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Thrive Night 2025

Updated: May 30

Thrive Night is the culmination of our Discover/Create/Thrive celebrations where students share what they’re learning with their families. At Thrive Night, students display posters they’ve made that reflect their growth in each class. The entire school community has a meal together and then families tour the posters, as well as the Science Fair. Following the tour, the drama class presents a play they’ve written and produced. (This year marked the 45th such production.)  Thrive Night is the first of several events leading up to Remembrance Day and the end of the school year. 


Radcliffe Creek School helps students thrive by understanding the many ways people learn and demonstrate knowledge. As the Cleveland Clinic notes in describing neurodivergence, “Like a person’s fingerprints, no two brains — not even those of identical twins — are exactly the same. Because of that, there’s no definition of ‘normal’ capabilities for the human brain.” Radcliffe teachers know their students’ strengths and use these as foundations for instruction. Strengths associated with neurodivergent thinking include:


  • Visual thinking, which can speed up the problem-solving process and also is linked to creativity.

  • The ability to view information from a broader perspective which is also associated with creativity.

  • The ability to generate a wide range of ideas.

  • A heightened sense of empathy and understanding.

  • A strong attention to detail and the ability to recognize patterns which is valuable in fields like data analysis and mathematics. 


By building on strengths, we help students experience success which in turn promotes resilience. Resilience can help neurodivergent thinkers face their challenges and thrive. As Dr. Srinivas Gada says in describing his work and his personal experience raising a neurodivergent child, “Resilience is not something you do alone, without help. It’s the opposite of that.”



 
 
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