Gaynor News Feed

Students, faculty, and staff alike have had a blast participating in Spirit Week.

A speaker from the non-profit organization Rachel’s Challenge visited Gaynor to spread a message about the importance of kindness in three special assemblies for students and parents.

Alexis McGill Johnson, Partner, Co-Founder, and Executive Director of Perception Institute spoke to parents in a talk titled, “Belonging for All: Talking About Race with our Kids,” sponsored by the Parents’ Association.

The Orange Cluster celebrated Lunar New Year by learning about the festivities and participating in traditions including making lanterns, red envelopes, and eating dumplings.

Students put executive functioning concepts into action in an escape room activity, using organization, planning, and communicating to “escape” before time ran out.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, teachers have been incorporating lessons into their classes that focus on the civil rights icon and his teachings in various immersive ways in the EC, Lower Division, and Upper Division.

What does it mean for students to be infinitely exceptional? How do we, as Gaynor educators, employ a strength-based approach in order to best teach our students who demonstrate exceptionally unique and beautiful learning differences?

A Gaynor speech-language pathologist found a creative way to help students practice and improve upon their inference skills by setting up a “crime scene” where students could find and interpret clues.

Director of Lower Division Donna Logue explains how a term like “diagnostic-prescriptive teaching,” which seems like an unusually clinical term for a school that prides itself on providing a nurturing, child-focused educational environment, accurately conveys how Gaynor creates individualized programs for each of our students.

Gaynor’s annual Winter Concerts are always filled with smiles and beautiful singing but this year, something was a little different; students took to the stage in the new Performing Arts Center.