SPECIAL SCHOOLS
Northshore Education Consortium, founded in 1974, was one of the first regional educational collaboratives in Massachusetts. The Consortium was established to bring together resources from member school districts to develop and deliver educational programs and services for students with educational, developmental and emotional/behavioral challenges.

Today, the Consortium serves more than 300 students from 15 member school districts and 25 other districts throughout Northeastern Massachusetts. Member districts include Beverly, Danvers, Gloucester, Hamilton-Wenham Regional, Lynn, Marblehead, Masconoment Regional, Nahant, North Reading, Peabody, Reading, Rockport, Salem, Swampscott and Tri-Town Elementary Union.

Knowledge and expertise

The Consortium staff is comprised of nearly 220 professionals, paraprofessionals and others offering knowledge and expertise in a wide range of educational and thera-peutic specialty areas. Staff members are specialists with experience and advanced training in speech and language pathology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, social work, psychology, home training, behavioral therapies, nursing and other medical specialties.

The staff offers unparalleled depth of commitment, understanding and stability. Relationships between staff members and individual students and their families often extend for years, even decades.

Quality and success

The Consortium provides high quality and effective programs and services at reasonable cost to school districts. Programs and services focus on helping students achieve maximum individual success. They build self-esteem, confidence and a sense of accomplishment.

Individual Education Plans are created, implemented and modified based on open and frequent communication and evaluation among Consortium staff, parents, and school districts. Northshore Education Consortium is at the forefront of new educational models and advances in adaptive technology, which assist students with their communications and physical needs.