{"id":15418,"date":"2025-01-24T22:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15418"},"modified":"2025-02-20T23:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:57:05","slug":"a-teacher-in-hales-corners-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15418","title":{"rendered":"A teacher in Hales Corners, WI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/a-teacher-in-hales-corners-wi\/\">https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/a-teacher-in-hales-corners-wi\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At School Choice Wisconsin, we believe that each child is unique, and an array of educational options will best meet diverse needs. Journeys Lutheran School is a prime example of a choice school that serves students with exceptional needs, especially those with disabilities that need high-level attention. Each student is given an individualized learning plan upon enrollment to ensure these learning needs are the focal point of their educational experience.<\/p>\n<p>Special needs programs can be quite costly for parents, but Journeys includes these services for all their students who need them. The school features a program called the Crossroads Classroom, which serves high-needs students both academically and socially. Jennifer Gerena, one of the Crossroads teachers at the school, describes it as an all-inclusive environment that helps students grow in their academics while simultaneously learning life-skills to prepare them for the outside world. This program contributes to the overall school culture, promoting values of respect, empathy, and inclusivity to the entire school community.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gerena finds the opportunity to teach at Journeys highly rewarding, saying that<strong> \u201cto be able to find a school and place that makes a difference and has differentiated instruction for scholars like them who just learn differently and have the support for their families fill[s] my heart with joy!\u201d<\/strong> Students with special learning needs deserve school options such as this one to help them reach their full potential\u2014especially when these options are financially accessible.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/a-teacher-in-hales-corners-wi\/\">A teacher in Hales Corners, WI<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\">School Choice Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/schoolchoicewi.org\/a-teacher-in-hales-corners-wi\/ At School Choice Wisconsin, we believe that each child&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-choice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15419,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions\/15419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}