TOPIC: Social Promotion/ Grade Retention

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Center Policy & Practice Analysis Briefs
• Grade Retention: What's the Prevailing Policy and What Needs to be Done?

Books and Chapters
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwid
• Best Practices in the Use of Resource Teams to Enhance Learning Supports
• School-Wide Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Student Engagement and Disengagement: An Intrinsic Motivation Perspective and a Mental Health Concern

Guides
• RTI and Classroom & Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff
• Steps and Tools to Guide Planning and Implementation of a Comprehensive System to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching

Newsletter
• Denying Social Promotion Obligates Schools to Do More to Address Barriers to Learning
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern.
• Response to Intervention

Articles
• Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences

Practice Notes and Information Resources
• About Motivation
• About School Engagement and Re-Engagement
• Addressing School Adjustment Problems
• Determinants of Students’ Problems
• Disengaged Students
• Dropouts and the 9th Grade Bulge
• Grade Retention in Elementary Schools: Policies, Practices, Results, and Proposed New Directions
• Helping and Socialization
• Engaging and Re-engaging Families When a Student is Not Doing Well
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• Improving Working Relationships Inside the Classroom
• Interviewing and Monitoring Tools
• Learning Supports: Enabling Learning in the Classroom
• Minimizing Referrals Out of the Classroom
• Prereferral Interventions
• Response to Intervention
• The Role of School and Home in Promoting Student Engagement
• School Attendance: Focusing on Engagement and Re-engagement
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use
• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Transitions to and from Elementary, Middle, and High School
• Turning Big Classes into Smaller Units
• Working with Disengaged Students

Introductory Packet
• Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities
• School Engagement, Disengagement, Learning Supports, & School Climate
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Policy Notes
• About Policy and Practice Trends for Reducing Truancy
• Matching Students and Instruction: The Dilemma of Grouping Students
• Preparing All Education Personnel to Address Barriers to Learning & Teaching
• Supports for Students Deemed At-Risk
• Teachers Can't Do it Alone!

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

• Don't Hold Back? The Effect of Grade Retention on Student Achievement
• The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion
• How the Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes: Identification and Estimation of Time-Varying Treatment Effects
• Punitive Policies: Third Grade Retention
• Repeating a Grade: The Pros and Cons
• School Counselors and Retention
• Under the Law: Grade retention and the law
• The Uneven Implementation of Universal School Policies: Maternal Education and Florida's Mandatory Grade Retention Policy
• What Does Research Say About Grade Retention? A Few Key Studies
• The Wisdom of Mandatory Grade Retention

Related Agencies and Websites

• The American Federation of Teachers
• The National Association of Elementary School Principals
• National Center for Summer Learning
• National Center on Universal Design for Learning

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