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Demonstration Sites

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Demonstration Sites

JJEEP conducted case studies of residential programs with the ultimate purpose of identifying demonstration sites.  The process for their selection includes combining multiple years of Quality Assurance (QA) performance information and teacher quality data to identify consistently high performing educational programs with little provider, administrative, and teacher turnover. Once identified, these programs receive case studies that identify program processes that facilitate best practices. The best practices identified in each program are based on an extensive literature review on juvenile justice education practices in peer-reviewed journals and books. Practices that were empirically proven to be successful were then scored using a rubric to distinguish differences among the programs. After the case studies are conducted, high-performing programs are asked to serve as demonstration sites. As demonstration sites, these programs are able to share their practices with other lower-performing programs throughout the state.

Roles and Responsibilities of Demonstration Sites

Demonstration sites have several roles and responsibilities.  These include: (1) maintaining high QA scores; (2) providing technical assistance to programs in need via prearranged visits, telephone calls, and email correspondence; (3) presenting at conferences, namely the Juvenile Justice Education Institute and Southern Conference on Corrections; and (4) having program representatives serve as peer reviewers in JJEEP's QA process.

Essentially, JJEEP is developing collaborative partnerships with the demonstration sites in order to increase practitioner input in program monitoring and evaluation, and to network with other programs throughout the state in order to raise the overall quality of educational services provided to Florida's incarcerated youths.  Ultimately, these demonstration sites will inform JJEEP's QA process by suggesting possible revisions to the QA standards and scoring procedures.

Demonstration Site Profiles