Download or read book Confronting Challenges and Engaging Success Ninth grade Academies written by Yolonda L. Sneed and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Too many freshman students struggle during their first year in high school, which can result in their dropping out of school. Ninth grade academies, in which ninth grade students are clustered together for one year, have been one way high schools have sought to support students’ success. Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative mean comparison study was to compare academic achievement at one high school with a ninth-grade academy to a similar school in the same district that does not have a ninth grade academy. Methods: The study used a series of independent samples t test to compare ninth grade students’ average test scores for Algebra I, Biology I, and English I between the two similar campuses over the span of five years. Findings: The schools had similar performance in Algebra for all five years. In Biology, the school with the ninth grade academy outperformed the traditional high school all five years and significantly outperformed the traditional high school in four out of the five years. In English I, the school with the ninth grade academy significantly outperformed the traditional high school all five years since 2013. There was a trend of steady increases over the five-year period, but no increasing in the difference in the scale scores between the two schools for English I. Conclusion: There were significant differences in the mean scores between the two schools over a five year period with the school that implemented the ninth grade academy scoring higher in most years, for most of the subjects. However, the data suggest that the extent to which the ninth grade academy impacted scores on state testing was moderate. The gap in performance between the two schools remained unchanged over a five-year period.
Download or read book The Ninth Grade Opportunity written by Scott Habeeb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country, high school freshmen have the highest rates of failure, discipline problems, and truancy. Defined as the "make it or break it" year, ninth grade can be a trying time for teenagers learning to make their own way in the world. The Ninth Grade Opportunity provides educators with a useful framework to build and implement a team-based Freshman Transition program, ultimately allowing teachers to play an integral role in ensuring every student's success. Scott Habeeb, Ray Moore and Alan Seibert have over 60 years of combined experience as teachers and administrators, and together have compiled a guidebook centered around a teaming approach that empowers teachers to better meet freshmen needs. Based on concepts behind their popular Freshman Transition workshops, the authors share ideas about why and how teaming teachers works and how it can benefit schools. Road maps provide guidance for teachers to learn specifically how to create a program built around key elements such as: Standardized expectations Learning skills Classroom leadership Parent/teacher contact Educators everywhere will benefit from the practical advice, expert insight, and helpful tips that transform the ninth grade problem into The Ninth Grade Opportunity, ensuring a successful transition for every high school student.
Download or read book Continuous Improvement in High Schools written by Martha Abele Mac Iver and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuous Improvement in High Schools gives educators and policymakers an accessible, actionable framework to address one of the nation's most important educational priorities: improving high school graduation and postsecondary preparedness rates. Martha Abele Mac Iver and Robert Balfanz, national experts in dropout prevention, apply the Carnegie Foundation’s continuous improvement framework to the issue of student success in high school, starting with the critical ninth-grade year. A proven tool for organizational change, the framework provides a systematic structure for examining the root causes of problems and testing possible solutions. Mac Iver and Balfanz draw on their decades of experience working with educators and their deep knowledge of challenges faced by high schools to customize the framework to the high school context. They model the use of improvement science principles such as establishing practical measures, conducting disciplined inquiry, and accelerating learning through networked communities. With real-world examples and ideas for change, the authors show how attention to five key areas can enrich student educational experience and improve high school outcomes. These areas are early warning and intervention systems; family engagement; students’ sense of connectedness to school; social, emotional, and academic development; and teacher instructional practices. The guidance offered in this useful work will enable educators and their collaborating partners to create their own powerful solutions for student success.
Download or read book Mission Possible written by Eva Moskowitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies for making the schools we need that work for all kids Eva Moskowitz (the founder and CEO of the Success Charter Network in Harlem) and Arin Lavinia offer practical, classroom-tested ideas for dramatically improving teaching and learning. Moskowitz and Lavinia reveal how a charter school in the middle of Harlem, enrolling neighborhood children selected at random, emerged as one of the top schools in New York City and State within three years. The results of the Harlem school were on a par with public schools for gifted students and elite private schools. Describes what can be accomplished when students and adults all work to focus on constant learning and performance improvement; DVD clips can be accessed using a special link included in the book. The Success Academies have been featured in two popular and widely distributed documentaries, Waiting for Superman and The Lottery Details the Success Academies' THINK Literacy curriculum, which produces dramatic results in student's reading and writing skills In addition to providing strategies and lessons for school leaders and teachers, Secrets of the Success Academies also serves as a guide for parents, policymakers, and practitioners who are passionate about closing the academic achievement gap.
Download or read book Leadership Challenges in High Schools written by W. Norton Grubb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principals are responsible for an increasing range of duties in an era of school reform, standardized testing, and more. These responsibilities are even greater in high schools, which are many times larger and more complex than elementary and middle schools. Yet little has been written on the special challenges of high schools and their leadership. This book fills the gap by exploring the challenges specific to high schools, including their size and complexity, the special difficulties in improving instruction, the crucial role of high schools for students' futures, adolescent behavioral issues, and many more. Grubb shows how principals and other leaders can address the complexities of multiple pathways, or efforts to create theme-based trajectories through high school - one of the most promising high school reforms. Looking to the future, he offers alternative ways of preparing professionals for high schools, and the responsibilities of districts for improving high schools and their leadership.
Download or read book Helping Students Make the Transition Into High School written by Marie-Andrě Somers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninth Grade Academies (NGAs)--also called Freshman Academies--have attracted national attention as a particularly intensive and promising approach for supporting a successful transition for high school freshmen. An NGA is a self-contained learning community for ninth-graders that operates as a school within a school. NGAs have four core structural components: (1) a designated separate space within the high school, (2) a ninth-grade administrator who oversees the academy, (3) a faculty assigned to teach only ninth-grade students, and (4) teachers organized into interdisciplinary teams that have both students and a planning period in common. The theory of action behind NGAs is that when these components are employed together, they interact to create a more personalized learning environment where ninth-grade students feel less anonymous and more individually supported. This, in turn, should help students succeed in school and stay on track to high school graduation. NGAs have shown promising results when employed as part of a whole-school reform model, but in these cases schools have received external support from a developer to create and sustain them. A growing number of schools and districts have been experimenting with NGAs on their own, but the little research that exists on their effectiveness is limited to anecdotal accounts. This study, which is based on a quasi-experimental research design, examines the effect of NGAs on students' progress toward graduation, their academic achievement, and their behavior in several school districts in Florida. The sample for this study includes 27 high schools that created NGAs between 2001-2002 and 2006-2007, along with 16 comparison high schools that serve ninth-grade students with similar characteristics as students in the NGA schools. As context for understanding the impact findings, this study also looks at the extent to which the key features of the NGA model were implemented in the NGA schools in the study and how this differs from the structures and supports in the comparison schools. The key finding is that the NGAs in this study do not appear to have improved students' academic or behavioral outcomes (credit earning, state test scores, course marks, attendance, suspensions, or expulsions). The findings also suggest that it can be difficult for schools to fully implement the components of the NGA model without expert assistance: Three years after their creation, only half the NGAs in the study had all four structural components of the model in place. Nationally, school districts continue to create NGAs, and recent efforts to implement them have incorporated various enhancements that are intended to strengthen and improve their implementation, but little is known about their effectiveness. Because students' experience in ninth grade is an important predictor of their future success, these efforts to create and improve NGAs should be examined in future studies. Appended are: (1) Technical Information; and (2) Beyond the Sunshine State: Ninth Grade Academies in Other School Districts. ["Helping Students Make the Transition into High School: The Effect of Ninth Grade Academies on Students' Academic and Behavioral Outcomes" was written with Janet Quint.].
Download or read book Confronting the Crisis of Engagement written by Douglas Reeves and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop apathy in its tracks with the 5 C’s of engagement Disengagement, disenchantment, distress—the three "D’s" of many post-pandemic schools. If we are to find our way back from this brink, every student, teacher, and leader must relearn how to lean in. It’s time to focus, know one another, and stop chasing so many initiatives. It’s time to shake things up so learners want to participate. From faculty meetings to student conferences, casual greetings to grading, you can learn to use practices that most powerfully reflect the Five C’s of Engagement: Connections — feeling known, valued, and tethered to others Conditions — being able to learn in a stable environment in which expectations are high Challenge — engaging in an endeavor knowing your "high jumps" in terms of intellectual and creative risks will be supported Control — the privilege of learning with a balance between ownership and support Collaboration — deepening one’s knowledge and identity as a learner by being skillful at relationship-building Our students are looking to us as the grownups in the room to model what it looks like to belong, believe, and balance high expectations with compassionate support. With Confronting the Crisis of Engagement in hand, you have the guide to make that happen.
Download or read book The Insider s Guide to High School written by Tim Healey and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth grade year is a critical juncture in a student¿s academic and social development. It is also a critical and difficult period for parents, as they must learn to approach their ¿children¿ as teenagers ¿ while still maintaining the necessary control and guidance to ensure their teenager¿s directed growth and success. In The Insider¿s Guide to High School, two veteran principals, Tim Healey & Alex Carter, with almost 40 years of combined experience as secondary educators, provide parents with an insider¿s view on how to best prepare, support, and coach their rising ninth graders. In this very approachable and honest book, the authors lay out six steps parents should take to prepare their ninth grade student for success in today¿s high school classroom. Using these steps, the book helps parents and their teenager develop a plan for success, improve communication, and learn to work together for a common goal. As an added bonus, these successful school leaders offer insider¿s advice on how parents can best support their child should they encounter some of the more difficult challenges of high school, such as poor grades, a ¿bad¿ teacher, and even a trip to the principal¿s office. Designed to provide real-world advice and support to those who are preparing to enter the world of high school alongside their child, The Insider¿s Guide to High School is a must read for all new high school parents.
Download or read book Leadership Challenges in High Schools written by W. Norton Grubb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principals are responsible for an increasing range of duties in an era of school reform, standardized testing, and more. These responsibilities are even greater in high schools, which are many times larger and more complex than elementary and middle schools. Yet little has been written on the special challenges of high schools and their leadership. This book fills the gap by exploring the challenges specific to high schools, including their size and complexity, the special difficulties in improving instruction, the crucial role of high schools for students' futures, adolescent behavioral issues, and many more. Grubb shows how principals and other leaders can address the complexities of multiple pathways, or efforts to create theme-based trajectories through high school - one of the most promising high school reforms. Looking to the future, he offers alternative ways of preparing professionals for high schools, and the responsibilities of districts for improving high schools and their leadership.
Download or read book Implications and Perceptions of Students and Teachers Participating in Two Ninth Grade Success Academies During the Year of Implementation written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Student Outcomes of Ninth Grade Academies and Traditional High Schools written by Heather Renee McMahan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to high school presents many trials for students, from changing academic structures, to emotional and social adjustments, and even the size and location of the school. Students are facing a substantial number of obstacles their freshman year. These challenges in resiliency can often make or break a ninth grader and determine his/her path to graduation. A successful ninth grade year sets a student up for success ahead of a peer who may have failed ninth grade. The physical location of where a student receives the ninth grade education may impact the academic outcome. Ninth grade students have been shown to need support and care in a different manner than all other grade levels. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student academic outcomes and the physical location in which ninth grade instruction was delivered. This study analyzed ninth grade academies and traditional four-year campuses to determine whether physical location of the ninth grade year had any impact on the student outcomes of attendance rates, percent of students who received AP credit based on Advanced Placement (AP) exam success, type of graduation plan, percent of students at/above criterion SAT/ACT scores of 1110 on the SAT critical reading and mathematics sections combined, or 24 on the ACT composite, graduation rates by campus and graduates in TX institutions of higher education (IHE) completing one year without remediation. The study included schools from the state of Texas, varying in size and demographics. The findings within this study may guide districts as they configure campuses in the future. Using a repeated measures design, this study collected student achievement data from a cohort of students from both ninth grade centers and traditional four-year high schools. This study provided an analysis between the two grade configurations when considering attendance, graduation rate, percent of students who received credit based on Advanced Placement (AP) exam success, type of graduation plan, percent of students at/above criterion SAT/ACT scores of 1110 on the SAT critical reading and mathematics sections combined, or 24 on the ACT composite, and student performance in the first year of college. The study found that there was no relationship between the student outcomes of students who began on a ninth-grade campus only and those who started high school at a four-year traditional high school. Although no significant difference was found between the wo organizational structures based on academic outcomes at the end of high school, additional research is needed to determine if outcomes are different at the end of the ninth grade year.
Download or read book The Correlation Between Ninth Grade Academies in Comprehensive High Schools and Student Performance written by Fateama S. Fulmore and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninth Grade Academies have been implemented in urban school districts across the United States to mitigate ongoing challenges with the ninth grade transition to high school. Research has unequivocally portrayed ninth grade as the most significant grade to the successful completion of high school. Historically, educational discourse about high schools has focused on alarming high school dropout rates and retentions in the ninth grade. However, an evolving body of research that suggests a strategic approach to the ninth grade transition, such as ninth grade academies, results in promising academic and behavioral student outcomes. This quantitative causal comparative study examined the correlation between ninth grade academies in the School District of Philadelphia’s comprehensive high schools and first-time ninth-grade student performance (as measured by the on-track rate, 95%+ attendance rate, and zero out-of-school suspension rate). This study further assessed whether students in comprehensive high schools with ninth grade academies showed a statistically significant difference in performance compared to students in high schools without ninth grade academies. The study sample population consisted of N=8; four comprehensive high schools and four special admission high schools across three different student cohorts and a total of 1,763 students from the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years. Quantitative analysis of the descriptive and inferential statistics indicated no statistically significant relationship between ninth grade academies and student performance.
Download or read book Creating a Ninth Grade Success Academy written by William F. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a program designed to help at-risk urban ninth graders make successful transitions to high school.
Download or read book Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society. Despite their linguistic, cognitive, and social potential, many ELsâ€"who account for more than 9 percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in U.S. schoolsâ€"are struggling to meet the requirements for academic success, and their prospects for success in postsecondary education and in the workforce are jeopardized as a result. Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures examines how evidence based on research relevant to the development of DLLs/ELs from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related practices that can result in better educational outcomes. This report makes recommendations for policy, practice, and research and data collection focused on addressing the challenges in caring for and educating DLLs/ELs from birth to grade 12.
Download or read book Ninth Grade Academies as a Restructuring Effort written by Mattison Burch Maynor and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Student s Perspectives on Whether Participation in a Ninth Grade Academy Can Have an Effect on Student Success written by Joseph J. Child and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Health in Schools written by Howard S. Adelman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many children, schools are the main or only providers of mental health services. In this visionary and comprehensive book, two nationally known experts describe a new approach to school-based mental health—one that better serves students, maximizes resources, and promotes academic performance. The authors describe how educators can effectively coordinate internal and external resources to support a healthy school environment and help at-risk students overcome barriers to learning. School leaders, psychologists, counselors, and policy makers will find essential guidance, including: • An overview of the history and current state of school mental health programs, discussing major issues confronting the field • Strategies for effective school-based initiatives, including addressing behavior issues, introducing classroom-based activities, and coordinating with community resources • A call to action for higher-quality mental health programming across public schools—including how collaboration, research, and advocacy can make a difference Gain the knowledge you need to develop or improve your school's mental health program to better serve both the academic and mental health needs of your students!
