TOPIC: Supports for Transitions /Grade Articulation/Welcoming, etc.

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Center Developed Resources and Tools

Chapter in Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System
• Supports for Transitions

Self-study Survey
• Supports for Transitions

Introductory Packets
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support
  

Practice Notes
• About Pressures on Affluent Students Related to University Admission
• About Programs for After School Hours and Non-school Days
• About School Adjustment
• Addressing School Adjustment Problems
• A Student-initiated, Student-run, and Student-funded Center for Retaining Underrepresented Minority University Students
• Back-to-School Anxiety
• First Year Transition into Higher Education: One Student’s Experiences
• Interventions to Support Readiness, Recruitment, Access, Transition, and Retention for Postsecondary Education Success
• Supporting Students Experiencing Adjustment Problems as School Starts
• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH
• Notes on Transition Planning for College
• Online and At School: Teachers Alone Can’t and Shouldn’t Be Expected to Address the Wide Range of Student Mental Health Concerns
• Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students and Their Families
• Early College High Schools 
• What Researchers are Saying About Enhancing Early Attitudes and Readiness
• Addressing Barriers Confronting First-Generation College Students from Hispanic Families

Articles
• Transition Support for Immigrant Students
• Welcoming: Facilitating a new start at a new school.

Center Briefs
• Schools as Caring, Learning Communities
• International Students: Addressing Barriers to Successful Transition

Guidance Notes
• Addressing School Adjustment Problems
• Is the School Year Off to a Good Start?
• Kicking off the School Year with a Sense of Exciting Renewal: Generating Hope, Not Ho Hum

Guidebook
• What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families

Information Resources
• Addressing Barriers to Successful Middle School Transition
• AboutPressures on Affluent Students Related to University Admission
• Dropouts and the 9th Grade Bulge
• Enhancing Summer Learning
• Transition Supports for International Secondary School Students
• Transitions to and from Elementary, Middle, and High School
• Getting the School Year Off to a Good Start
• Transitioning from Psychiatric Hospitalization to Schools
• My Experience as a Foreign Student
• Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Transitioning to College

Newsletter
• Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support (Fall, '97)

Resource Aid Packet
• Support for Transitions: A Self-study Survey in: Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• Improving Teaching and Learning Supports by Addressing the Rhythm of a Year

Quickfind
• Enabling Component
• Transition from Adolescence
• Transition to College

Technical Assistance Sampler
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Appendix B: Support for Transitions - Readiness to Learn/Early Childhood Programs
• Appendix B: Support for Transitions - Before & After-School Programs
• Appendix B: Support for Transitions - Grade Articulation Programs
• Appendix B: Support for Transitions - Welcoming and Social Support
• Appendix B: Support for Transitions - To and From Special Education
• Appendix B: Support for Transitions - School to Career Programs

Technical Aid Packet
• Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families

Training Tutorial
• Support for Transition to Address Barriers to Learning. A brief set of resources to guide those providing an in service session. Also useful as a quick self-tutorial. (note: opens up in a new window)