2. Adults in the United States face the challenges of life in an ever-changing
technological age.
Successfully coping with these challenges requires adults to employ
educational processes that are the basic tools of human growth and
development.
Incarcerated adults, as a group, lack these basic educational tools needed
to adjust successfully to the dynamic economic, sociological, and cultural
dimensions of today’s society.
Confined persons need to develop the academic skills which allow them
to process knowledge and information, the vocational competencies
which enable them to be productive in society, and the social skills which
provide them with self-confidence and the ability to interact successfully
with others.
3. Windham School District Career and
Technical Education Programs
FY 2008
Programs Participants
Occupational Training from
Auto Specialization to Welding
(full-length course) 12,182
Industry Certificates Awarded
4,011
Short Course (45 to 200
hours course) 134
Apprenticeship Program 324
4. Vocational teachers in the
following trades were
provided with staff
development:
Computer Maintenance
Technician
Business Computer
Information Systems
Business Image
Management and
Multimedia
Diesel Mechanics.
5. Windham School District 2008-2009
TOTAL PARTICIPANTS 78,887
Literacy Participants 37,790
Literacy I, Reading 531
Literacy I, II, III 33,681
English as a Second Language 1,121
Special Education 1,670
Title I 831
Life Skills Participants 49,733
CHANGES (Pre-Release) 30,749
Cognitive Intervention 17,464
Parenting 5,530
Perspectives and Solutions 3,892
Women’s Health 1,098
Life Matters 1,493
Career & Technical Education 11,290
Full-Length Course 10,890
Short Course 136
Apprenticeship Related Training 278
GEDs Awarded 4,893
Vocational Certificates Issued 1,585
Industry Certificates Awarded 3,163
6. Windham School District 2007-2008
TOTAL PARTICIPANTS 82,449
Literacy Participants 39,687
Literacy I, Reading 555
Literacy I, II, III 35,366
English as a Second Language 1,165
Special Education 1,784
Title I 870
Life Skills Participants 51,468
CHANGES (Pre-Release) 31,875
Cognitive Intervention 18,156
Parenting 5,683
Perspectives and Solutions 3,603
Women’s Health 959
Life Matters 1,610
Career & Technical Education 12,182
Full-Length Course 11,741
Short Course 134
Apprenticeship Related Training 324
GEDs Awarded 5,039
Vocational Certificates Issued 5,975
Industry Certificates Awarded 4,011
7. Windham School District 2006-2007
TOTAL PARTICIPANTS 78,124
Literacy Participants 38,250
Literacy I, Reading 708
Literacy I, II, III 33,989
English as a Second Language 1,012
Special Education 1,740
Title I 870
Life Skills Participants 48,443
CHANGES (Pre-Release) 30,656
Cognitive Intervention 1 7,424
Parenting 5,102
Perspectives and Solutions 3,441
Women’s Health 993
Life Matters 447
Career & Technical Education
Participants 11,160
Full-Length Course 10,586
Short Course 142
Apprenticeship Related Training 447
GEDs Awarded 5,039
Vocational Certificates Issued 5,733
Industry Certificates Awarded 2,751
8. 1990 Windham committed to
the full-scale implementation
of Computer Assisted
Instruction.
* Windham is a unique school district in that its primary
goal is reduction of recidivism as well as attempting to
release productive citizens with viable employment skills
back into society. View http://wsdtx.org.
2005 Windham incorporated
assistive technology for
students with visual and
hearing impairments.
