TOPIC: Dropout Prevention

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Books and Chapters
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Improving School Improvement
• Mapping a School's Resources to Improve Their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems
• New Directions for Student Support: Some Fundamentals
• Revisiting learning & behavior problems: Moving schools forward
• Student Engagement and Disengagement: An Intrinsic Motivation Perspective and a Mental Health Concern

Introductory Packet
• Dropout Prevention
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Guidance and Policy Notes
• Addressing School Adjustment Problems
• Disengaged Students
• Dropout Prevention
• Engaging and Re-engaging Families When a Student is Not Doing Well
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• Implementing Response to Intervention in Context
• Improving Working Relationships Inside the Classroom
• Learning Supports: Enabling Learning in the Classroom
• Minimizing Referrals Out of the Classroom
• Prereferral Interventions
• Response to Intervention
• School Attendance: Focusing on Engagement and Re-engagement
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use
• Supports for Students Deemed At-Risk
• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Turning Big Classes into Smaller Units
• Volunteers as an Invaluable Resource
• Working with Disengaged Students
• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools

Newsletter
• Concerns = Opportunities: Addressing Student Disengagement, Acting Out, and Dropouts by Moving in New Directions
• Re-Engaging Students in Learning at School
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative

Quick Training Aids
• Case Management in the School Context
• Re-Engaging Students in Learning

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
• A Center Policy & Practice Analysis Brief: Dropout Prevention: Do Districts Pursue Best Practice Recommendations?
• A Center Policy & Practice Analysis Brief: School Attendance Problems: Are Current Policies & Practices Going in the Right Direction?

Fact & Information Resources
• About School Engagement and Re-Engagement
• Defining Multiple Pathways for High School Graduation
• Dropouts and the 9th Grade Bulge
• Enhancing Classroom Teachers? Capacity to Successfully Engage All Students in Learning: It?s the Foundation of Learning Supports

Technical Aid Packet
• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care
• School Engagement, Disengagement, Learning Supports, & School Climate
• Volunteers to Help Teachers and Schools Address Barriers to Learning

Quick Find
• School Avoidance

Articles
• Building comprehensive, multifaceted, and integrated approaches to address barrriers to student learning
• Moving Prevention From the Fringes into the Fabric of School Improvement
• Personalizing Classroom Instruction To Account For Motivational and Developmental Difference
• School Dropout Prevention: A Public Health Role for Primary Health Care Providers

Guides
• RTI and Classroom & Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff

• About Dropout Prevention and Recovery
• Adolescent Social Inclusion to Improve School Completion
• Are America’s rising high school graduation rates real—or just an accountability-fueled mirage?
• Building a Comprehensive System to Support All Students Getting to High School Graduation and Beyond
• Burned out to drop out: Exploring the relationship between school burnout and school dropout
• Dropout Prevention in Middle and High Schools: From Research to Practice
• Effective Strategies
• Everyone Graduates
• Factors that Promote High School Graduation: A Review of the Literature
• How to End the Dropout Crisis: Proven Strategies for Keeping Kids in School.
• How New Outreach Programs are Bringing Dropouts Back to Public School Classrooms
• Implementation of a Predictive Information System for University Dropout Prevention
• Longitudinal Examination of Aggression and Study Skills from Middle to High School: Implications for Dropout Pevention
• More high schoolers are off track to graduate. Here’s how schools can help
• Negative teacher-student and student-student relationships are associated with school dropout: Evidence from a large-scale longitudinal study in Chile
• Plans for Dropout Prevention and Special School Support Services for American Indian and Alaska Native Students
• Predicting Student-Teachers Dropout Risk and Early Identification: A Four-Step Logistic Regression Approach
• Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools Practice Guide
• The Real Truth about Low Graduation Rates, An Evidence-Based Commentary
• Recommendations for Creating K-16 Pathways for All Students
• Reconnecting Youth: Promoting Emotional Competence and Social Support to Improve Academic Achievement
• Reducing High School Drop-Out through Elementary School Student Support
• The Rural Dropout Problems: An Invisible Achievement Gap
• School Disorder and Dropping Out: The Intersection of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
• Sociodemographic risk, school engagement, and community characteristics: A mediated approach to understanding high school dropout
Video Clips
• National Dropout Prevention: Solutions to Dropout Crisis

Related Agencies and Websites

• Alternative Schools Network
• America's Promise Alliance
• Intercultural Development Research Association
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Universal Design for Learning
• National Dropout Prevention Center
• What Works Clearinghouse

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