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Contributed Talk

Supporting Special Student Populations

Kid Chasers: How we built a thriving credit recovery/expelled program

SESSION DATES & TIMES COMING IN AUGUST 2026
Audience Classification: Online Learning
Audience Expertise: Newbies - Early stage implementers: attendees running a program in its first 1–2 years and looking for foundational strategies.
Grade Level Focus: High Schools
Primary Audience: District Leader, Teacher, Inst Leader, School Leader
Does this session focus on a specific product? No – This session is focused on ideas, strategies, or practices, not a specific product or service.
Abstract Description : The 27J Online Academy, in short order, created an intervention/credit recovery program that is showing a 95% pass rate by our students. This program serves our district expelled students, administrative transfer students due to safety/health/family need, and a plethora of other individual situations. We accomplished this by hiring "Kid Chasers." Our philosophy is based on the work of Sugata Mitra and his "Hole in the wall" TED Talk. We did not need content experts in the role of teacher (we call them Success Coaches), we needed relentless chasing. The bulk of our presentation will be about our Success Coaches, the "Kid Chasers", and the process to identify who they are.

Learning Objectives:

  • At the end of this session, participants will have a more clear profile of the most successful online interventionists.
  • At the end of this session, participants will have a beginning blueprint for a successful expelled/credit recovery online program.