Knowing how and when to offer our students and their parents an alternative placement choice is vital to our continued success. Our state’s educators want to support teaching and learning in our classrooms. They also want to create options to support the student’s ability to behave in a way that is conducive to learning. This may involve selecting a virtual school, a virtual environment, or intervening with alternative placements or behavior plans until the student is better able to cope in their classrooms. We will bring together three system and school leaders who will share the work they do each day to support students and their families in a virtual environment or with behavioral support and intervention strategies. This event is created by request from our planning team this spring and TOSS ALI will offer a series of events around this topic in 2024/2025. So much has changed in Tennessee since 2020, we need more tools in our toolbox to support the classroom teacher and the parents of a child who struggles to participate in class with their peers. Our attendees will develop a plan and gain additional knowledge that can be used to support student behavioral challenges and their learning environments in their systems or schools. We are taking this time together to consider how our public schools can offer alternative placements that support all students and their families. 

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