Rainier Valley Leadership Academy

Morningside Academy serves the educational needs of students diagnosed with learning disabilities, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders. The academy focuses in the areas of language, facts, skills, concepts, principles, problem solving and organizational aspects. It also offers classes in literature, social studies and science. Morningside Academy provides a reading program that includes phonemic awareness through auditory blending and segmenting and alphabetic principle. It also offers sessions related to sound-symbol correspondence, textual blending, segmenting strategies and reading fluency. The academy writing program includes various descriptive, narrative, explanatory and persuasive writing classes. Morningside Academy also offers a summer school program that provides morning and afternoon programs in reading, language, writing and mathematics. The academy is located in Seattle.