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Thomas Arnett – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2024
Seismic shifts are shaking the landscape of K-12 education. Public school districts across the US have lost over a million students since 2020. Meanwhile, novel educational models--such as microschools and hybrid homeschooling--have more than doubled their enrollments. This paper explores what's driving families to seek these new learning…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Small Schools, School Choice
Grasley-Boy, Nicolette M.; Reichow, Brian; van Dijk, Wilhelmina; Gage, Nicholas – Behavioral Disorders, 2021
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a multitiered system of support for behavior used in many schools across the world. Researchers have begun adapting and evaluating Tier 1 of PBIS for students placed in alternative education (AE) settings. The purpose of this review is to synthesize these evaluations. We systematically…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Program Implementation
Minkos, Marlena L.; Winter, Emily L.; Trudel, Sierra M. – Journal of Special Education, 2023
Alternative education (AE) settings support students with significant social-emotional and behavioral needs. Such settings often implement individualized programming; however, this presents challenges with staffing resources and training. Application of systems to address behavior on a schoolwide level could simplify training, increase staffing…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Modification, Nontraditional Education, Program Implementation
Caitlin J. Criss; Moira Konrad; Sheila R. Alber-Morgan; Matthew E. Brock; Angie B. Harris – Behavioral Disorders, 2024
Although evidence-based practices for improving academic engagement for students with emotional and/or behavioral disorders (EBD) have been identified, many teachers do not implement these practices with optimal fidelity. Thus, effective strategies are needed to improve teacher fidelity. Performance feedback is an effective professional…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Students with Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders
Perryman, Kristi L.; Popejoy, Erin Kern; Conroy, Julia – Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation, 2020
This study examined the lived experience of teachers and mental health paraprofessionals implementing the Jesse Lewis Choose Love curriculum in an alternative school setting. Social emotional learning curriculum implementation within the unique structure of alternative schools is important to investigate in order to better understand the unique…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Special Schools, Mental Health, Paraprofessional Personnel
Zhang, Ling; Yang, Sohyun; Carter, Richard Allen, Jr. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020
The passage of the 2015, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), affords states funding for many new options to address the needs of learners. One of the prominent options is personalized learning (PL). This study sought to determine how states positioned PL in their state plans. This study used a qualitative research design to analyze state ESSA plans…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Individualized Instruction
Gelbar, Nicholas W.; Jaffery, Rose; Stein, Ravit; Cymbala, Heather – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2015
School-wide positive behavior interventions and supports (SW-PBIS) can effectively reduce problem behaviors and simultaneously increase pro-social behaviors in general education settings. SW-PBIS is not a "packaged" intervention, but a framework through which schools create systemic changes for promoting expected behaviors, while also…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Program Implementation, Positive Behavior Supports, Behavior Modification
Andress, Blair J. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Each day, in schools across America, teachers willingly embrace the often daunting task of educating the nation's youth. Students who share little more than a common birth year are placed together with a teacher who is expected to take them from wherever they happen to be academically at the beginning of the year to where they simply must be by…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Nontraditional Education, Nontraditional Students
Reeves, Dawn E. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This research is a qualitative, reflective case study regarding a cohort in the form of a district-university partnership between the Oak Park Schools in Oak Park, Michigan and the College of Education at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The initiators of the program envisioned a more successful urban school district by offering…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, School Districts, Universities
Friedlaender, Diane; Beckham, Kyle; Zheng, Xinhua; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2015
This report documents the practices and outcomes of Alice Birney, a public K-8 Waldorf-Inspired School in Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD). This study highlights how such a school addresses students' academic, social, emotional, physical, and creative development. Birney students outperform similar students in SCUSD on several…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Educational Research
Cornell, Dewey G.; Allen, Korrie; Fan, Xitao – School Psychology Review, 2012
This randomized controlled study examined disciplinary outcomes for 201 students who made threats of violence at school. The students attended 40 schools randomly assigned to use the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines or follow a business-as-usual disciplinary approach in a control group. Logistic regression analyses found, after…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Guidelines, Discipline, Violence
Ennis, Robin Parks; Harris, Karen R.; Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Mason, Linda H. – Behavioral Disorders, 2014
Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) is an evidence-based intervention for use with students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). To date, there are nine studies investigating SRSD in alternative education settings, including self-contained day and residential schools, with 113 students with EBD in grades 3 through 12. A brief…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Behavior Disorders, Self Management, Change Strategies
Rhea, Anisa – Wake County Public School System, 2010
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) alternative educational options. The WCPSS options are similar to those in other North Carolina districts. WCPSS student outcomes based on state assessments and federal standards are also equivalent or higher than other districts, although the capacity for WCPSS…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Nontraditional Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Benefits
Unlu, Fatih; Yamaguchi, Ryoko; Bernstein, Larry; Edmunds, Julie – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
This paper addresses methodological issues arising from an experimental study of North Carolina's Early College High School Initiative, a four-year longitudinal experimental study funded by Institute for Education Sciences. North Carolina implemented the Early College High School (ECHS) Initiative in response to low high school graduation rates.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Course Selection (Students)
Giles, David, Ed. – Education Law Center, 2008
This manual is designed to help advocates, including parents, obtain special education for children with disabilities residing in New Jersey. It explains the requirements of the federal statute governing special education--the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)--and the federal regulations implementing IDEA, as well as the state…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Civil Rights, Laws, Disabilities
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