Education center school

History

As the parent of a child with a learning disability, Martha Kabbes Burns - founder of Education Center School and a former teacher, gradually became aware of the need for a special kind of education for certain exceptional students. At home, she soon found herself teaching a small group of children with various learning disabilities and differences.

It was during this time that the idea for Education Center School came to her. After several years of working with children in her home, Mrs. Burns leased a small building in northeast Jackson and began to enroll more students and hire additional teachers. The year 1964 marks the formal beginning of Education Center School.

Continued growth made it possible to construct the present location at 4080 Old Canton Road, Jackson, MS 39216. Mrs. Burns' sister, Lynn Macon, has been the school principal since 1971. The sisters worked closely together and were a team in creating the individualization concepts implemented for the exceptional child, in a non-traditional school setting. After the tragic death of Mrs. Kabbes Burns in July 2002, Lynn Macon continues the traditions of the school as administrator and principal.

Today, Education Center School is accredited on a twelve month basis by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and Southern Association of Independent Schools.

Campus

The campus facilities are designed to create a favorable learning environment and for the needs and security of the student. The offices and classrooms are attractive, comfortable and efficient. Curriculum and materials are selected to meet the specific reading needs and requirements of exceptional children.

Philosophy

OUR MISSION: Education Center School provides a structured and personalized instructional program for the exceptional student. By helping the students function at their highest levels of achievement and working through their strengths while correcting their deficiencies, we are able to encourage emotional well-being, and promote the development of character, citizenship and universal values.

As professional educators and staff members, we believe that Education Center School has a major role in the community to develop students who will become productive members of society. It is our intention to provide a special, personalized instruction program for the exceptional student. Special attention is given to an individualized curriculum and small classes for each student.

Included in our school principles and concepts is the idea that we are helping the child develop maximum potential by working through his / her strengths while correcting his / her deficiencies.

Because the system of educating children is changing and the focus is on the process of learning, how to learn, and how to decide what to learn, we have become involved in the process of humanizing learning. By encouraging the students to live fully for today, we are preparing them for living tomorrow.

Our students are taught techniques of study skills, to think, to listen, to organize, to become independent, and to seek career objectives. The importance of emotional health is realized in this type of program, and attention is given to adjustment and personal growth through individual counseling.

Our greatest expectations are for students who previously experienced long-standing school failures and frustrations to be able to function at maximum levels our learning environment replaces failure with success, and unworthiness and doubt with personal worth and security.

ee also

*List of private schools in Mississippi

References

* [http://www.educationcenterschool.com/ Education Center School Homepage]