Supporting Students in Alternative Education Settings

Presenters

Sarah Feldman (Primary)

Senior Research Associate
WestEd

Cami Anderson (Primary)

Superintendent, Alternative High Schools and Programs
New York City Department of Education (District 79)

Lucretia Murphy (Primary)

Executive Director
See Forever Foundation

Description

As part of a series of WestEd-sponsored webinars related to education goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Sarah Feldman, Senior Research Associate in WestEd's Innovation Studies program, will moderate a presentation on supporting students facing significant obstacles to completing their high school diploma—parenthood, financial constraints, incarceration, immigration, drug addiction and/or previous school failure. Cami Anderson, Superintendent of Alternative High Schools and Programs for the New York City Department of Education (District 79), will present strategies on developing a teaching staff that can work effectively with such students; and Lucretia Murphy, Executive Director of the See Forever Foundation, will describe the program offered for adjudicated young men in the Maya Angelou Academy and the Transition Center.

Specifically, Cami Anderson will present on the recruiting, training and supporting of high quality teachers and the use of teaching standards and strategies for supporting students' social, emotional growth specifically tailored for working with an alternative population of students. Lucretia Murphy will describe the program offered for the young men in the Maya Angelou Academy and the Transition Center, focusing on the instructional practices, assessments, and supports the schools provide to improve educational outcomes while young men are in the school and help them transition into school when they return to the community.

Upcoming ARRA webinars on issues related to school dropouts will include, "What Happens to High School Dropouts Who Return to School?", and “Educating Overage and Undercredited Youth.” Please check SchoolsMovingUp soon for more information about these upcoming webinars. The archives from the past webinars in this ARRA series are available to view at any time and include:

• Reducing School Dropout Rates
• Early Head Start: Providing a Quality Comprehensive Program for Infants, Toddlers and Their Families:
  • Part I
    
  • Part II
• Making Progress on Essential Standards and Assessment Reforms
• Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools: Resources from Doing What Works
• Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
• Transforming Schools: Charter Schools as a Strategy for School Turnarounds

Small But Mighty: The Promise of Smaller Learning Communities For High School Redesign

Preparing Students for College: An Online Approach to Filling the Gaps in California High Schools

Rethinking High School: Five Profiles of Innovative Models for Student Success

Converting to Smaller Learning Communities

Inside High School Reform: Making the Changes That Matter