A flexible learning environment
Milestones: Comprehensive Education Solutions, an enhanced program from the School District of Lancaster. Milestones offers personalized academic curricula, combined with therapeutic support, for students aged 5-21 (kindergarten through grade 12) who face social, emotional, educational, and behavioral challenges. Our dedicated team is committed to fostering a safe, supportive environment where continuous learning enables every child and young adult to thrive. Explore our holistic approach to special education.
Previously known as DASH, Milestones is a specialized program designed for students in the School District of Lancaster who benefit from an academic setting integrated with behavior support services. We collaborate closely with families, teachers, and special education consultants to develop a personalized plan tailored to each student’s needs. Our students come from any school within the School District of Lancaster based on their Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).
Mission and Vision
Our mission: Through a positive educational community, we promote emotionally safe, self-aware, and resilient students by providing continual individualized development of their social-emotional and academic goals in order to successfully transition to their next steps.
Our vision: Our vision for Milestones is to promote a growth mindset that develops confidence and emotional resilience.
Our vision is to promote a growth mindset that develops confidence and emotional resilience. Our team of skilled educators, clinicians, and therapists has worked with hundreds of students and their families, empowering them to achieve their goals. We support students with all disability categories, as well as behavioral and emotional challenges, with the ultimate aim of helping each student successfully transition back to their neighborhood school or achieve graduation.
Students in the Milestones program receive individualized, small group, and whole group instruction based on the Pennsylvania standards-aligned curriculum. Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is embedded in lesson plans, with teachers and robust staff providing guidance in natural environments.
Resources
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Scholastic Testing
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Schoology
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Clever
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Read 180/System44
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Working Papers
Working papers (working permits) are legal documents that give students the privilege of working in accordance with State child labor laws.
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College and Career Resources
Explore resources related to postgraduation pathways.
Principal's Message
Cory King / Milestones
Milestones is a diverse family of learners committed to the active engagement of every child. Our focus is that ALL learners grow academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally. We look forward to working collaboratively with the families of each student as well as their home school to support each student along their educational journey.
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale