This 3 - part webinar series provides an overview of a tiered system of support
for keeping students in school, progressing in school, and on track to graduation.
Part of his work was to convince school - based leaders that they could maintain safe, orderly environments while also
keeping students in school who traditionally would have been suspended.
An interactive timeline looking at federal, regional, and local efforts to establish dropout - intervention programs to
help keep students in school.
Citizen Schools has developed a nationwide after - school program aimed
at keeping students in school so they can achieve more in their future jobs and in life.
This issue of Big IDEAS describes the important role mentoring plays
in keeping students in school and describes two successful mentoring programs in West Virginia.
Studies predict that Finland will hang on to its lackadaisical workers, and suggest things like «
keep students in school by engaging them with smaller class sizes and better paid teachers» or «get rid of standardized tests» and» individualize learning,» which they'll expand on by saying «create a system that instills curiosity, creativity, passion, and accept that it is impossible to test these things.»
Senate Bill 97 required 96 districts to adopt a policy to
keep students in school until they turn 18 or graduate to trigger statewide implementation within four years.
The initiative aims to support instead school discipline practices that foster safe, inclusive and positive learning environments
while keeping students in school.
These evidence - based approaches help schools support students with challenging behaviors and were recommended by the Mayoral Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline to
keep students in school learning instead of punishing them through exclusionary discipline practices, which do not address the underlying causes of the behavior.
She
said keeping students in school makes them less likely to join gangs or get pregnant, and «there are too many teachers out sick, too many are not showing up.»
Smyrna West has been recognized on a local and national level for its exceptional service - learning programs and success
in keeping students in school.
The goal of the Act was to improve student learning,
keep students in school until they graduated, and to provide relevant experiences that integrate school - based and work - based learning.
In Summer 2011, Education Secretary Duncan and Attorney General Holder announced the launch of a collaborative project — the Supportive School Discipline Initiative (Initiative)-- between the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Justice (DOJ) to support the use of school discipline practices that foster safe, supportive, and productive learning environments
while keeping students in school.
He called on the support of local small businesses to revitalize a once booming city and cited vocation programs as a necessary piece to building education and
keeping students in school.
The contributions will benefit such things as services and education regarding obesity, mental health, STDs, bullying, pregnancy prevention and drug abuse, and efforts to
keep students in school and seniors in their homes.
And it has been commendably principled on the question of whether exit exams increase dropout rates: The 2003 edition of its annual study snidely commented, «Exit exams are certainly not helping to
keep students in school.»
Leading figures in education policy, academia, and philanthropy called today for a «re-engineering» of the nation's approach to adolescent literacy, saying nothing short of a «literacy revolution» is needed to
keep students in school and ensure that they are able to learn the complex material that college and careers will demand of them.
A national panel urged federal policymakers last week to «take a more active role» in promoting adolescent reading and writing, and called for nothing short of a «literacy revolution» to
keep students in school and ensure they are able to learn the complex material that college and careers will demand of them.
Luckily we have policy levers to
keep students in school and in class.
► Positive approaches to discipline that reduce disparities in suspension rates based on race and disability and
keep students in school.
When problems do occur, schools can use Restorative Practices to rebuild connections,
keep students in school and contribute to a positive school climate.
You will be taken through the process that
keeps students in school, in class, and on task.
No sustained and comprehensive effort to
keep students in school can afford to ignore what happens in the classroom.
We recently spoke to administrators from three urban and suburban Oregon middle schools dedicated to
keeping students in school and who are collecting data that show their success in changing their discipline policies and practices.
They have found joy and passion in doing so and are committed to
keeping students in school, succeeding academically.
But there is no closure, much less moral triumph in this episode — certainly not for the many independent charter schools in NYC that go to great lengths to work with and
keep all their students in school and who are continually associated in the public eye with the practices of no - excuses charter schools.
Dr. Patricia McClure of the SERVE Center at UNCG demonstrates resources available on the What Works Clearinghouse and the Doing What Works websites that schools can use in planning interventions to
keep students in school and on track to graduation.
This targeted funding will support additional model programs that can help districts learn and implement national best practices to
keep students in school and on a productive path.
Committed to eliminating the school - to - prison pipeline, these students learn to use restorative justice practices that
keep students in schools and out of the juvenile justice system.
Joanna Fox of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University reviews research related to community partnerships that support
keeping students in school and on track to graduation, provided snapshots of community and non-profit organizations dropout prevention efforts, and shares success stories of a few schools and districts — Dothan City Schools, Alabama; Harris County Schools in Houston, Texas; and New York City Schools.
Lynn Briley, Principal of I.C. Norcom High School, Portsmouth County Public Schools, describes how the I.C. Norcom High School Early Warning System and On - time Graduation Teams developed community partnerships to collaboratively improve student achievement and to
keep students in school and on track to graduation.