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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
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
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
DeRaad, Carolyn G., Ed. – 1997
This guidebook is intended for use by charter school planning groups as they prepare their applications to create a charter school in Colorado. It is also intended to guide charter school groups that have already implemented a program. It covers essential components of the charter school application and includes examples from existing charters.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education
Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh – New Leaders for Tomorrow's Schools, 1997
Over the past few years, charter schools have received dramatic popular support. An overview of charter schools, including the arguments of their supporters and critics, is presented in this report. The text presents assumptions about the charter movement and discusses their strengths and weaknesses through a research-based synthesis. Advocates of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Criticism, Debate
Ley, Joyce – 1999
This workbook is part of a series devoted to all areas of charter-school development. The third of five workbooks, it focuses on assessment and accountability and examines such issues as academic accountability, fiscal accountability, public/parental accountability, rule compliance, assessment and evaluation, financial management, developing a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Ley, Joyce – 1999
This workbook is part of a series devoted to all areas of charter-school development. Fourth in the series, this volume focuses on governance and management, with an emphasis on creating an organizational structure, establishing strong leadership, handling personnel issues, creating a board and board bylaws, managing growth, and dealing with…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Millot, Marc Dean; Lake, Robin J. – 1996
This report is a general guide for people planning a charter school. In September 1995 the Program on Reinventing Public Education, a collaborative effort of the University of Washington's Institute for Public Policy and Management and the RAND Institute for Education and Training, sponsored a workshop on charter school startup. This report…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education