Reminders
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 6 PM: PEP
Thursday, May 9: School Closed
GPA Students Attend Job Fair
Ten students from our school supported by staff recently attended the Rowan College at BCC Job Fair held at the Kennedy Center in Willingboro.
GPA’s Instructional Framework Recognized as Evidence-based
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) has included the comprehensive model of care used by Garfield Park Academy, the Teaching-Family Model (TFM), as a promising evidence-based practice.
GPA Professionals of the Year
ASAH, a not-for-profit organization comprised of private schools and agencies that provide highly specialized services to children with disabilities in New Jersey, has awarded two GPA staff members with the organization's Special Education Professionals of the Year Awards. Sheri Roseman, a GPA Art Therapist with twenty years of experience at our school, was named ASAH's [...]
Author Christine Leronimo to Visit GPA
West Jersey Reading Council will host an author visit at Garfield Park Academy on Thursday, February 16, 2017. Christine Ieronimo will speak about her book, A Thirst for Home - A Story of Water Across the World. A first-time author, Ieronimo draws on her personal experience traveling to Ethiopia to adopt her daughter, telling a [...]
SAVE THE DATE – JUNE 6, 2017
Our 2017 Eugene Morse Gala Dinner and Golf Outing has been scheduled! Save Tuesday, June 6, 2017 on you calendar for our most important fundraising event. Our Gala Committee is busy making plans for another terrific event. We hope to see you there!
Mosaics & Murals Tell Stories of Hope at GPA
Students at Garfield Park Academy in WIllingboro, NJ have been working with students at Garfield Park Academy, piecing together shards of broken glass and tile to tell stories of shared hope.
Wiggle Room Helps Make Learning Easier
For many students with ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism, excess physical energy can be distracting in the classroom. When the expectation is that students remain still and seated, sensory integration dysregulation issues can look like a behavioral problem. GPA has helped solve the problem with new sensory-friendly classrooms.
Momentum Transition Program Internship
Twice a week, Dan, who is on track for a June, 2017 graduation, dons his uniform to go to Meineke. There, he works under the supervision of another mechanic as an intern. A job coach from GPA attends with him, helping Dan adjust to new situations, and acting as a ‘go-between” to help him problem-solve and interpret work situations.
GPA’s TFA 2016 Agency Distinguished Practitioner of the Year
Garfield Park Academy Teacher Suzanne Sedarat has been awarded the Teaching-Family Association's Agency Distinguished Practitioner of the Year Award.
GPA’s Brittany Harmening Named West Jersey Reading Council President
On May 25, 2016, Brittany Harmening was installed as the new president elect for the West Jersey Reading Council. West Jersey Reading Council strives to promote literacy in Burlington and Camden counties through professional development, active membership, partnership with the International Literacy Association and the New Jersey Literacy Association, and dissemination of pertinent research and [...]