Sierra School at San Bernardino City
Predicated on strong collaboration and communication between San Bernardino City Unified School District and our in-district staff, our district programs are designed to achieve their greatest potential. The academic, social emotional, and behavioral needs of each student are met through such means as a high student-to-staff ratio, individualization and small-group teaching approaches and comprehensive behavior management system. Our staff works in unison with district special education and general education teachers to ensure that our students receive the maximum benefits from both district resources and those of our programs.
Heidi Kutz, School Director
Iliana Gonzalez, BCBA
We serve students in both middle, high school, and transitional high school. Our classroom is a highly structured, therapeutic environment with a classroom-based behavior management level system to assess student needs and map out the best way to benefit them. Our staff provides a positive and welcoming environment to meet the social, emotional, and academic needs of each student.
Broad-Based Educational Services & Therapies (B.E.S.T.) Program
Serving students with significant autism and developmental disabilities, our model takes learned skills and practically applies them to the multiple environments in which a student would use those skills. Students spends portions of their day rotating through different modalities of instruction, the length and the frequency of each rotation is individuality designed for each learner and based on their current skills and future goals.
Each student enrolled in the model has individualized behavior programming which is driven by Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA). We aim to identify the behaviors that continue to disrupt our student’s ability to access their environment and learning. We then use the data collected from the FBA and classroom data to device strategies that get to the root function of the students disrupted behaviors.
Our Students
Students are referred by their school district to attend Sierra School and are generally in middle and high school. They face disabilities in a variety of areas, including Autism, Development Disability Intellectual Disability, Speech Language Impairment, Multiple Disabilities, Other Health Impairments, and more.
Our Staff
We are proud to employ certified special education teachers as well as a BCBA.
