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Library Resources by Series: "Effective Strategies for School Improvement Series"



Total number of Library Resources: 8
  • Research-Based Remedial Reading Strategies for Teens (2011)
    This booklet provides the basis for an understanding of the core components of remedial reading instruction, methods for evaluating adolescents reading skills and abilities, and reading resources that can be used by a teacher.
  • Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and Dropout Prevention (2010)
    This thorough presentation of the PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) model provides educators with a systemic approach to dropout prevention. In addition, results from implementation in several New Hampshire high schools illustrate its strengths.
  • Building Authentic Relationships with Youth at Risk (2010)
    Authentic relationships between students and educators are important in the process of learning. Building these relationships with disengaged or at-risk students can be difficult at best. This monograph presents an overview of an approach to building authentic relationships based on the experience, insights, and educational background of the author, who is both a principal and a clinical social worker. Building trust as a means to...
  • Beyond the Bully Pulpit: The Mayor's Role in Dropout Prevention (2010)
    Learn how elected officials, in particular mayors, can be engaged in dropout prevention and what school officials and citizens can do to engage their elected officials.
  • Improving Reading for Academic Success: Strategies for Enhancing Adolescent Literacy (2009)
    If your students can't read, they cannot learn science, math, or history and are more likely to become dropouts. With this latest publication, educators at the middle and high school levels will learn techniques to assist their struggling readers in learning important reading skills, no matter what these educators teach.
  • High Performance Workforce and the At-Risk Student, (The) (2006)
    A growing phenomenon is the changing needs of the workplace, with employers throughout the country calling for employees to be better prepared. The author of this booklet recognizes that the dropout situation impacts our economic challenges and provides examples of successful approaches to meeting the educational needs of at-risk students so they can become part of the high-performance workforce.
  • Strategies for Adolescence: Turning it Around for Middle-School Students (2004)
    Entering adolescence presents a whole array of issues that counselors can confront on behalf of all students who could easily become at risk. This monograph focuses on five major areas where schools have witnessed an increase in occurrence with middle school youth: school violence, bullying, depression, substance abuse, and truancy. [author]
  • Creating a Sense of Place and Belonging: How to Meet the Emotional Needs of K-12 Students (2004)
    According to the authors, there are a variety of teaching strategies or interventions available for helping students develop a more positive cultural perspective of their school, to which they refer as "as sense of place". To create such places of belonging where students fit in, the authors promote an ecological systems approach. Attention is devoted to the seven information sources comprising this system and an understanding of how...