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Tonya’s Story
Tonya is a 16-year-old student in a Federal setting 4 E/BD program. She has had a difficult time
attending school and completing assignments. Due to absences, she is a year or two behind where she is expected to be achieving.
Tonya attends a vocational program two hours a day at a vocational education center. The course she
is taking has the technical writing standard embedded into it. Tonya has the opportunity to complete that standard like any other student.
At her separate-site program, the teachers have identified a cycle of standards that are delivered
throughout the school year. In addition, Tonya has a job and is involved in an employment seminar through which she is completing the career investigation standard.
During a research project in a social studies class, Tonya initially refused to finish the timeline
she was producing. When her class was told that their finished projects were being taken to a state-sponsored workshop on scoring students’ work, Tonya was motivated to finish.
Tonya became aware that graduation standards apply to her, just like everyone else.
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