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Admissions and Enrollment
OPEN ENROLLMENT!!

NEW PROGAMS!

These new programs are designed especially to meet the special educational, emotional and physiological needs of Gifted children and youth for stimulating and advanced education and social opportunities. Loosely constructed around general age groupings but allowing for flexibility and organic flow, the groups are: Junior Grade:  ages 4.5.6 And Teen, ages 13,14,15,16,17
How to Enroll at Baywood Learning Center
  •  Provide the results of a Qualitative Assessment or IQ testing. Submit application along with a letter stating why you believe your child needs a gifted education program and which features of the Baywood Learning center program you believe would serve the specific needs of your child (i.E small class size, child directed learning style, social/emotional support, academic advancement, etc.). Include copies of any evaluations or psychological testing.
  • Pay deposit or full tuition and sign enrollment agreement
If you wish to enroll your child in Baywood Learning Center you can use our new enrollment form online and pay with Paypal by clicking on the link "Online Application" link. The processing fee for the application is $75, application fees are not refundable, but may be deducted from your enrollment fee.

Announcing:Junior Grade!
for 4,5 and 6 year olds
Schedule:
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9am to 12:30pm

What is the Junior Grade? Junior grade is a special grade for gifted and precocious children ages 4,5,6  for whom placement in a regular Kindergarten may result in a traumatic or stressful learning experience due to the following risk factors:
     1. the child already reads

      2. the child is emotionally sensitive

      3 the child is cognitavely advanced and would not have a social peer group
      4 the child would not do well in a large class setting due to overexcitabilities as related to their gifted characteristics. 

At Baywood Learning Center Junior Grade students may work at any grade level in accordance with their ability regardless of the number of grade skips involved. Even though they may advance to several grade levels ahead academically, they'll get to stay in their appropriate peer group. By allowing the students to advance at a pace that is comfortable and safe, the student is not put into the stressful situation of feeling as though they need to hide their abilities. this is especially important for gifted girls, who are more suseptable to the social pressure to "fit  in", and frequently start to hide their gifts, tragically, this can result in permanent loss in educational potential.

If you have any questions about the enrollment process or Baywood Learning Center please email Grace Neufeld at:grace@baywoodlearningcwenter.org
Enrollment to Baywood Learning Center is open to any child regardless of race, gender, culture or religion. Children are placed based on their potential to benefit from our unique and specialized program.

We serve grades K-12. Our school is very small with about 20 to 30 students. Therefore, students are carefully selected to include children that share similar interests and to maximize opportunities for positive social interaction.

Baywood Learning Center specializes in serving the educational and emotional needs of gifted students regardless of previous academic performance. We can accommodate some moderate learning disabilities on a case by case basis.

What Kind of Student Thrives at BLC?
The BLC model is designed for the kind of child who exibits the following traits:

Ability to hyper-focus in areas of interest
Demands indepth educational content
Can be self directed at least some of the time
Values automony
Needs choices and a voice in what they will do
Is advanced above grade level in at least one subject

Our staff is trained to work with these gifted students and understands their intensities, passions, sensitivities and the need for additional transition time.

Students who do not succeed in the BLC program are those needing more structure and who get overwhelmed by choices. If you are not sure how your child might respond to our program you may wish to schedule a day for your child to participate in our program.

New!
Gifted Teen Program
for ages 13-17
SCHEDULE:
Mondays 1pm to 6pm
 Tuesdays 1pm to 6pm
Wednesdays 1pm to 6pm
Thursdays 1pm to 6pm
Fridays 1pm to 6pm

some Features include:
Early High School Graduation
con-current College classes

This program is especially designed for highly gifted and profoundly gifted teens to support their needs for social opportunities, and deep, rich, learning experiences in
    *Biology,
     *Astronomy 
     *All levels of Math
     * Physics
     *Philosophy
      *History
      *Video production 
      *Community service.
      *Entreprenuership
       *Independent Projects

It is a biological fact that teens function better later in the day click here for more info on this fact: 

teens and sleep 

Also teens need 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep every night. Because of their unique biological needs teens stay up later and sleep in later. Our teen program schedule reflects this need and in so doing, provides an opportunity for teens to focus on educational goals during their peak learning time.