Center for
Academic Success

Our Philosophy

The Center for Academic Success at Admiral Farragut Academy is dedicated to providing an inclusive educational environment to guide all students into reaching their full potential. The Center works very closely with all families and students to ensure that students receive all of the resources, guidance, and skills that are necessary to achieve success in the classroom, and beyond.

Admiral Farragut Academy is home to students from all over the country and all over the world. It provides an outstanding and unique opportunity for all students to learn within the same educational setting. This promotes a global learning community for students on campus where students of all backgrounds, cultures, and learning styles can achieve greatness in the classroom, and well beyond into all aspects of everyday life. The Center for Academic Success provides research-based, best-practice strategies for students, teachers, and families to create the most successful educational environment that benefits all students.

All students benefit from using the center, including students who seek personal development in the areas of:

  • Organization
  • Time Management
  • Goal Setting and Attainment 
  • Self- Motivation
  • Study Skills
  • Test Preparation
  • Test Analysis
  • Acquisition of content material, and retention
  • Increased Reading and Writing efficiency
  • Increased Mathematics and Science efficiency

The Center for Academic Success is committed to providing all Farragut students the tools they need to achieve success.  Through the Center, all students have access to:

  • Research-based, differentiated material across all curriculums to fit all learning styles
  • Developing personalized study plans 
  • Academic check-ins 
  • Guidance for personal, and academic goal setting and attainment
  • Guidance with significant executive functioning skills in the areas of organization, time management, and self-motivation
  • Homework and classwork assistance
  • Specific classroom assistance across all content areas and curriculum
  • Family guidance of strategies
  • Approved Accommodations
  • Access to Assistive Technology such as speech-to-text, text-to-speech, technology for reading, and writing edits
  • Campus Engagement

The Center for Academic Success supports students with varying mild to moderate exceptionalities.

  • Academic Coaching Elective Course in Upper School
  • Academic Coaching- After School Programs
  • Writing intervention with a Specialist
  • Intensive Reading instruction with a Reading Specialist
  • Intensive Mathematics instruction with a Mathematics Specialist

  • The Reading and Mathematics Specialists use evidence-based reading, spelling, and mathematics programs to assist students having difficulty with any component of the reading and mathematics processes, from basic phonemic awareness to comprehension, synthesis, and analysis, and multisensory acquisition.

Our Team

Questions? Our team is here to help! Reach out to us anytime — we’re happy to answer your questions and guide you through everything Farragut has to offer.

Shane Houppert

Director of Academic Support
shouppert@farragut.org
(727) 384-5500 ext 252
Education:
Master of Science, Inclusive Special Education: Syracuse University
Bachelor of Science, Communication Disorders and Sciences: SUNY Plattsburgh 
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