NCJ Number
198991
Journal
Corrections Today Volume: 65 Issue: 1 Dated: February 2003 Pages: 83-87
Date Published
February 2003
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This article discusses Georgia’s Department of Juvenile Justice’s educational reform program.
Abstract
Stating that Georgia developed a comprehensive plan to meet the needs of youths enrolled in educational programming, the author explains that the beginning of Georgia’s Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) reform program emerged from a series of teachers asking how they could better provide quality educational programming that would meet the needs of a wide variety of individuals. Describing strategic planning for improvement, the author discusses five phases designed to develop, assess, and implement school improvement plans for the State of Georgia. Phase One of the school improvement process focused on planning to plan, while Phase Two addressed data compilation. In Phase Three, strategic planning, including programming direction, educational management, educational resources, space, special education, behavior management, staffing plans, and staff development was designed. Phase Four focused on the implementation process, while Phase Five of the strategic planning for improvement addressed the continued maintenance of the school improvement plan and the evaluation of Georgia’s DJJ program. Significant changes have been made in Georgia’s DJJ educational system based on the reform measures implemented by the strategic planning for school improvement process.