The New Classroom: A Special KUAF Reporting Series on Education During COVID-19

0000017d-2122-dd26-adfd-e56710b50000The New Classroom is a special reporting series, supported by The Walton Family Foundation, exploring the struggles, changes and innovations in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find reports in this series listed below.

Disruptive Students Learn Behavior Skills in New Behavior Classrooms

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published April 16, 2018 at 11:35 AM CDT

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L to R: Special Education Resource Administrator Trish Wood; R.E. Baker Elementary Behavior Classroom teacher Stefanie Siedsma; R.E. Baker Elementary School Principal Josh Draper; and district behavioral specialist Lindsey Lovelady.

J. Froelich

Bentonville elementary school students who chronically disrupt classes are being temporarily sequestered in two new behavior classrooms. There, children receive behavioral therapy along with grade-level class assignments. The alternative learning environments were developed by a team of Bentonville school district experts, implementing state-of-the-art programming.