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Essential Components of an Effective Educational Program Overview
Simon Gonsoulin, NDTAC
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Overview
Essential Components • Rigorous and Relevant Curricula • Administrator and Teacher Quality • Methods, Tools, Materials Practices Aligned with
Standards—Personalize Learning Environment • Adequate Allocation of Funds, Inclusive of IDEA and 504 • Quality Assurance Processes • Navigable Transitions • Social and Behavioral Needs of Students • Safe and Healthy Facility-wide Climate
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Rigorous and Relevant Curricula
• Adopt and implement rigorous and relevant curricula to guide instruction and promote accreditation and approval of the juvenile justice school as an education entity by the SEA.
• Curriculum should be comparable to nonsystem- involved youth.
• Incorporate technology into the instructional effort and curriculum.
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Administrator and Teacher Quality
• Employ qualified staff who can positively affect academic, career, behavioral, emotional, and social outcomes for students.
• Develop and implement a professional development program that supports the mission of the agency and goals of the educational program.
• Promote and nurture staff who are committed to engaging and connecting with youth from the recruitment and interview process through day-to-day interaction.
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Personalized Learning Environment
• Employ instructional methods that engage students and are aligned with 21st-century standards.
• Provide instruction that is age appropriate and inclusive of prevocational and market-driven career or technical education.
• Provide specialized programming that addresses achievement gaps and credit-recovery programming.
• Participate in state accountability system
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Adequate Allocation of Funds
• Allocate adequate funding to support comparable educational opportunities for ALL youth, inclusive of youth with educational disabilities, when compared to their peers who are non-system involved.
• Fund postsecondary educational opportunities for youth who possess a high school diploma or GED.
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Quality Assurance
• Establish a strong quality assurance process that measures critical elements of educational programming.
• Identify and measure a set of outcomes associated with the educational well-being of youth who are confined.
• Establish a quality assurance process that directs both current and future delivery of services.
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Navigable Transitions
• Establish formal procedures and processes to ensure successful and readily navigable transitions across multiple systems.
• Ensure transitional efforts are supported by key personnel.
• Ensure an adequate transition coordinator/ advocate role is established to oversee these activities.
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Student Support Services
• Provide student support services that address the non-cognitive behavioral and social needs that promote educational success.
• Focus on family engagement and culturally relevant professional development
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Safe and Healthy Climate
• Fostering conditions for learning • Prioritize education in programming • Freedom from physical harm • Avoid harsh and exclusionary discipline
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