STRIVE - School-within-a-School for At-Risk Students

Teacher Cindy Mitchell describes a school-within-a-school program which has reduced at-risk students' behavioral incidents by almost 90% and their failed classes by about 80%--while at the same time being fiscally responsible.

Mitchell works in the Hudson School District in Hudson, Wisconsin. She sat down for this interview at the Wisconsin Graduation Summit, March 2, 2010, where she gave a sectional presentation.

The Summit: http://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/gradsummit.html
The S.T.R.I.V.E. Program: http://hs.hudson.k12.wi.us/www/hs_hudson/site/hosting/STRIVE%20website%20orie...

Video produced by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• education
• innovation
• dropout
• prevention
• dropouts
• graduation
• rates
• turnaround
• reform
• schools
• at-risk
• wisconsin
• alternative
• intervention

[mikma]

I was in an school-within-a-school type program when I was in High School graduated 1977 loved every minuet of it. Some of our classes was at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University(A&T) On their farm(A&T) Now that I love home grown tomatoes and eat a lot of vegetables I think I really should of taken that class in farming/gardening ...MIKMA WAS HERE