TOPIC: Alternative Schools and Alternative Education

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Books and Chapters
• Improving School Improvement
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Student Engagement and Disengagement: An Intrinsic Motivation Perspective and a Mental Health Concern

Continuing Education Module
• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom Focused Enabling
• Personalizing Learning and Addressing Barriers to Learning: Two Continuing Education Units

Reports & Briefs
• Addressing Barriers to Successful Middle School Transition
• Dropouts and the 9th Grade Bulge
• Dropout Prevention: Do Districts Pursue Best Practice Recommendations?
• Enhancing Classroom Teachers? Capacity to Successfully Engage All Students in Learning: It?s the Foundation of Learning Supports
• Supports for Students Deemed At-Risk
• Youth Gangs and Schools

Quick Training Aid
• Behavior Problems at School
• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Guides
• Dropout Prevention
• Engaging and Re-engaging Families When a Student is Not Doing Well
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• RTI and Classroom & Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff
• Working with Disengaged Students (Practice Notes)

Practice Notes
• About Motivation
• Addressing Neighborhood Problems that Affect the School
• Minimizing Referrals Out of the Classroom
• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Turning Big Classes into Smaller Units
• Working with Disengaged Students

Introductory Packets
• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth
• Dropout Prevention
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Newsletters
• School Engagement, Disengagement, Learning Supports, & School Climate (Winter, '11)
• Concerns = Opportunities: Addressing Student Disengagement, Acting Out, and Dropouts by Moving in New Directions (Spring, '06)
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern (Spring, '98)
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers (Fall, '99)
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative (Fall '08)

Technical Assistant Sampler & Resource Aid
• School Engagement, Disengagement, Learning Supports, & School Climate
• Behavioral Initiatives in Broad Perspective

Articles
• L. Taylor & H. S. Adelman. Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account For Motivational and Developmental Differences.

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Alternative Education
• A literature review of alternative school academic interventions
• Alternative Education: Exploring Innovations in Learning
• Alternative Education Legislation in the Southwest (US)
• Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM)
• Alternative Schools Network
• Certain Groups Attend Alternative Schools in Greater Proportions than they do with other Schools
• Characteristics of students in alternative and traditional high schools
• Effects of Recovery high School Attendance on Student' Mental Health Symptoms
• How do states define alternative education?
• Missing the Mark: Alternative Schools in the State of Mississippi
• Modeling Resilience in an Alternative Education Context
• Necessary but Insufficient: How Educators Enact Hope for Formerly Disconnected Youth
• Shaping a new accountability system for alternative high schools
• Ten Signs That You Need to Find a Different Kind of Education for Your Child
• "Towards a Typology of Alternative Education Programs: A Compilation of Elements from the Literature" (2003) L. Aron
• "Vulnerable Youth: Identifying Their Need for Alternative Educational Settings" (2003) J. Zweig

School Programs
• Alternative high schools for at risk students
• A Unique Partnership: The Story of a Community School
• Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform - Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
• National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs