Class Components/Credit
Recovery/Before/After School Programs
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Offer MVHS program
during the summer to students receiving free/reduced
lunches.
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Special Ed in the
building: Academic Assistance
class offering more time for assignments.
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Fast ForWord and Read
180 programs for targeted reading intervention in addition to
school-wide vocabulary instruction.
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After-school tutoring
program available 4 days a week for all students.
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Smaller class sizes
(when possible).
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Personal attention in
class and highly differentiated instruction by teachers who specialize
in at-risk education.
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Block scheduling.
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4 terms equals 8 credits possible in one school year. Students
can also earn extra credits by working and participating in
extracurricular opportunities.
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After
School Leadership Program on Tuesdays.
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Field trips, guest speakers and community resources used in the class to
offer a different way of learning.
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Free/Reduced breakfast/lunch program.
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Provide free daycare to students with children.
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Work individually with Seniors to help determine their post-high school
plans.
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Assist in financial aid planning and college admission process.
Partnering/Support with
Community Agencies
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Work with local
Probation Officers to keep students enrolled and attending school.
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Partner with Y.O.U.
to allow students the opportunity for credit recovery utilizing their
NovaNET program.
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Teen Age Parenting
Class: Representatives from Boys & Girls Club visit weekly for healthy
cooking ideas and other topics.
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Community Mental
Health,
Elizabeth
Upjohn
Healing
Center,
Advocacy Services For Kids offering crisis intervention, anger
management, substance abuse, conflict resolution and interpersonal
difficulties.
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Work with the staff
at KVCC's
Student
Success
Center, and work to
show to educate our students as to the opportunities available to
them programs that KVCC has to offer within this center that are much
like the "hand holding" we do here with our At-Risk students.