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.
Devon Green
Devon Green finished her higher education at Loyola Marymount University in Westchester, CA, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Studies in 2004. She continued her education to earn a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from Loyola. As a teacher invested in the success of her students, her objective is to motivate her student's to identify their strengths, establish clear goals and objectives for themselves, and actively work toward reaching their most desired outcomes in life. In her own case, she struggled with a chronic eating disorder throughout her adolescence, a condition that was finally healed after getting intensive inpatient treatment in 2001. Her adolescent experience with a long-standing addiction has given her the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to direct others experiencing problems with an obsession or 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 elaborated on all the various considerations that went into creating this new education model. Sober High School has a day program while NewPort Academy offers a residential program. The school in Connecticut pioneered this new education model. It designed a program very different from those offered by all other recovery-oriented schools in Connecticut. Now the Orange County school is modeling the one established in Connecticut. Currently, this blend between a regular school and a therapeutic school is most suitable for private schools because of massive budget cuts in the public schools. The school is not accredited in its own right, but has a partnership with an accredited high school. Sober High School hires credentialed teachers with middle or high school teaching experience and licensed therapists who have worked with substance abuse disorders.
Devon also commented on diverse other topics, including substance abuse trends, behavioral management, supervising day students, dealing with relapse cases, and handling learning differences.
Conclusion
Toward the close of the meeting, Devon discussed just how Sober High Schools is a model for education and learning for all sort of schools, explaining how both academic quality and psychological well-being is important for all pupils regardless of the kind of academic establishment they go to.
Devon Green
Devon Green finished her higher education at Loyola Marymount University in Westchester, CA, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Studies in 2004. She continued her education to earn a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from Loyola. As a teacher invested in the success of her students, her objective is to motivate her student's to identify their strengths, establish clear goals and objectives for themselves, and actively work toward reaching their most desired outcomes in life. In her own case, she struggled with a chronic eating disorder throughout her adolescence, a condition that was finally healed after getting intensive inpatient treatment in 2001. Her adolescent experience with a long-standing addiction has given her the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to direct others experiencing problems with an obsession or 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 elaborated on all the various considerations that went into creating this new education model. Sober High School has a day program while NewPort Academy offers a residential program. The school in Connecticut pioneered this new education model. It designed a program very different from those offered by all other recovery-oriented schools in Connecticut. Now the Orange County school is modeling the one established in Connecticut. Currently, this blend between a regular school and a therapeutic school is most suitable for private schools because of massive budget cuts in the public schools. The school is not accredited in its own right, but has a partnership with an accredited high school. Sober High School hires credentialed teachers with middle or high school teaching experience and licensed therapists who have worked with substance abuse disorders.
Devon also commented on diverse other topics, including substance abuse trends, behavioral management, supervising day students, dealing with relapse cases, and handling learning differences.
Conclusion
Toward the close of the meeting, Devon discussed just how Sober High Schools is a model for education and learning for all sort of schools, explaining how both academic quality and psychological well-being is important for all pupils regardless of the kind of academic establishment they go to.
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Lon Woodbury, the founder of Struggling Teens, has recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at their convenience.
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