Elevate: Guiding Teens Through Trauma
August 16, 2017
August 16, 2017
NORMAN, Okla., Aug. 16 -- The Oklahoma Department of Education issued the following news release:
Death, alcoholism, and family involved with gangs in a neighboring city made going to school difficult for a 16-year-old Norman girl. That was before she had a baby.
Three years later, she has a high school diploma, a national award for poetry and plans for college. Dimensions Academy, an alternative school in Norman serving grades kindergarten through 12, and the district' . . .
Death, alcoholism, and family involved with gangs in a neighboring city made going to school difficult for a 16-year-old Norman girl. That was before she had a baby.
Three years later, she has a high school diploma, a national award for poetry and plans for college. Dimensions Academy, an alternative school in Norman serving grades kindergarten through 12, and the district' . . .