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Download full textChristian, Cinda; Williams, Holly – Online Submission, 2021
The Austin Independent School District (AISD) offered several academic summer programs to students June through August 2021. These programs offered students opportunities to accelerate their learning, recover academic course credits, and support grade level transition. Although AISD offered a variety of summer programs in 2021, this report focuses…
Descriptors: School Districts, Summer Programs, Acceleration (Education), Credits
Peer reviewedMerlone, Lynn; Moran, Dolores – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2008
Fifth grade students with learning disabilities receive a ten-week unit on learning styles and the special education process as part of their transition to the middle school. Developed by a learning center teacher and guidance counselor, the program is derived from the literature on self-determination and from the work of Mel Levine. The…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Coping, Self Advocacy, Grade 5
Direct linkGeorge, Marshall A.; Breslin, Mary Claire; Evans, William – Principal Leadership, 2007
Although the transition from elementary school to middle school can be an exciting time for students, it can also be vexing and traumatic. Often, when parents drop off their children at middle school on the first day of school, the scene is reminiscent of the first day of school for kindergarteners and their parents. At Albert Leonard Middle…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, School Orientation
Druckman, Rosanne – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
The diverse higher education members of the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education independently partner with the Hartford Public Schools and deliver more than forty programs in the schools. These programs are varied and include such areas as college access, professional development for teachers, technology initiatives, tutoring, and science…
Descriptors: Consortia, Grade 5, Access to Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Akos, Patrick; Martin, Megan – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2003
School counselors can use groups as an effective and efficient means of helping students. Psychoeducational groups provide information and build skills to help prepare students for developmental tasks. As students complete elementary school, these preadolescents face the challenging tasks of moving to middle school and beginning puberty. School…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Peer Influence, Puberty, Developmental Tasks
Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2009
Austin Independent School District served more than 13,000 students in summer programs during 2009, providing opportunities for accelerated learning, maintenance of academic skills between school years, course credit recovery, state achievement tests, or school-level transition activities. This report summarizes this information.
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Summer Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, English Language Learners
