Where can I get low-cost and/or free resources for working with delinquent/adjudicated adolescents?
I assume you’re looking for materials specific to your population. I would recommend two things. The first would be to re-work all ideas to kinesthetic education. Many (most?) of the folks who end up in such sitations are there because they did not do well in school, and they did not do well in school because they are neither visual nor auditory learners. The schools essentially ignored them, so in time, they ignored the schools. Now they have to learn what they never could. (Or, as happened to my older brother, he registers for community college, takes some tests, and then hears why public school was a struggle: “Mr. Davis, you’re dyslexic.” That’s nice; why didn’t you say that 25 years ago?) Actually make the letters three-dimensional; have them wrap a stick lined with math facts (we’ve a set here for home-schooling); have them color maps by continent, then country, then place the cities; get the hands involved, somehow. The second is to get (buy) little knicknacks as rewards. At thi
