2. What is Phoenix Secondary? • Award-winning Fresno Unified 7th-12th Community Day School • A school committed to student success through Alternative Education • A school with a highly trained faculty and staff • Staff specializes in working with at-risk students • Phoenix Bird represents re-birth and rising from the ashes.
3. Phoenix Secondary serves students who have been expelled from mainstream middle and high school and uses alternative education plans to educate this population.
4. Many of the students that attend Phoenix Secondary have been detained at JJC for crimes relating to drugs, assault, and theft.
5. While the school does not have a specific written statement, it does have a motto that it stands by: "We will not let you be anything less than you are capable of".
6. Communities Served • Youth from Fresno and Clovis attend the Academy • Not restricted to one part of town, many youth are bussed in. • While there are a large percentage of JJC youth, many have been expelled • There are also a large number of foster youth who attend the academy. • The community specializes in working with behavioral issues in students.
7. Communities Served • The population is low-income • 100% of students receive free school breakfast and lunch. • The school interacts with outside agencies for beneficial purposes. • JJC, Fresno Police Department, and Valley Teen Ranch are partners. • These organizations help educate students about real-life.
8. The school is a public institution, which is ruled by the school board through the FUSD. The highest position in the direct agency is Principal, and that position is held by Brian Radkte. Other job positions in the agency include school social workers, school counselors, and Campus Assistants, who are individuals trained to restrain students in the instance that they are th
9. Roles in the Agency • Principal/Vice Principal: supervise school and interns • School Social Worker: meet with selected youth • Selected youth work on goals/interventions. • School Psych: conduct assessments on youth. • Campus Assistants: trained restraint methods for threatening youth.
10. -Song-ji High School- This high school functions similar to Phoenix academy and serves the same population: youth who attend for disciplinary reasons or youth that would not be able to succeed in a mainstream environment.
11. Son-ji High School • 1 of 40 alternative schools in Seoul, South Korea • Focuses on student participation and career training • Free, public school that is inclusive to lower/working class • alternative education through music, art, and training • works on behavior modification and anger management
12. Son-ji High School 1. Deficits: school does not receive much funding 2. No strict boundaries or rules, but strong expectations 3. run-down facilities 4. strengths: services all youth, works on behavior modification 5. addresses behaviors and gives youth tools for success
