Relevant Publications on the Internet (see also the Center's Quick Find on Immigrants)

• Elementary
  • Easing the Transition for PreK to Kindergarten: What Schools Can Do to Address Child Readiness
  • Kindergarten Transition (2002) Harvard Family Research Project
  • Recess in Elementary School: What Does the Research Say?

• Middle School
  • Ensuring successful student transitions from the middle grades to high school
  • Helping Middle School Students Make the Transition into High School
  • Transitions to and from Middle School
  • The Transition to Middle School
  • Welcome to Our School � A Transition from Elementary to Middle School

• High School
  • Academic Vulnerability and Resilience during the Transition to High School
  • Falling Off Track During the Transition to High School: What We Know and What Can Be Done. Future of Children, 19(1), 53-76
  • Freshman Transition Programs: Long-term and Comprehensive
  • Freshman Transition Initiative
  • Improving the Educational Possibilities of Urban High School Students as They Transition from 8 to 9 Grade
  • Preventable Failure: Improvements in Long-term Outcomes when High Schools Focused on the Ninth grade Year
  • Support Student Transition From Middle to High School
  • Supporting Young Adolescents' Middle-to-High-School Transition Through Creating a Ninth-Grade Community of Care: Implications for Middle Level Educators

• Summer Learning
  • Impacts of a Summer Learning Program
  • "Ingredients of a Successful Summer Learning Program (2007) J. Capizzano, et al., Urban Institute."
  • Making Summer Count: How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning
  • National Summer Learning Association
  • Ninth Grade Counts: Using Summer Bridge Programs to Strengthen the High School Transition
  • PBS Kids Lab
  • Summer Learning: A new vcision for supporting students in summer programs
  • The Family Education Website
  • Time in America: Trends to Reform the American School Calendar - A Snapshot of Feferal, State, and Local Action
  • Year-Round Learning: Linking School, Afterschool, and Summer Learning to Support Student Success

• General
  • Articulation Transition and Orientation Guide
  • Back to School
  • Back to School Time - Tips to Help Children Adjust
  • District Transition Team
  • A Guide for Professionals Serving Youth with Educational and Career Development Challenges
  • Help for Transition-Age Youth with Mental Health Conditions
  • How School Closings Affect Children
  • Improving Transfer and Articulation Policies
  • "Intersection: Navigating the Road to Work"
  • National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
  • Newcomer Toolkit
  • Parents and the School-to-Work Transition of Special Needs Youth
  • Participate in a District Goals to make your School a Wonderful Place for Newcomers
  • Planning for Terrific Transitions: A Guide for Transitions to School Teams
  • Promoting Seamless Transitions from Pre-School to Kindergrarten and Beyond
  • Psychiatric Facility and School Transition Initiative
  • "Is Recess a Frivolous Waste of Time with no Apparent Outcomes?" (2007) R. Clements, Teacher College Record"
  • "Student Mobility and Academic Achievement" (2002) Eric Digest
  • Student Mobility: Causes, consequences and solutions
  • Tips on Core Competencies for Transition Service Providers
  • Transition assistance to youth with mental health needs. (2008)
  • Transition One Stop - Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky
  • Transition Planning: Community mapping as a tool for teachers and students
  • Welcoming a Non-English Speaking Student to Your Class
  • Welcoming Schools Website
  • Work, Postsecondary Education, and Psychosocial Functioning Following the Transition From High School. (2005) R. Aseltine & S. Gore, Journal of Adolescent Research, 20(6) 615-639

• Transition from hospital/residential/day care to school
  • Effecting Successful Community Re-Entry: Systems of Care Community Based Mental Health Services
  • Elements of School Re-entry after hospitalization
  • Hospital to school transitions for children
  • Hospital to school transitions for children with Chronic Illness: Meeting the New Challenges of an Evolving Health Care System
  • Recovery schools show promise, but face challenges
  • Strategies to ensure your child's successful transition back to school after hospitalization
  • The departure status of youth from residential group care: Implications for aftercare
  • Tough Transitions: Mental Health Care Professionals' Perception of the Psychiatric Hospital to School Transition
  • Transitioning Children from Psychiatric Hospitals to Schools: The Role of Special Education
  • Guidelines for school re-entry following discharge from psychiatric hopspitalization
  • A School-Based Transition Program for Adolescents Returning to High School After a Mental Health Emergency

  Videos

  Related Agencies and Websites

  • Center for Summer Learning (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Highly Mobile Children: Addressing Educational Challenges
  • National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
  • National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
  • National Institute on Out-of-School Time
  • National Technical Assistance Center on Youth Transitions
  • RTC for Pathways to Positive Futures
  • Transition Coalition

  Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained through Libraries

  • A study of student attitudes toward school during the transition from middle school to high school. By T.M. Letrello. (2002). Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities & Social Sciences, 63(4-A), 1255.
  • Achievement Loss Associated With the Transition to Middle School and High School. By Alspaugh, J.W., Sept/Oct 1998. In The Journal of Educational Research, 92 (1), 20-5.
  • Assessing the transitions to middle and high school. By B.K. Barber, J.A. Olsen. (2004). Journal of Adolescent Research, 1(19), 3-30.
  • Bridging the Transition from Primary to Secondary School. By Howe, A. & Richards, V. (2011). Routledge.
  • College and Career Ready: Helping All Students Succeed beyond High School. By Conley, David T. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
  • Developing an Effective Transition Program for Students Entering Middle School or High School. By K. M. Cauley, D. Jovanovich. (2006). The Clearing House, 1(80), 15-25.
  • Facilitating Student Transitions into Middle School. By Stoffner, M.F. & Williamson, R.D., Mar 2000. In Middle School Journal, 31(4), 47-51.
  • Mobility. By W.R. Capps & M.E. Maxwell. (2002). American School Board Journal, 189(5), 26-29.
  • Mobility and the Achievement Gap. By H. Skandera & R. Sousa. (2002). Hoover Digest: Research and Opinion on Public Policy, 3, 1-5.
  • On the road to nowhere? Young disabled people and transition. By B. Beresford. (2004). Child: Care, Health, and Development, 30(6), 581-587.
  • Parental involvement during the transition to high school. By T. Falbo, L. Lein & N.A. Amador. (2001). Journal of Adolescent Research, 16(5), 511-29.
  • Parental resources and the transition to junior high. By S.W. Grolnick, O.C. Kurowski, G.K. Dunlap & C. Hevey. (2000). Journal of Research on Adolescence, 10(4), 465-488.
  • Patterns of social support in the middle childhood to early adolescent transition: Implications for adjustment. By M. J. Levitt, J. Levitt, G. L. Bustos, N. A. Crooks, J. D. Santos, P. Telan, J. Hodgetts, A. Milevsky. (2005). Social Development, 14(3).
  • The Pivotal year: rough transitions can make ninth grade little more than a holding tank for high school. By S. Black. (2004). American School Board Journal, February 2004
  • Planning successful transitions from school to adult roles for youth with disabilities. By G. A. King, P. J. Baldwin, M. Currie, J. Evans. (2005). Children's Health Care, 34(3), 191-216
  • Postsecondary education and transition for students with learning disabilities, second edition. By L. C. Brinckerhoff, J. M. McGuire, S. F. Shaw. (2002). PRO-ED, Inc., Publishers: Austin, TX.
  • Risk factors, protective factors, vulnerability, and resilience: a framework for understanding and supporting the adult transitions of youth with high-incidence disabilities. By C. Murray. (2003). Remedial and Special Education, 24.
  • School Personnel's Perceptions of Effective Programs for Working with Mobile Students and Families. By T.A. Fisher, L. Matthews, M.E. Stafford, N. Kathryn & K. Durante. (2002). Elementary School Journal, 102(4), 317-33.
  • School Transition as a stressful life event and the role of social competence and social support as protective factors during the transition to junior high school. By C.C. Macintosh. (2000). Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities & Social Sciences, 61(1-A), 84.
  • School Transition from elementary to secondary school: changes in psychological adjustment. By A. Lohaus, C. Ev Elben, J. Ball, J. Klein-Hessling. (2004). Educational Psychology, 24(2), 161-173.
  • Student Perceptions of the Transition from Elementary School to High School. By P. Akos. (2002). Professional School Counseling, 5(5), 339-345.
  • Supporting the development of emotional intelligence competencies to ease the transition from primary to high school. By P. Qualter, H. E. Whiteley, J. M. Hutchinson, D. J. Pope. (2007). Educational Psychology in Practice, 23(1), 79-95.
  • Theories in practice: School-to-work transitions-for-youth with mild disabilities. By L.T. Eisenman. (2003). Exceptionality, 11(2), 89-102.
  • The role of peer counseling and support in helping to reduce anxieties around transition from primary to secondary school. By P. Slater, M. McKeown. (2004). Counseling and Psychotherapy Research, 4(1), 72-79.
  • The transition from elementary to high school: The pivotal role of mother and child characteristics in explaining trajectories of academic functioning. S. Duchesne, S. Larose, F. Guay, F. Vitaro, R. Tremblay. (2005). International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29(5), 409-417.
  • Transition from school to adult life: Empowering youth through community ownership and accountability. By C. M. Lehman, H. B. Clark, M. Bullis, J. Rinkin, L. A. Castellanos. (2004). Journal of Child and Family Studies, 11(1), 127-141.
  • Transition groups for preparing students for middle school. By P. Akos, M. Martin. (2003). The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 28(2), 139-154.
  • Transition options for youth with disabilities: An overview of the programs and policies that affect the transition from school. By D.C. Wittenburg, T. Golden, M. Fishman. (2002). Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 17(3), 195-206.
  • Urban Adolescents' Transition to Junior High School and Protective Family Transactions. By E. Seidman, L.E. Lambert, A. LaRue, J.L. Aber. (2003). The Journal of Early Adolescence, 2(23), 166-193.

  
  

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