Menlo-Atherton High School - Academic Resource

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Menlo-Atherton offers an amazing special education program that supports over 200 M-A students. Our team includes 12 highly qualified teachers, 19 instructional associates, our school psychologist, and our speech and language therapist.

We work collaboratively with each other, fellow general education teachers, and the administration to provide the most positive high school experience for our students.

Our Programs:
M-A has four special education programs. Each program is designed to support students and their particular needs.

Resource Specialist (RSP)
STARS - Therapeutic Resource Program
Independent Living Skills
Social Academic Class (SAC)

Academic Resource Teachers

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Name	Subjects	Classroom	Email
Basquez, Joel	Study Skills & Co-Teach US History	B-5, D-9	jbasquez@seq.org
Chavez, Carla	Study Skills & Co-Teach	S-9, E-6	cchavez@seq.org
Chavez, Luis	Study Skills	D-8	lchavez@seq.org
Cristerna, Art	Study Skills & S TARS English	D-8, H-4	acristerna@seq.org
Flores, Karina	Study Skills & Co-Teach	G-3	kflores@seq.org
Kirk, Scott	Co-Department Head, STARS	H-2	skirk@seq.org
Lorenzo, Valeria	Study Skills	G-3	vlorenzo@seq.org
Milia, Cary	Study Skills	D-7, B-4	cmilia@seq.org
Mohammed, Shaheen	Study Skills & Co-Teach English II	F-17,G-20	smohammed@seq.org
Molieri, Mike	STARS	H-1	mmolierie@seq.org
Nocedal, Elisa	Co-Department Head, Study Skills	E-3	enocedal@seq.org
Price, Susan	Independent Living Skills	E-25	sprice@seq.org
Rubin, Laurin	Study Skills	G-3, F-15	lrubin@seq.org
Soto, Alex	Study Skills & Co-Teach Algebra	D-9, D-17	asoto@seq.org
Soto, Christy	Independent Living Skills	E-26	csoto@seq.org
Stuart, Andrew	Study Skills, & Co-Teach Mod Euro History	D-7, G-11	astuart@seq.org
Taylor-Smith, Jennifer	Study Skills, Interim Math & Social Studies	C-13	jtaylorsmith@seq.org

Resource Specialist

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Resource Specialist (RSP)
The RSP program at M-A is designed to provide academic support to students with special needs, provide access to the general education curriculum, and focus on supporting individual student needs. There are a total of six RSP teachers and six instructional associates in the program.

STARS - Therapeutic Resource Program

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The Stars program at M.A. is designed to provide academic and social/emotional support for students with special needs. There are two teachers and five instructional associates that support the program.

Teacher

Scott Kirk

Mike Molieri

Independent Living Skills

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This program is designed to support students with more intensive special needs. The classes are designed to provide academic life skills to students with varying disabilities. All academic classes, along with driver’s education, and adaptive and modified P.E. are taught in this program. There are two teachers and five instructional associates.

Teacher
Susan Price

Christy Soto

Social Academic Class

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The SAC program is primarily designed to assist and support students with high functioning autism, Asperger’s Disorder, PDD-NOS, and other social pragmatic concerns. The program is intended to aid students in developing social pragmatic skills in both the public and private spheres. Students learn about the importance of how social skills, critical thinking skills, and independence skills can positively impact their lives throughout high school and beyond. There is one teacher and four Instructional Associates for the SAC program.

Teacher
Jenn Taylor Smith

Menlo-Atherton High School 555 Middlefield Road Atherton, CA 94027 650.322.5311

Academic Resource