2025 Arkansas Environmental & Outdoor Education Conference

ATU, in cooperation with the Janet Huckabee Nature Center and the Guy Fenter Education Service Cooperative, have developed and interventionalist program for Kids at Risk. Each of the representative school districts select a group of at-risk students whom they feel will most benefit from the experience. Those students attend the Students Assisting Teachers (SAT) program along with a teacher that has agreed to serve as the interventionalist for the students. Studies have shown that when kids feel a part of the school, have developed a cadre of friends, and have school support, educational performance improves along with student behavior. SAT provides that opportunity by providing students the joy of being “selected” to participate in the program and by participating in group bonding activities with teachers and other students.
Target audience: Classroom teachers, 3-12 grade