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Best Practices (Teaching and Leadership)

Kid Chasers: How we built a thriving online intervention/credit recovery program

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM East Coast USA Time
Location: A707
Session Type: Contributed Talk

    Presenter(s)

  • Kyle J. Farner

    Assistant Principal
    27J Online Academy
    Brighton, Colorado, United States

Abstract Description :

The 27J Online Academy, in short order, created an intervention/credit recovery program that is showing a 95% pass rate by our students. This program serves our district expelled students, administrative transfer students due to safety/health/family need, and a plethora of other individual situations. We accomplished this by hiring "Kid Chasers." Our philosophy is based on the work of Sugata Mitra and his "Hole in the wall" TED Talk. We did not need content experts in the role of teacher (we call them Success Coaches), we needed relentless chasing. The bulk of our presentation will be about our Success Coaches, the "Kid Chasers", and the process to identify who they are. 

If someone was doing a search for your session in the program what 5 words might they use to search for and find your session.: credit recovery, intervention, expulsion program,

Learning Objectives:

  • At the end of the session, participants will have some clear "look fors" in their hiring processes for credit recovery/intervention teachers.
  • At the end of this session, participants will have an understanding of how to leverage Canvas and Accelerate Education/Edmentum to better serve students needing intervention.
  • At the end of this session, participants should have a short blueprint for a successful expulsion program.