Bridges Academy: Educating the twice-exceptional
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                           Imagine, Persevere, Achieve                

    The Bridges Icons


Our school motto tells it all. It was created and adopted by the 2010 student body after school wide discussions about
who they are as students and who we are as a school culture.


Our programs seeks to develop  imagination, perseverance and achievement through self-efficacy and engagement in personally relevant, meaningful work, explicitly linked to possible college and career paths. The iconic persons pictured on this page are used in our communications with students and the public to promote a profound awareness of the extraordinary potential of 2e students.  These great minds are successful writers, musicians, scientists, artists, and leaders whose own combination of gifts and challenges render them twice-exceptional by today's criterion.  

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JANE AUSTEN
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that she was a literary genius (one exception) and was thought to be challenged with Asperger’s Syndrome
(the other exception).

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CHARLES DARWIN
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional. He was a scientific genius and was thought to be challenged with OCD and stutter .

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that he was a political genius (one exception) and was thought to be challenged with Anxiety Disorder.

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MOZART
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that he was a musical genius and was thought to be challenged with Tourette Syndrome and OCD.

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​MICHELANGELO
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that he was a genius of art and architecture and was thought to be challenged with OCD.

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​MARIE CURIE
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that she was a chemistry genius (one exception) and was thought to be challenged with Asperger’s Syndrome (the other exception).

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that he was a literary and oratorical genius and was thought to be challenged with ADD/ADHD.

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​BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that he was a scientific, political, and literary genius and was thought to be challenged with ADD/ADHD.

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ISAAC NEWTON
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that he was a mathematical and scientific genius and was thought to  be challenged with Asperger’s Syndrome.

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LEONARDO DA VINCI
Is believed to have been twice-exceptional, referring to the fact that he was a genius of art, architecture, math, engineering, anatomy, and geology and was thought to be challenged with Asperger’s Syndrome and Dyslexia. 

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