In today's episode, Jana visits Athena Academy. Jana shares her perspective about Athena Academy, a school in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in teaching students with dyslexia and twice exceptional learners who have strong visual spatial skills. The school takes a holistic approach to teaching with a focus on hands-on projects, small class sizes, and social-emotional learning. The teachers have a variety of backgrounds and experiences, and the school uses the Davis Method and structured word inquiry to teach reading and increase comprehension. The school is not a structured literacy program, and they focus on encouraging students to use their strengths and unique ways of seeing and experiencing the world. They have a process for enrollment and shadowing to ensure that students are a good fit for the environment.

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