A New Model For Education: Benefits Of Sober High Schools.
Devon Green, Director of Education at NewPort Academy, explained to L.A. Talk Radio host Lon Woodbury and co-host Liz McGhee how Sober High Schools, a model for education, actually works in the real world. Host Lon Woodbury is an Educational Consultant while co-host Liz McGhee is an admissions director for Sandhill Child Development Center in New Mexico.
Biography Devon Green
Devon Green is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Westchester, CA. She received a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies in 2004. She also got a A California Multiple Topic Teaching Credential from Loyola. As an instructor, her objective is to motivate her pupils. She wants them to acknowledge their toughness, set targets for themselves, and actively pursue reaching their desired end results. She had a problem with eating disorders throughout her teenage years. But after getting inpatient care in 2001, she has experienced complete healing. Her experience with combating an eating disorder has given her with the understanding necessary to help others overcome personal issues with drug addiction.
Can Sober High Schools Be A Revolutionary New Design for Education and Learning?
Devon explained how Sober High Schools can be a model for education because they are different from traditional high schools in a number of ways. For one thing, the children have made a commitment to be sober, including being willing to take drug tests. However, a Sober High School is not another version of a residential therapeutic school. So, although it is organized like a regular high school, it has a number of other elements to help all aspects of a child's life, including therapy, life skills training, and nutrition classes.
Generally, students who come here arrive from some sort of counseling program related to substance abuse, psychological disorders, and addictive behaviors. The school's focus is on all types of recovery, instead of simply sobriety from alcoholic beverages.
Devon also outlined the various considerations that went into creating this new education model. Sober High School has a day program while Newport Academy supplies a residential living program. The institution in Connecticut pioneered this new education model. It made a program that dramatically differs from those offered by all other recovery-oriented schools in the state of Connecticut. Now the Orange County academic program is modeling the one set up in Connecticut. Currently, this blend between a regular school and a therapeutic school is only suited for private schools due to substantial budget cuts in all public education programs. As an academic establishment, Sober High School is not approved in its own right, but it has collaborated with an accredited school. Sober high school recruits credentialed instructors with high school teaching and licensed specialists who have experience working in drug abuse programs.
Devon also commented on diverse other topics, including drug abuse fads, behavior administration, managing day pupils, managing instances of relapse, and managing learning disorders.
Final Thoughts
Toward the close of the interview, Devon discussed how Sober High Schools is a model for education for all type of schools, pointing out how both academic excellence and emotional well-being is important for all students regardless of the type of school they attend.
Biography Devon Green
Devon Green is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Westchester, CA. She received a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies in 2004. She also got a A California Multiple Topic Teaching Credential from Loyola. As an instructor, her objective is to motivate her pupils. She wants them to acknowledge their toughness, set targets for themselves, and actively pursue reaching their desired end results. She had a problem with eating disorders throughout her teenage years. But after getting inpatient care in 2001, she has experienced complete healing. Her experience with combating an eating disorder has given her with the understanding necessary to help others overcome personal issues with drug addiction.
Can Sober High Schools Be A Revolutionary New Design for Education and Learning?
Devon explained how Sober High Schools can be a model for education because they are different from traditional high schools in a number of ways. For one thing, the children have made a commitment to be sober, including being willing to take drug tests. However, a Sober High School is not another version of a residential therapeutic school. So, although it is organized like a regular high school, it has a number of other elements to help all aspects of a child's life, including therapy, life skills training, and nutrition classes.
Generally, students who come here arrive from some sort of counseling program related to substance abuse, psychological disorders, and addictive behaviors. The school's focus is on all types of recovery, instead of simply sobriety from alcoholic beverages.
Devon also outlined the various considerations that went into creating this new education model. Sober High School has a day program while Newport Academy supplies a residential living program. The institution in Connecticut pioneered this new education model. It made a program that dramatically differs from those offered by all other recovery-oriented schools in the state of Connecticut. Now the Orange County academic program is modeling the one set up in Connecticut. Currently, this blend between a regular school and a therapeutic school is only suited for private schools due to substantial budget cuts in all public education programs. As an academic establishment, Sober High School is not approved in its own right, but it has collaborated with an accredited school. Sober high school recruits credentialed instructors with high school teaching and licensed specialists who have experience working in drug abuse programs.
Devon also commented on diverse other topics, including drug abuse fads, behavior administration, managing day pupils, managing instances of relapse, and managing learning disorders.
Final Thoughts
Toward the close of the interview, Devon discussed how Sober High Schools is a model for education for all type of schools, pointing out how both academic excellence and emotional well-being is important for all students regardless of the type of school they attend.
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