This article describes a program developed at the University of Georgia aimed at increasing teacher competency in secondary transitional programing for students with disabilities and reports on participant teachers' (n=22) implementation efforts. Extent of implementation, factors affecting implementation, and the perceived value of the training…

Notes that student affairs and academic affairs work closely together through the services of the CAPS (Counseling, Advising, and Placement Services) Center at Kennesaw State College (Georgia) for benefit of students. Describes New Student Experience, aimed at easing new students' transition into college, as one of CAPS programs that very…

Highlights problems of student immigrants and potential value of transition support groups for addressing these problems. Describes approach using group format for helping students from other countries make transition into new school and community. Suggests need to clarify factors causing immigrant students to drop out and to determine whether…

Provides a description and an evaluation of a transitional academic program designed to address non-native English-speaking students' language and learning needs as well as to help them integrate into the university. Notes that the program's success is reflected not only in strong student improvement, but in the collaboration of many university…

Describes a process of training for a transition economy in Uzbekistan. Looks at the problems encountered and offers keys to successful transition training. (JOW)

Describes the Peer-Assisted Learning System (PALS) program at Merced High School. PALS was designed to facilitate the transition of disabled students returning to their home schools by pairing them with peers who served as instructors, friends, advocates, and decision makers in several arenas of school life. (Author/MKA)

Discusses Project RENEW, a program designed to help facilitate successful transitions for youth aged 16-21 who have been referred as having a serious emotional disturbance or mental illness. This program utilizes a personal futures planning process to help youth identify education, employment, and relationship goals. (Author/MKA)

This article describes the use of a transition portfolio to help a student with severe, multiple disabilities make the transition from middle school to high school. It describes the information gathering process and desirable portfolio components including personal and medical information, positioning, educational programming, adaptations and…

Describes the Kindergarten Transition Project at the National Center for Early Development and Learning, a school-based program designed to enhance connections among children, teachers, families and peers during kindergarten transition. Discusses program activities intended to increase familiarity with elementary school, provide consistent…

Highlights the ways in which immigrant children from the Chinese mainland are helped to assimilate into Hong Kong society. Discusses programs to meet the challenges of securing age-appropriate school placements; adjusting to a new education system and curricula; adapting to a new school and social environment; facing segregation, prejudice, and…

An extension program, Building Nebraska Families, works with Employment First families, Nebraska's welfare reform program, to teach family management and life skills using an individualized, flexible curriculum to help families make successful transitions from welfare to work. Evaluation strategies include an entry/exit behavior checklist and…

The Best Practices Projects was conducted in three high schools to determine factors that enhanced or impeded student involvement in transition planning process. In one school, a core team of special, vocational, and academic educators enhanced involvement practices, enabling systemic change to occur. (Author/JOW)

Describes a transition process at Susquehanna University designed to help its new president adjust to the institution. Discusses the transition committee's efforts, including formation of a schedule for the new president, sharing of institutional information, and planning various meetings with important constituencies. Includes sidebars on useful…

The success of any program for youth relies on program integrity. This requires that the program is delivered as planned on a daily basis. Many factors converge on this equation. This article outlines initial development and components of a comprehensive treatment program grounded in the principles of Aggression Replacement Training.

Educators in the US are becoming increasingly focused on the idea of early colleges, by which high-school students take college courses at postsecondary institutions to improve their educational experience. Early colleges can be a strong alternative for some students under 18 because they employ many of the approaches to liberal-arts education…