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When we set out to create Cajal Academy, we soon discovered that more than just a ‘tweak’ was needed to align the traditional educational system with all scientists now know about the human brain, its connections to the body, and how children learn and experience the world. That’s why we are founded as a non-profit organization with a dual mission: to develop new educational models, and apply them in a flagship school.

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Posts tagged Individualized Instruction

Doesn't Everyone Deserve a School?

Federal education law provides for a spectrum of educational offerings—but what happens where “there is no school” for your child’s needs?

Our StoryCajal AcademyJanuary 12, 2020Individualized Instruction, Therapeutic Programming

Math Without Numbers, or Words: A Case Study of Individualized Learning

Find out how data-driven, individualized instruction helped changed one child's relationship to math from "I just can't" to "wow I'm good" when his teachers removed all the language and digits that were getting in the way--and then used OT strategies to built up those capacities, through neuroplasticity.

Case Studies, Academics, PedagogyCajal AcademyAugust 8, 2019Math, Body-Informed Learning, Individualized Instruction, Innovations

How One Child's Unique Needs is Leading to a New Educational Model for All

Cajal Academy’s innovative and highly-individualized new educational model for empowering all children to optimize their own learning, social and emotional outcomes was born from one boy’s very unique needs, and his family’s journey with the connective tissue disorder that drives them.

Our Story, AdmissionsCajal AcademyJune 9, 2019Health, Body-Informed Learning, Individualized Instruction, Therapeutic Programming, Ehlers-Danlos, Innovations