When direct instruction, feedback, and community all come together

The three things we've talked about over the last three weeks, and how they all come together to create our unique program and system at Starfish Social Club. The direct instruction through our curriculum, the feedback our students receive, and the community that is created amongst the students here. They are all three vital to the success of our students, and what happens if one or even two of these elements are missing in the program that students may be in now outside of Starfish Social Club.

Segment from this episode:

One of the things that can happen if you think about a program that has direct, explicit instruction and it's got a feedback component to it, but it does not have the community amongst the people in the program (this may be some interventions that happen in school, this very well could be one on one interventions, because it's hard to have a sense of community if a kiddo is in an intervention by themselves), one of the things that comes out of a program that's structured in that way without the sense of community amongst the other kids, is our kids start to feel like there's something wrong with them. That they are receiving this therapy or this intervention or this service or this pullout, because there's something wrong with them. They feel isolated. It definitely comes from more of a deficit-type model. 'Why don't other kids go to this?' I've heard that when I was in the classroom and I had kids that would go to speech therapy: 'Why don't other kids from my class go to this?'

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