Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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Para-professional David Villa instructs a student in solvvig a math equation David was also a student at Kent State University at the Ashtatxila Branch 24 Alternative Education

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A picture of Ricardo Nimo, an exchange student who stayed w h the Brats family two years ago. is held by Patricia Even though she never met Kichardo. she learned a lot about him Taking a break from cheering as this year's limo is Patricia Unfortunately, she could participate at ony home games because mascots were not taken on away games AFS student goes through a growing experience 1 or the second consecutive year, our L school had the privilege of hosting I an AFS student from Africa. Patricia Wambui. unlike Melanie Niekerk, who was from South Africa, was from Nyrobi, Kenya. In Kenya, Patricia lived in a children's home which housed approximately eight-seven other kids Within her own family, Patricia had three older sisters, ranging in age from 19-24. During her year here, Patricia took part in two AFS get togethers. These get togethers were at Quail Hollow and Cedar Hills. All exchange students and their host brothers or sisters attended these events Patricia also experienced an exchange weekend These weekends sent all of the students in the area to different cities. Patricia went to Berkshire and PainesviBe Harvey. Patricia found her year to be successful saying, It takes a lot of trying and a lot of drive to be able to live away from your home Being here had helped me to grow up a lot and has helped me see the changes I need to make within myself It may have been a lot of trying, but Patricia made it seem easy. AFS Student 23

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Alternative education helps the unmotivated An alternate Project Yield (a school within a school) is an education alternative pilot program co-developed by the Ashtabula County Juvenile Court and the Ashtabula City School System. Astabula, Ohio. The project meets the needs of multi-problem youth, who previously had three options: 1) repeated suspensions, 2) expulsion and or 3) referral to luvemle Court. Over the past three years, the school system and the The instructional process is facilitated by all staff members such as Ernie DeZolt in Alt Ed This process was second nature to Ernie who was also a part-time nstructor at K.S.l). court began to feel the burden of this ineffective system. The program is based on a six-week format of individual instruction with tutorial services if needed. Prior to the student entering Y.I.E.L.D. an Individual Treatment Plan (I.T.F.) is developed addressing areas of deficiency. Throughout the next six weeks, the student works on improving'these targeted areas. It is possible for a student to Max-out of the program in less than six weeks. Students here are involved in one-on-one tutoring This student is shown unassisted n completng m order to complete thee assignments Much of homework assignments Thrs level of work was the the work David got involved with darfy was a car- last stage prior to manstreaming the students back ry-over from his studies at K.S.U. nto regular classes Alternative Education 25