The Cherry Creek School District's Expulsion Program provides educational services for students who have been expelled from school. The main goal of the program is to enhance student success upon return to school.

 

The program provides expelled students with academic instruction in mathematics and language arts, with the goal that the student maintain and increase skills in these areas. Small-group processing sessions help students effectively deal with situations that, in the past, may have gotten them into trouble. The Expulsion Program staff works closely with the students' families through extensive intake interviews, frequent communication, and parent training. The program collaborates with community agencies, including Social Services, Probation Department, community mental health centers, and individual therapists with whom students are involved.

 

Highlights

• Students attend the Expulsion Program four days per week, 2 1/2 hours per day.
• Follow-up meetings for students who have returned to school are conducted. These meetings involve the student, the Expulsion Program staff, and the student's dean, assistant principal and counselor.

 

Expulsion Brochure.pdf

 

Cherry Creek School District operates a year-around educational program at the Marvin W. Foote Youth Services Center. This program is designed to meet the educational and affective needs of youth, who are preajudicated youth awaiting disposition on their charges. The ages of these youngsters range between ten to seventeen years of age.

 

The Educational Program is in operation 230-days per year. Only preadjudicated youth, inmates only charged with an offense, are taught by the Cherry Creek School District staff. Cherry Creek School District is required by The Colorado Children's Code, 19-2-402, which dictates to school districts in which detention centers are located, to provide this educational program. All school districts in the 18th Judicial District pay in proportion to the number of students enrolled. These youth have been detained at the Marvin W. Foote Youth Services Center, which is a maximum-security facility, for alleged crimes, and they are awaiting a court appearance. During the time of their incarceration, these youthful offenders must participate in the school program. The school population averages between sixty and ninety students and it is a racially- and culturally-diverse population with approximately four times as many males as females. The composition of the classes is determined by "pod" assignments. A "pod" is a location within the facility where the students live during their incarceration. The "pod" to which an individual is assigned is determined by the crime that they are accused of committing and their risk to the maintenance of the safety and security of the facility. Teachers differentiate the instruction of the curriculum to accommodate the students, i.e., fundamentals in reading, writing, math, social studies, and science; affective education, special education, computer training, recreation, climbing wall activities. In addition, creative writing, poetry, vocational assessment, and computers are typical courses that students are required to take. These classes are the curricular components of the school. The teachers are well aware of performance levels of students - each student is tested within 7 school days and results are made known to teachers. Students do not have a choice about attending the school. It is a required program during their incarceration.

 

Foote Brochure.pdf

The I-Team Programs provide 11th and 12th grade students, who are staffed into special education primarily for severe identifiable emotional/behavioral disabilities, an off-campus, structured educational environment. Class size is approximately 15 to 1, and provides academic, vocational and therapeutic support. As a component of the program, students must be employed or participating in a vocational education program.

• Ranch (GHS, CTHS)
  Ranch Brochure.pdf
• Estate (SHHS, EHS)
  Estate Brochure.pdf
• Manor (OHS, CCHS)
  Manor Brochure.pdf

The Joliet Learning Center (JLC) is a special education program that is designed to meet the needs of students with significant emotional disabilities. This program provides educational and mental health services to Cherry Creek School District students in a separate public school facility. We are located at the Joliet Complex, serving special education students in grades 6 through 12.

 

Our staff is committed to providing high quality academic programming while addressing the emotional and behavioral needs of each student. Our treatment goals focus on behaviors that impact success in the school setting. JLC students will return to their neighborhood schools when treatment goals have been met.

 

Referrals to the Joliet Learning Center are made by the student's neighborhood or center school with prior parental approval and a clear understanding of the referral process. Following a referral meeting, which is held at the neighborhood or center school, a pre-placement meeting/interview will be held at JLC in order for all parties to be able to agree regarding the appropriateness of the placement.

 

District transportation is provided to students attending the JLC. 

720-747-2900

 

JLC Brochure.pdf