Welcome to The Hirsch Academy The school began with one child.
One child who longed for successful connections with peers and
adults. One child who needed academic and therapeutic support.
One child who needed understanding. All Children Want to Belong
At Hirsch, we know that all children want to belong, they want
to be accepted and to have friends. We also know that every
child wants to learn and can learn. What we want to know is why
a child isn’t learning. So we find out. Then we do the most
important thing—-support the student right now. We meet the
child, where they are. We know that they want to succeed but
that something is in the way. We Ask Why All of the students at
Hirsch struggle with regulation whether it is sensory or social-
emotional in nature. Yet instead of simply responding to
behavior, we ask why. Why is this child having a hard time? What
are the obstacles? When a student begins at Hirsch, time and
great care is given to understand why the child is having such
difficulty. We discover what