1. Centennial School of Lehigh University, located in Bethlehem, PA, pursues two principal missions:

1. Serving children and youth with educational disabilities
2. Preparing high quality teachers to enter the workforce of special education.

2.We are a special education day-school licensed to serve students, ages 6 through 21, classified under the Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA-04) as emotionally disturbed or autistic.

3. We serve local school districts and intermediate units in the Lehigh Valley and supplies educational services to approximately 100 students, and their families, every year.

4. Our funding is through the Pennsylvania Department of Education and we are governed by Lehigh University.

5. The operating budget for 2007-2008 was just over 3 million dollars.

6. For the past 10 years, 100% of those Centennial graduate students who have sought teaching positions in school districts have successfully acquired employment, mostly in Pennsylvania but some as far away as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, and Virginia.

7. We effectively work with students with emotional disabilities without the use of physical restraint and seclusionary time-out.

8. We utilize a team approach to working with students.

9. Over the past three years, the Centennial faculty has presented 42 papers at state, regional, and national and international professional conferences.

10. Over the past 8 years, Centennial has successfully acquired over $600,000 in grant funding.

11. We operates a Technical Assistance Program that offers an array of high quality consultative services to school districts, charter schools and private schools.

12. A recent publication by the National Disability Rights Network (School is Not Supposed to Hurt) included Centennial School as an example of Best Practices in education (p. 37).