Bridges Academy is a college prep school (grades 4-12) serving twice-exceptional (or 2e) learners—students are who gifted and highly gifted but who also have learning differences such as AD/HD, executive functioning challenges, processing deficits, mild dyslexia, perfectionism, and anxiety. Supposedly, the students are outside-the-box thinkers driven by creativity and intellectual curiosity. The Bridges educational model is strength-based and talent-development driven. Each student has an individual learning plan created to meet his/her diverse learning style, academic, creative and social/emotional needs. Stimulating core classes, abundant enrichment, small class size, extensive academic supports and a vital advisory and mentoring program are all part of the Bridges approach. The school i