Credit recovery can save your community’s future. It will save the sophomore who flunked geometry and world history. It will save the senior who is ten credits short of graduation. It will save the sick student who can’t attend every day. It will save the special needs student who is almost getting it. Schools need to adapt strategies to ensure post-schools success. No diploma equals a menial job and a hardscrabble future. It’s time to rewrite the future. This video profiles a successful high school CR program that is yours to model.
We found a credit recovery program at Crown
Point High School in Indiana that goes beyond
the obvious. Here the program is also about
redemption. Such programs offer a second chance
for the school—and its teachers—to re-engage
students who have lost their bond with their
classmates, coursework, and mentors, but most
importantly, their own future. This program is
about discipline. It’s about character. It’s about
persistence. And it’s about directing students
down a path toward post-school success.
Forum director Leonard Burrello spent a day
with CRL director Jonathan Haas discussing
Crown Point’s program philosophy and student
orientation process. With a rock solid,
technology-driven virtual curriculum covering five
subject areas, Haas describes how the CRL carries
out its mission from interventions and the referral
process, to data collection and student monitoring
and counseling. And Haas reviews the software
applications that allow CRL programs to flourish.
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Who Should Watch this DVD:
High School Principals
Directors of Instructional Technology
High School Counselors
Special Education Directors
Curriculum Directors
Program Sections
Welcome to CRL (2:30)
Philosophy (4.30)
How the Lab Works (7.00)
Tailoring Curriculum to Student Needs (7.30)
Staffing the Lab (4:00)
CRL & School Culture (6:30)
Bonus Section: Notes on virtual cirriculums and managing student data (10:00)
Credit Recovery’s Host
Forum Director Leonard Burrello is
currently a Professor of Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies at University
of South Florida and maintains his
Professor Emeritus appointment at
Indiana University. He is currently
researching secondary transformation and
teacher leadership. He is the author of
many books, including School Leaders
Building Capacity From Within.
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Student Back on Track
CROWN PT. INDIANA — Credit Recovery Lab director
Jonathan Haas sat down with Jeremy to discuss his experience
in the CRL.
“Do you think you would have graduated at all, or even on
time, had it not been for the credit recovery lab?” Haas asked.
“I think CR has gotten me back on spot,” Jeremy said,
“because I would have been graduating with the class below me
or maybe even the class below that one because of how bad my
grade point average and grades were.” Jeremy was enthusiastic
when asked to sum up the lab’s importance to his academic
success. “The lab is great. It has gotten me back to where I need
to be to graduate in 2012 with all my other classmates.”
CR Helps Increase
Graduation Rates
CROWN PT. INDIANA —
Located in Northwest
Indiana, Crown Point High
School is annually recognized
as a top school in the state. In
2011 their credit recovery lab
served nearly 8% of the
student body, and earned over
700 credits. Last year, the
school’s graduation rate
topped 96%. It’s highest ever.
"The Credit Recovery lab
is helping kids accumulate
credits towards graduation,”
said Crown Point principal
Dr. Eric Ban, “inherently it
has allowed them to have
success.”
More schools are creating
CR labs to meet the needs of
their students.
