The Instructional Program at the Palisades Learning Center is designed to meet the needs of each student so that he or she can fulfill his or her district's graduation requirements. The program exists in an environment that promotes dynamic changes in the essential cognitive functions required for success in school, on the job, and throughout life. In all that we teach, the concept of taking responsibility, sharing information, and assisting each other is central to the learning process.

The Goals of the Instructional Program are:

• To have each student master analytical, expressive, and conceptual skills needed to conduct higher-level learning
• To have each student learn the concepts, skills, strategies, and techniques, needed to function independently
• To have each student acquire the skills needed to evaluate different viewpoints and to establish his or her own opinions.

To achieve these goals, the Instructional Program is both semi and fully departmentalized so that each student can work in an environment that is academically and socially comfortable. The school complies with the New Jersey Core Curriculum requirements and offers courses in English, Math, History, and Science, as well as Physical and Health Education. This course work is supported and supplemented by the Related Arts program, which includes Art, Technology, Driver Education, Speech and Language Therapy, and Orton Gillingham Reading Remediation.

Student outcomes are mailed to the parent/guardian and school district every sixty days in a Progress Report and every forty-five days on a Report Card. An Interim Report is written mid-semester to inform the parent/guardian of any academic issues that need to be addressed.