Bellcate Students Rocking College Courses

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Bellcate is very proud that we have four current students who have just completed spring courses through the Community College of Vermont (CCV). These students are taking advantage of the State of Vermont Dual Enrollment program where high school juniors and seniors can take up to two college courses for free to earn college credit while still attending high school. Bellcate student Callie completed an Introduction to Early Childhood Education class, Ralf completed English Composition, Thor completed a C/C++ Computer Programing Class, and Jackson completed an Introduction to the Adobe Creative Cloud Digital Art Class. All four of these students enrolled for these spring courses through CCV prior to our shift to Bellcate Remote. And they all did an amazing job continuing their CCV course work through the transition to Bellcate Remote. Callie, Ralf, Thor, and Jackson did incredible work and successfully completed CCV courses earning college credit this semester. Great job guys!!!!

Some Photos and Work Product from Their Adventure in Dual Enrollment

Jackson at CCV
Jackson’s Work for Class
Jackson’s Work for Class
Callie Working Hard!
Homework Time for Callie and Jackson
Ralf and Callie Completing their Courses

Bellcate School utilizes a three-stage personal development model that draws on a number of effective theories and strategies. This is not a fixed system, but rather a way of understanding change within a context. Bellcate School understands growth and change to be a slow and challenging process for anyone.
Read more about our three-stage personal development model

The primary focus of the exploration stage is to build a strong therapeutic relationship as a foundation to facilitate and support growth and change. We use nonjudgmental acceptance and communicate empathy, respect, and genuine care so students can come to accept themselves and unblock their own natural potential.

Students are often ready to move into the Understanding Stage when they have developed strong, trusting, and safe therapeutic relationships with staff. The goal of this stage is to support students in constructing new insight and understanding. Staff assist students in determining their own role in their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Thoughts and behaviors are learned according to learning principles and thus can be changed using the same learning principles. In the Action Stage, staff assist students in making decisions that benefit themselves. Staff refer to the stages of change model as a resource to further understand where the student is in the change process.