PHILOSOPHY

What We Believe
Our school began in 1982 with the belief that all children can learn and that children learn most when they are taught the way they learn best. We still believe that today. Our tremendously supportive environment is hard to match. Read what we believe here.

Our Mission
Our mission is to provide a supportive, caring and individualized education to students with learning disabilities, autism, speech language impairments, and other disabilities like ADD/ADHD in grades one through twelve by assisting each child to attain academic and personal achievement and success commensurate with the child’s abilities. Personal achievement includes success in social, physical and vocational skills.

Our students are encouraged and challenged to stretch and reach beyond what they are doing. They compete with themselves, not with each other. And what our children do, they learn. Children are rewarded and praised for their achievements and encouraged to try again if they do not meet with success. At The Harbour School, children find acceptance for whom they are and they are taught to celebrate the differences in others as well. Teachers are sensitive to each child's social and emotional well being, as well as to academic needs. Discipline is incentive-based, encouraging cooperation and reinforcing positive behaviors.

The Harbour School is approved by the Maryland State Department of Education to receive funding from local boards of education in Maryland to provide special education programming as a nonpublic special education school. The Harbour School does not discriminate in its operations on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnic origin. Tuition paid to Innovative Learning, Inc. is tax deductible as a medical expense for those students diagnosed as learning disabled or having another disability requiring special education programming.

We invite you to come visit us and feel the “Harbour Magic.” There is always another dream stirring in the hearts and minds of the staff, parents and kids at our school. It will always be a place where children and their needs, for now and in the future, come first.