The Wediko School at Windsor was founded in 1989 and is based on Wediko's therapeutic Summer Program, which has operated since 1934.  Five dormitories, a conference center, a special education school, activities buildings, ball fields, and an administrative building are situated on a wooded 450-acre lakeside campus.  Located in southern New Hampshire, just 2 hours north of Boston, the School offers boarding, day, and independent living programs for 50 boys between the ages of 8 and 20.  Wediko designs and implements comprehensive, individualized educational and therapeutic plans to facilitate students whose development has stalled.  Students who attend the School typically struggle with lagging self-control, inadequate social skills, and poor academic achievement.  Accordingly, hands-on, learner-centered curricular are used to engage the students, most of whom have idiosyncratic learning styles.  The School relies on a strength-based model to build students' competencies.  Wediko seeks to spark developmental growth by anchoring students in areas of strength and talent while maximizing skill acquisition.  Simultaneously, Wediko helps students identify. manage, and control personal barriers to success.  Small classes of 8 students are team taught by a special education teacher and an assistant with direct care support.  Curriculum subjects include language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, and fine arts.  Instruction is based on an individualized direct-instruction approach that focuses on incremental learning and perfect practice.  Other components of the Wediko School include experiential after-school programming, therapeutic horseback riding, social skills training, daily group meetings, individual therapy, comprehensive feedback systems, motivating incentive systems, and psychological evaluation and medication review when indicated.  Successful Wediko students make achievement gains, become purposeful problem solvers, and understand the value of reciprocity and negotiation.  Students leave Wediko having transformed their identities; instead of seeing themselves as failures, students know they can respond successfully to personal, academic, and social challenges.

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