Alternative Learners
Alternative Learners
~LETTER TO~
Great Day Alternative Schools Professionals:
It’s an honor to be able to communicate with you and your staff about our children. As a doctoral student at Liberty University, former Marine, and one who grew up in the inner city, I have a visual blueprint of the intricacies of at-risk learners. These learners often are poor readers and disenfranchised from a rich pedagogy process. The feeling of being cast aside breeds maladaptive behaviors and toxic attachments to gangs, drugs, guns and sex. Behavior 100 is a language arts platform that exposes learners to a plethora of visual/graphic novels, skits, roleplaying devices, and poetry. The organic education devices are vivid and visually engaging to students.
The I-MICE stories and illustrations are culturally relevant and condition the learner’s ability to read, decode and draw deep meaning from literature. It captivates their attention causing students to want to listen and learn. B100’s use of poetry in its stories assists poor readers in sounding out words by rhyming unfamiliar words with those that come before. (i.e. Knowing the previous word was “puddle” may help a student sound out the word “befuddle.”) B100’s organic curriculum provides a way to reach and teach learners right where they are, whether high achieving, underachieving or anywhere in between.
