The Imago Dei School at Trinity
| Trinity Classical Academy, Santa Clarita’s Classical, Christian, college preparatory academy, is proud to announce the addition of a brand new school under our banner - The Imago Dei School at Trinity. Imago Dei is the Latin term for ‘Image of God”. This new school will reside on our campus and will employ a very specialized faculty and approach to educate students with developmental disabilities.
Since our founding in 2001, Trinity has been dedicated to providing all students with a challenging, high-
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Megan Howell, the new Director of the
Imago Dei School, with the school's first student, Beau Howell.
| quality education, but we have also been committed to teaching students with learning disabilities. By utilizing a range of cutting-edge programs, intense individualized educational therapy and mediated learning strategies |
from NILD (the National Institute for Learning Disabilities), Trinity’s Supplemental Services faculty has been extremely successful at helping students with learning difficulties achieve, and in many cases well surpass, grade level proficiency. Rather than trying to compensate for a learning disability, where students work around their area of deficit, Trinity’s direct education intervention helps students strengthen their areas of deficit so they are no longer handicapped by them.
After experiencing so much success with Supplemental Services, we asked ourselves how God might use us to reach even more children who have even greater challenges with learning. The Imago Dei School at Trinity will draw on all of Trinity’s administrative and education expertise to provide a unique learning environment for students with diagnosed Developmental Disabilities. We will initially be accepting students in grades 5th thru 8th and add a grade level every year until those students reach high school graduation.
“I am thrilled to be overseeing the launch of the Imago Dei School at Trinity,” says Megan Howell, the Director of the Imago Dei School at Trinity. “After seeing the Lord bless Trinity with such incredible growth in just 10 years and reaching so many struggling students through our educational therapy program, I feel that the Imago Dei School at Trinity is poised to become an incredible school for students with developmental disabilities. For years, our valley has been longing for a school that will comprehensively address the individual needs of these students with special needs.”
Students in the Imago Dei School will engage in a regular classroom setting with only eight students on the Trinity campus with two dedicated teachers in a very specialized environment. They will become an integral part of the loving, supportive Trinity family which will this fall number over 370 students in K-12 and over 75 faculty and staff.
For more information on the Imago Dei School at Trinity, contact Megan Howell at Trinity Classical Academy at (661) 296-2601.
