Dublin City Schools believes all students can learn and succeed. We are committed to providing customized educational programs, which meet the needs of learners who can achieve greater success utilizing a non-traditional educational experience. Students are provided with a variety of educational options that can lead to graduation and are supported by services for the student and their immediate family that are essential to success.
West Bridge Academy is designed to provide unique educational opportunities for Dublin
City School’s students. The West Bridge Academy curriculum and structure are designed to create customized learning experiences that meet the individual needs of learners.
Our intervention efforts at West Bridge Academy are deliberate, unified, consistent, and evidence based. The entire staff facilitates student personal academic growth by supporting students as they earn credits through a rigorous on-line curriculum and by directly teaching students the foundations of emotional intelligence and resiliency.
An Individual Support Plan (ISP) will guide each student’s experience. Upon entrance, the student’s Student Success Team (SST) will develop a customized plan that will grow and expand as the student advances through the curriculum and explores post secondary options. In addition to meeting the academic needs of each student, an emphasis is placed on providing career development opportunities, service learning experiences, and a cognitive behavior therapy-based mental health component.
Students at West Bridge Academy are provided the opportunity to practice and demonstrate their new academic and social-emotional skills in the classroom, small group settings, and in one-on-one planning. It is our vision that students leave West
Bridge Academy not only meeting their individual academic goals, but also are better able to recognize their own strengths, control their own emotions, communicate well with others, and believe in the power of themselves, persisting even in the face of adversity.
Flexible scheduling of academic coursework:
* Small student-to-teacher ratios;
* On-site support services, including assessments by a mental health professional, mental health services, and career and post-secondary counseling;
* An emphasis on engaging parents in their child’s education;
* Strong collaboration among community organizations;
* Mentoring connections;
* Community citizenship
• Services to support return to the regular classroom.

The curriculum for West Bridge Academy is aligned with the State of Ohio's Academic
Content Standards. Teachers utilize a software curriculum support that can be individualized to meet a variety of student academic needs. Students can participate at their own pace and earn credits for successful completion of academic modules / courses:
* Other options would include individually customized independent study opportunities developed in conjunction with the student’s home school.
* Options may include partial participation at their home school for interest area classes.
SERVICE LEARNING
The purpose of the service-learning program is to provide the opportunity for students to engage in authentic learning experiences in settings outside of the traditional classroom in order to develop personal interests as well as nurture and practice individual skills and strengths. Students can then use these unique gifts and talents to make a positive impact on their own life and the lives of others.
By learning more about their own individual gifts and interests and by then using those skills to have a true impact on needs of the community around them, students develop necessary skills to be more successful both in school and in life.
WEST BRIDGE ACADEMY CAREER CLASS
In addition to the opportunity to earn work-study credit for successful employment, WBA students will have the opportunity to develop employment skills in a weekly career class.
Resume´ building, employment trends, mock interviews, and guest speakers will allow students to explore their career interests as well as strengthen their employability.
GREENHOUSE/GROW2SERVE
Students will have the opportunity to participate in the Grow2Serve Greenhouse or gardens located on the grounds of West Bridge Academy. In this class, students will spend their time working in groups as part of our horticulturally-based service learning program. Students can expect to participate in a wide variety of activities including: greenhouse maintenance, plant care, seed propagation, harvesting, food panty donations, young plant donations, community service, gardening, cooking with fresh produce, rain barrel construction, and so on. Students will be participating in hands-on, collaborative learning with the constantly evolving problem solving challenges that arise as a part of plant care. Local community organizations that benefit from our service include: The Dublin Food Pantry, Section 8 Housing, Assisted Living homes, district elementary schools, and community gardens.
Student placement must be recommended through the high school Student Success
Team (SST) process. The SST process is a mechanism for providing interventions and supports for students and is currently in place in all of the Dublin City School’s high schools. Initial questions and discussions regarding attendance at West Bridge
Academy can be directed towards school counselors and building administrators.