FALL 2017
Paths to Diploma
At Cotting School, students and staff are consistently working towards our mission: to achieve the highest learning potential and level of independence. This includes setting goals, and with support, achieving them.  For some of our older students, receiving a high school diploma is a meaningful goal. As a high school diploma-granting institution, Cotting is able to make this possible. With student perseverance and staff effort, a portion of each graduating class walks away with a high school diploma. 87% of our students over the past five years who chose to pursue a high school diploma received one.

Click here to read more about our students' different paths to diploma, and here to read about Cotting alumnus Nick's experience completing his Competency Determination Portfolio!
Cotting Launches New Capstone Program
Cotting School launched the Capstone program this year to better meet the needs of our oldest students, ages 18-22. The flexibility of this culminating program is designed to suit these students as they progress closer to graduation and prepare to transition to life beyond Cotting. Capstone students are offered a greater diversity of vocational and transitional opportunities plus access to other programming opportunities that are better aligned with their goals and interests. In addition to regular Upper School programming, this may include:

•      Project Bridges community work experience twice a week
•      Job development in their home community
•      Inclusive college experiences
•      Vocational electives
•      Full year of Transition Elective
•      Half year of World of Work
•      Science once per week

For more on our academic offerings, www.cotting.org/programs.
Cotting Welcomes Dr. Holly Hodges!
We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Holly Hodges as our newest Cotting Medical Fellow! Dr. Hodges is a developmental-behavioral pediatrics fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and former pediatric chief resident at BCH. She received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 2012, and has spent her Postdoctoral training at BCH and Boston Medical Center ever since. She has a clinical and research interest in Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders, and is especially interested in understanding the breadth and use of new techniques in human genetics. We look forward to seeing Dr. Hodges, and our staff pediatrician, Dr. Elizabeth Harstad, throughout the school this year!
Cotting Basketball 2017/18 Season
December 1 v. Alumni 6:00-9:00 p.m.
December 22 v. Staff 9:30-11:30 a.m.
January 5 v. Nobles 6:00-9:00 p.m.
January 12 v. LABB 6:00-9:00 p.m.
January 19 v. Concord 6:00-9:00 p.m.
January 26 v. Newton 6:00-9:00 p.m.
February 16 v. Staff 1:00-2:45 p.m.
March 2 v. Alumni 6:00-9:00 p.m.
March 10 v. Tournament 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
1st Basketball Game: Cotting v. Alumni!
Friday, December 1, 2017
Gather with your fellow Cotting Alumni at 6pm for pizza prior to the Alumni v. Cotting Falcons game at 7pm!
To RSVP please email Paul Chiozzi at pchiozzi@cotting.org