Download or read book Students and Staff Members Perceptions of an Alternative School for Disruptive Students in a Rural School Setting in North Carolina An Intrinsic Case Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was to investigate the perceptions of students and staff members regarding their experiences in an alternative learning program for disruptive students in a rural school setting. The research involved two data-gathering techniques: onsite interviews and observations. The objective was to determine (a) how students and staff in the alternative learning programs experienced schooling and what meanings they attached to these experiences, (b) what disruptive students perceived as the major impact of the alternative learning program on their self-esteem and social behavior, and (c) what staff members perceived as the major impact of the alternative learning programs on students' self-esteem and social behavior. Findings from the study were used to answer three research questions relative to the alternative education programs for disruptive students and to make recommendations for program improvements.
Download or read book Students and Staff Members Perceptions of an Alternative School for Disruptive Students in a Rural School Setting in North Carolina written by Abram Liles and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: Montessori, disruptive students, alternative, charter, safe and orderly schools.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book The North Carolina Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Program Evaluation of Alternative Schools in North Carolina written by Michael Orlando Jones and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to evaluate two alternative programs in a North Carolina (NC) and South Carolina (SC) public school district to determine if they are effective in delivering constructive interventions that modify student behavior once students have left the programs and have returned to their regular learning environments. This mixed-method evaluation consisted of an experimental-comparison design approach that included interviews with program participants, focus groups, and comparison of the number of out-of-school suspensions that participants received after completing the alternative school programs in both school districts. -- The researcher and trained interviewers administered a survey to 16 certified staff members in the NC district including the executive director and principal. A stratified random proportionate sample was used to produce functionally equivalent groups from the NC WISE database for the number of alternative school reassignments due to long-term out-of-school suspensions of African-American ninth graders who received major disciplinary infractions. -- The three research questions that guided the evaluation and their findings were (1) "What practices are contributing to students' success in the alternative program?" Data analysis in this program evaluation showed that academic and behavior interventions involving the use of alternative education counselors and case managers were significant contributors to the success of the program; (2) "To what extent is the alternative program following its design as planned?" Data showed that the program was following its design as planned but was strained by a lack of collaboration with students' home school counselors, teachers, and administrators of assigned students; and (3) "What is the effect of the alternative program on the recidivism rate?" In both years considered in this evaluation, there were no repeat offenders, thus supporting the notion that the NC alternative education setting was successful in decreasing the recidivism rate and increasing the success rate of students. -- Based on these findings, the companion investigators concluded that the NC and SC alternative education programs were effective in decreasing recidivism for African-American males and females in ninth grade and increasing student success when they returned to their home school. Findings also suggested a strong need for greater collaboration with the home schools and transference of interventions and practices. These elements were thought to be necessary by the alternative education staff in sustaining student success once the students returned to their traditional education settings. The investigators offered a professional development model outcome for the consideration of the executive staff and Board of Education members to improve the overall success of not only African-American students but students of all ethnic subgroups within both southeastern school districts.
Download or read book A Case Study Phenomenon Approach written by Jacques Thigpen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will seek to gain the impact of understanding about how black students enrolled in an alternative school program may be facing racial desegregations and discrimination. This is a phenomenon case study, which gleans the information about alternative education school programs that provide education for all students, especially black students, and it may be the holding cell for future crimes committed on the rising base on chronic behavior issues displayed in the classroom setting. Alternative Education schools play a vital role when it comes to academic learning in the Eastern part of North Carolina and a limited portion conducted in the South Carolina school district were identified.
Download or read book PERCEPTIONS OF HOW VIRTUAL LEARNING AND SEAT TIME IMPACT STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN AN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL written by Terrence McAllister and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to identify an appropriate structure to successfully serve all alternative students in an effort to increase the graduation rate and academic proficiency of the students at an alternative high school in rural Southeastern North Carolina. The following topics and subtopics will be addressed in this research: at risk, alternative learning programs/schools, high school completion, seat time, virtual learning, approaches to course credits, attendance/absences, suspension, dropouts, summary and finding, credit by mastery, results and recommendations and conclusion. The researcher addressed the following research question: To what extent, if any, did virtual learning opportunities and seat time requirements impact student performance? Quantitative research designs were used to gain insight into academic structures that serve non-traditional students. The intent of the research was to define key elements that need to occur to increase academic performance and graduation rates. Quantitative research included descriptive statistics and compilation of the data collected from the survey results. Students, parents/guardians, faculty, staff, and administrators participated in the study. Key factors that were identified in order to improve the academic performance and graduation rates for students in alternative settings were: clear mission, positive culture and climate, parent involvement, community involvement, effective leadership, professional development, aligned and focused curriculum and instruction and monitoring and assessment. Based upon this research recommendations are: the school should be a program located on the corridor of the only high school in the district, shared core values and guiding concepts that is representative of student, staff and administration, self-paced virtual online curriculum (credit by mastery) and a highly qualified staff that desire to teach at the alternative school.
Download or read book Evaluation of Alternative Schools in South Carolina written by Perry Demangio Mills and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to evaluate two alternative programs in a North Carolina and South Carolina (SC) public school district to determine if they are effective in delivering constructive interventions that modify student behavior once students have left the programs and have returned to their regular learning environments. This mixed-method evaluation consisted of an experimental-comparison design approach that included interviews with program participants, completing focus groups, and comparison of the number of out-of-school suspensions that participants received after completing the alternative school programs in both school districts. -- The researcher and trained interviewers administered a survey to 25 certified and classified staff members in the SC district, including the school administration. A stratified random proportionate sample was used to produce functionally equivalent groups from the SC school district database for the number of alternative school reassignments due to long-term out-of-school suspensions of African-American ninth-grade students who received major disciplinary infractions. -- The three research questions that guided the study and their findings were: What practices are contributing to student success in the alternative program? The questions answered in the survey along with the focus group sessions suggested that there were positive procedures at the school that contributed to the student's success who attended. To what extent is the alternative program following its design as planned? The requirements are listed in Appendix A, the Alternative School Monitoring Report. The SC district continues to operate in accordance with the State Department of Education via a mandatory evaluation of state requirements and procedures. What is the effect of the alternative program on the recidivism rate? The data in Appendix B shows the numbers and how they have decreased by each grade each year. In an end-of-year alternative school report, the administration has reported a 4-6% recidivism rate. -- Based on these findings, the companion investigators concluded that the NC and SC alternative education programs were effective in decreasing recidivism for African-American males and females in the ninth grade and increasing student success when they returned to their home school. Findings also suggested a strong need for greater collaboration with the home schools and transference of interventions and practices. These elements were thought to be necessary by the alternative education staff in sustaining student success once they returned to their regular school settings. The investigators offered a professional development model outcome for the consideration of executive staff and Board of Education members to improve the overall success of not only African-American students but students of all ethnic subgroups within both southeastern school districts.
Download or read book Student Perceptions of the Alternative School written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some students find it difficult to reach graduation in a regular secondary school setting, but may be successful in an alternative setting. Causes of not graduating could include high absenteeism and behavior problems, which may result in dropping out. This study sought student perceptions of an alternative program in a public school district in the state of Mississippi. The participants were 10 students and their parents, 10 teachers, and the administrator. Data included interviews and school documents, and were analyzed using the constant comparative method. This research found that some of the students were enthused upon receiving alternative placement. Students liked the curriculum tailored to their individual needs, more one-on-one time with the teacher, and the opportunity to focus on the changes that they needed to make to improve their educational opportunities. Some parents expressed their disappointment in their child's placement; however, there were some parents who prefer the alternative school over regular school. The parents who were disappointed thought it to be a place where they put bad kids and where the teachers were not good teachers. The parents who preferred it liked the smaller teacher-student ratio and believed that alternative teachers were more supportive and kind. The teachers expressed the alternative school does not get the same attention as other district schools and is seen as a dumping ground for both teachers and students. Recommendations to the district include: evaluate the criteria for placing students in the alternative school, increase communication between the alternative and the regular school, provide a specialist to help focus on student learning styles, provide a full-time counselor to help students deal with the issues contributing to their lack of success in the regular school, and improve the physical setting for the alternative school. Further research is needed in the district: to determine what could be improved in the alternative academic program; to determine whether the alternative school curriculum is meeting state standards; and to examine the acceptance of students and faculty in the alternative program by district students and personnel.
Download or read book The Forgotten Room written by Mary Hollowell and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: Located in a rapidly growing county in the southeastern United States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for chronically disruptive students whom regular teachers can no longer handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society has to offer. Neglect, understaffing, and overcrowding create a volatile situation. Teachers survive threats, assaults, brawls, and rampages with their teaching philosophies barely intact. This text is a teacher survival story. It examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year. It offers a glimmer of hope in the safe zones created by hardworking teachers, but it is also a cautionary tale about the consequences of bureaucrats neglecting troubled teens. Mary Hollowell's multidisciplinary book provides a rare look at public alternative schooling in America. This gritty and compelling ethnography is part of a growing movement in academia to make ethnographic studies more accessible. It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction, this text breaks down the walls between social science and literature.
Download or read book Changes in Student Outcomes Following Participation in an Alternative School Setting written by Elizabeth Jayne McFadden and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student Outcomes--Grade Point Average (GPA), Attendance Rate (ATTR), and student Expectation of Graduation (EXPGRAD)--were evaluated quantitatively through replication of Saunders and Saunders (1996), using a dual response Student Questionnaire and school records review. Student perceptions from the Previous Site Environment (PSE) and the Alternative Site Environment (ASE) were evaluated qualitatively. Two unique factors mark this study: (a) replication, and (b) design and variable definitions allowed for analysis of relationships among independent and dependent variables, beyond descriptive statistics and non-quantitative trends found in the alternative schools literature. No other replications were found in the literature review. A voluntary group of 31 students, from 11th or 12th grade, mostly female (68%), many already parents (35%), most eligible for free/reduced lunch status and enrolled in the alternative setting during the study, comprised the sample. Victory High School (VHS [pseudonym]) a rural, alternative secondary school with an average enrollment of 185 served as the study site. Both case study format and difficulties in recruitment resulted in the small N . Descriptive statistics, zero order correlations, and semipartial correlations were used to analyze the data. Sample size limited analytic possibilities. Analysis was guided by the organization of variables presented in Figure 1: three types of independent variables (demographic controls, PSE, and ASE) plus dependent measures (GPA, ATTR, and EXPGRAD). Psychometric analysis confirmed Attitudes Toward School (ATS) as a scale. Few significant correlations were found among demographic factors, PSE variables, ASE variables, and the outcomes. Most variables reflected much lower values in PSE than the ASE, including ATS, motivation, measures of behaviors, as well as 191% and 185% increase in GPA and EXPGRAD from PSE to ASE. The most prominent semipartial correlations (controlling for demographic identity) indicated significant relationships between ATS and Motivation to Work (MOTIV) in the ASE, with Expectation of Graduation. The study replicates research from Saunders and Saunders (1996) and is unique in the field, examining correlations among variables investigated.
Download or read book Transforming Alternative Education written by Dr. Lateshia Woodley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about viewing alternative education through the lens of being an alternative education student and then being a turnaround leader working with schools to transform alternative education programs. This book celebrates the successful work of many alternative schools, making a difference in the lives of students, and highlights the areas in which additional work is needed.
Download or read book The Alternative written by The students of SWAS and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from The Alternative: School Within a School: Whoever thought it was a good idea to let squirrelly adolescents design their own curriculum wasnt completely nuts. Much to everyones surprise at Drake, some of us managed to get rather conventional educations at SWAS. I studied Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry [which] taught me enough Calculus to pass the AP math test. I no longer wanted to stand out in a crowd; I needed to belong to one. SWAS was exactly that a crowd of unique people. There is no doubt that the project trips provided the most important teaching/learning experiences - and not always in lessons we intended. Yet it somehow never occurred to me at the timethe teachers not only put up with it but seemed to enjoy it. The tap dancing, the hammering, the constant painting, the tree-climbing: they didnt just put up with it, it seems they encouraged and delighted in it. They believed our energy and enthusiasm were essential to our learning. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about SWAS was the ability of the program to teach at once the importance and value of community, while at the same time helping students gain the personal strength to be individuals. Before there was Restorative Justice, SWAS had the Grievance Committee; before anyone ever spoke the word Mindfulness, Paul Ehrlich and I taught yoga to the whole school; before anyone touted Project-Based Learning, we had semester-long project groups; before the emphasis on building students self-esteem, we had weekly Support Groups; and before any focus on Academies or the Small Schools Movement, we had ... SWAS.
Download or read book A Case Study of Student and Leadership Team Perceptions of A Metro Atlanta Alternative School Program Selected Educational Factors which Impact Student Achievement as Measured by High School Completion written by Jacinta Nataki Toliver and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Report of the Governor s Task Force to Study Alternative Educational Programs for Chronically Disruptive Students written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Perceptions of Administrators and Teachers Regarding Features of Alternative Schools in Georgia written by Leslie McAffee and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceptions of Students of Color About Their Experience in an Alternative High School written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public schools in Oregon have been struggling to include students of color and teachers of color for so long. Students of color represent more than one third of the school population, yet remain underserved, underrepresented, and over disciplined. Most of their teachers and support staff are White; the teachers of color represent less than 8% of the teaching staff. The students of color attend comprehensive high schools that generally ignore them--or push them out. Some students of color end up in alternative schools. My problem of practice was the oppression of students of color in urban schools. Specifically, my research problem focused on their experiences in an alternative high school. The purpose of my study was to describe and explain the perceptions of students of color about their experiences in that alternative high school. Using a critical race framework and phenomenological inquiry, I conducted nine interviews with three students of color who consented to a three-interview series in one month. Data analysis led to the identification of four themes: learning in an alternative school; welcoming and accommodating environment; lived experiences in alternative school, and absence of dominant discourse. My findings aligned with the tenets of critical race theory as they show that students of color were not welcome in the education system; they also reflected the findings evident in the research literature. My study revealed that schools should not focus on contents only, but should also use content to teach for diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.
