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Educational Organization Adelbrook services youth who are currently diagnosed with Autism, some at risk youth and students with both learning and developmental disabilities. Adelbrook now has 3 locations located in East Hartford, Manchester and Cromwell. Each location serves a different population. I.E Manchester deals with students from grades K-4 where they are primary struggling with behaviors. East Hartford Services youth from grades 5-12 where they are also struggling with behaviors. Cromwell focuses mainly on students with Autism and Learning/Developmental Disabilities. In each location the ethnicity varies, where Cromwell’s population is predominantly Caucasian youth.

Two Technology Supports Blended Learning – A new way to incorporate technology into the everyday curriculum of the core academics. It focuses on teacher student interaction while the teachers teach using technology. Digital Literacy – This focuses on the use of Technology in the classroom. It is desgined to increase the students knowledge on the relm of technology anywhere from basic to expert. It also allows the students to learn safety and security if the internet.

Technology Trends BYOD (Bring your own Device)- Allows students to incorporate their own devices by allowing them to bring the desired device from home. Flipped Classroom –Allows students to engage in a virtual classroom, and providing the ability to have them receive additional help from home.

Economic Trends Personal Learning Paths – Allows the parents and students to have access to the services requested and needed while allowing the student to work on his/her own pace. Technology Immersion – The growth of technology in an educational setting is growing rapidly. “By the beginning of the next decade, the number of unique objects connected wirelessly to the internet should reach 27 billion. Thereafter, the number of connected devices is expected to double every five years” (IBM, 2015).

Demographic Trends Diversity - “Rapid demographic changes in culture, race/ethnicity, and language in the United States have exerted a powerful influence on public schools, raising significant concerns or issues relative to the ability of the educational system to successfully educate all of its children as future citizens of a democratic society (Yates, 2008). Each school year more and more students are enrolling in schools who are culturally diverse. This will cause a need for more training within educators. Homeschooling - “Although many students’ children today attend private and public school, there has been a huge increase in home schooling within the past couple of years (Mackey, Reese, Mackey, 2011). The amount of students being homeschooled is growing each year. This limits the interaction between students and peers and teacher as well.

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