Our Classrooms

Classroom 112 - Middle School Life Skills
Teacher: Maren Pearson
Assistants: Betzabe Gutierrez, Lucia Hernandez, Manuel Lavalle, Maria Regnard

Classroom 124 - High School MIP-A
Teacher: Caitlin Davies
Assistants: Adrienne Day, Alexis Masso, Gloria Newlin

Classroom 125 - Middle School MIP-A
Teacher: Ann Vincent
Assistants: Veronica Barker-Barzel, Beth Newlin, Michelle Portrey

Family and Consumer Science
Deborah Powell and Isabel Castellanos teach Family and Consumer Science. Students learn in a classroom laboratory and on weekly community trips.

Fine Arts
Dawn Kyser is the Fine Arts Teacher at Stratford where a wide variety of musical, dramatic and visual arts is explored and experienced.

Physical Education
Leah Jaremenko teaches Physical Education. Physical education at the Stratford Program emphasizes the importance of providing students with disabilities the same advantages as non-disability students. Activities are designed for students specifically with their disability in mind. Among the skills worked on are: movement, range of motion, fitness, ball skills, riding tricycles, outdoor walks, swimming, and indoor treadmills.

Multisensory Room
Teacher: Eileen O'Casey, Occupational Therapist
This room is equipped with specialized sensory technology that will be used to assist students whose sensory needs are complex and cannot be met with equipment and materials available in their special education classroom.

ESOL
Teacher: Mona Mitry

Speech and Language
Teacher: Rachael Smolen

Library
Teacher: Jenny Shanker
Stratford students have been introduced to literature in all its forms. Stories are shared either by oral reading, video, computer programs, books on tape, etc. Each story presentation, in the various formats, are discussed fora wider range of student understanding and a better ability to relate.