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Open Invitation to 'Impact and Insight for GIPS' Community Conversation - May 4th

** UPDATE 4/29/2022 ** In support of the growing interest in this event, we have added an evening slot in addition to the afternoon gathering. This will hopefully allow us to accommodate the growing…
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GIPS to Move Back to Masks Recommended and 5-Day Class Weeks Feb. 21

By being flexible and working together we have seen improved medical/illness related absentee rates within our buildings. In that light, we wanted to share an important update: Effective Monday, February…
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Grand Island Public Schools Launches a Temporary 4-Day Class Week Initiative

Due to an all-time high in medical/illness related absentee rates and ensuring optimal operations for staff, we are providing an important update: Effective this Friday, January 21, 2022, GIPS will be…
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