South Allegheny Gladiator Academy
PROGRAM GOALS
The overarching goal of Gladiator Academy is to provide educational options for students who, for a variety of reasons, are not benefiting from the traditional school setting. More specifically, Gladiator Academy provides an educational environment designed to increase student success through flexibility, intensive behavioral supports, self-regulation strategies, social-emotional supports, individualized instruction, and academic remediation. These supports are intended to help students meet state and local academic and graduation requirements.
Students enrolled in Gladiator Academy are held to the same academic standards established for all students. Gladiator Academy provides students with a different pathway to meet the same high educational standards expected of students throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Gladiator Academy also provides educational programming for students who may otherwise be subject to long-term suspension or expulsion. The program provides students with an opportunity to continue working toward a high school diploma while addressing the circumstances that may have interfered with their success in a traditional school setting. Programming may include an increased emphasis on positive behavioral interventions and supports, behavior modification, self-regulation, academic remediation, and social-emotional development.
Gladiator Academy may also serve students who are experiencing attendance concerns, returning to school after dropping out, transitioning from a delinquency or other placement, or struggling to meet local academic or promotional requirements. Students facing long-term exclusion from their traditional school setting may also be placed in Gladiator Academy so that behavioral concerns can be addressed as educational matters while minimizing the loss of instructional time and educational opportunities.
Students may participate in Gladiator Academy for varying lengths of time based on their individual needs and educational circumstances. Depending on the student's program and progress, the goal may be to support the student through graduation or to successfully transition the student back to a traditional middle or high school setting.
