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Facebook Friday Weekly Recap! You didn't think we would miss this week, did you? Check out some of the great learning our students did this past week with our staff! We are so proud of all the ways our students have taught us to teach better. Many of our staff also got together on Wednesday for a few team pictures just to say hello to you all and show you who we are - special thanks to the amazing Tracy Smith for putting together the collage! Enjoy your break, and we will see you 4/12/21!

Today is an important day in our world - World Autism Awareness Day 2021. At ICD, we are in full support of our students realizing their most independent and best selves. We recognize that there are differing opinions in the world about various ways to recognize this important day, but all of those perspectives agree that awareness is the first step to any intelligent dialogue. We encourage our community to become better educated about neurodiversity and to move from awarene...ss toward acceptance and understanding. To learn more about this important day, please visit the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day site: https://www.un.org/en/observances/autism-day/background We celebrate our students’ unique contributions to the diverse community we live in every day, but today we want to take additional time to express our gratitude for the opportunity to work with each child and his/her/their family. There is no greater gift than to work with others who help you learn there are many ways to reach a goal and many ways to enjoy your way getting there. ICD Team = ICD Family #WorldAutismAwarenessDay #autismawareness #autismacceptance

ICD’s special education programs for preschool and school age, as well as early intervention, are closed 4/1-4/9 for spring break. Stay safe! Don’t worry- we will still post on Friday to share some fun!

Facebook Friday Weekly Recap! Oh the Spring weather! There was so much beautiful sunshine and time outside this week as well as lots of learning going on in the classrooms. What do you get when you cross literacy activities with our amazing families? A very successful ICD Story Hour week. Thank you to everyone who Zoomed with us! We will see you on Monday for a short week (3/29-3/31; closed for break 4/1-4/9). Have a super weekend!

Facebook Friday Weekly Recap! So much fun! We realize that the weather might have tricked us a little bit and threw in that bonus NY third winter, but that didn't stop our awesome learning as we stuck to indoor activities. Special thanks to our amazing staff this week who worked incredibly hard to keep our students focused and engaged when everyone was craving some warmer weather and trying to reset after Daylight Savings Time. Check out some fun photos from this week too see... what we were up to! Also, don't forget that next week starts up March Family Services. Our theme for March is ICD Story Hour and the focus will be on literacy skills. See our schedule below! Classroom 111 - 3/23/21 9:45-10:45 with Lindsey Peck Classroom 121- 3/23/21 10:15-11:15 with Simone Boyle Nowacki Classroom 132- 3/24/21 9:45-10:45 with Brittany Passariello Classroom 128- 3/24/21 10:45-11:45 with Amy Garrett Classroom 110 - 3/24/21 12:15-1:15 with Jamie Tredo Classroom 113- 3/25/21 9:45-10:45 with Valerie Waters Classroom 108- 3/25/21 9:45-10:45 with Jennifer Snover Classroom 129- 3/25/21 12:15-1:15 with Grace Lindsey Classroom 131- 3/26/21 9:45-10:45 with Cortney Crawford Classroom 134- 3/26/21 10:15-11:15 with Alisa O'Bine Have a great weekend and stay safe!