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Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
This playbook provides ways in which Principals and their teams can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. Principals play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" focusing on Unlocking Career Success within their schools.
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Success, Leadership Responsibility
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Dixon, Roselyn M.; Tanner, Kathleen – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2013
Adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS) are increasingly being placed in academically focused high schools. These students, although academically able, may not be coping with the wider classroom and social demands of transition to, and within, the high school environment. Schools are keen to enroll these students. However, there appears to be a…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Inclusion, High Schools, High School Students
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Channon, Sue; Marsh, Karen; Jenkins, Amy; Robling, Mike – Pastoral Care in Education, 2013
This paper reports on a peer support programme founded on the principles of Motivational Interviewing, a counselling method with a focus on exploring and helping to resolve ambivalence about behaviour change. Working with the staff and pupils of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr in South Wales UK, (referred to as Plasmawr) this work incorporated a…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Motivation, Interviews, High Schools
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Ellerbrock, Cheryl R.; Kiefer, Sarah M. – High School Journal, 2013
Understanding the developmental responsiveness of secondary school environments may be an important factor in supporting students as they make the transition from one school to the next. Students' needs may or may not be met depending on the nature of the fit between their basic and developmental needs and secondary school structures at the middle…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Transitional Programs, High Schools
National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth, 2018
This paper was written in 2018 by NCWD/Youth [National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth] to inform the development of the Guideposts for Success 2.0, an update to the original Guideposts for Success published in 2005. Since it was created in 2005, the Guideposts for Success has become nationally recognized as a valuable…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Secondary School Curriculum, High Schools
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Ellerbrock, Cheryl R.; Kiefer, Sarah M. – Journal of Educational Research, 2013
This qualitative within-site case study ("N" = 10) is a follow-up study to a 2006-2007 investigation that analyzed how 1 high school created a community of care for its ninth-grade students through the implementation of a ninth-grade transition program--Freshman Focus. All participants were interviewed again 3 years later during…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, Transitional Programs, Followup Studies
McBrady, Shannon; Williamson, Ronald – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2010
America's high schools face the challenge of improving student learning in an ever-changing global world (Marx, 2006). Fueling the need for reform is the urgency of graduating more highly skilled citizens and the demands from federal and state government. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and state legislation make today's high schools more accountable…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Transitional Programs, High Schools, Graduation Rate
Johnston, Howard – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2010
What does the literature say about effective transition between the high school and post-secondary education? A disturbing number of students leave college without completing their degree or earning the credential they sought. This problem, which is especially acute for poor, minority and rural students, results in a colossal waste of talent,…
Descriptors: Rural Education, High School Graduates, Postsecondary Education, College Bound Students
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Bohanon, Hank; Flannery, K. Brigid; Malloy, JoAnne; Fenning, Pamela – Exceptionality, 2009
The integration of primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions through positive behavior supports (PBS) can provide benefit for students, staff, and families (Bohanon et al., 2006; Turnbull et al., 2002). However, there is limited application of PBS to high schools settings (Sugai, Flannery, & Bohanon, 2004). However, preliminary data is…
Descriptors: High Schools, Student Behavior, Incidence, Graduation Rate
Quint, Janet; Thompson, Saskia Levy; Bald, Margaret – MDRC, 2008
This report offers lessons from the last in a series of three high school reform conferences sponsored by MDRC, the Council of the Great City Schools, and the National High School Alliance. The conference brought together leaders from 22 midsize urban school districts on June 25-26, 2007, provided a forum for practitioners to share research and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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McIntosh, Julie; White, Sandra H. – American Secondary Education, 2006
A pivotal point for students is the transition from middle school to high school. Students will decide during the first few weeks of their freshman year if they intend to continue their high school education (Hertzog & Morgan, 1999). This article provides the reader with the research surrounding this transition year, programs and practices…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Freshmen, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Frasier, James R. – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2007
Many students with disabilities entering the 9th grade express concern about getting lost in the larger high school environment, being picked on by older students, and having more challenging academic classes. The transition from middle-to-high school process for students with disabilities at Westminster High School in suburban Los Angeles is a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Scheduling, Middle Schools, Disabilities
Herlihy, Corinne – National High School Center, 2007
The transition into high school is a critical point in the educational pipeline, and ninth-grade can be characterized as one of its leakiest junctures. This policy brief examines how some states and districts are currently easing the transition into high school for students. It focuses on five key challenges that states, districts and schools…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade 9, Dropout Prevention, School Statistics
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Benner, Aprile D.; Graham, Sandra – Child Development, 2009
The high school transition was examined in an ethnically diverse, urban sample of 1,979 adolescents, followed from 7th to 10th grade (M[subscript age] = 14.6, SD = 0.37 in 7th grade). Twice annually, data were gathered on adolescents' perceptions of school climate, psychological functioning, and academic behaviors. Piecewise growth modeling…
Descriptors: High Schools, Middle Schools, Racial Differences, African American Students
Blankenship, Selena S.; Ruona, Wendy E. A. – Online Submission, 2008
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored knowledge sharing among members of a community of practice (CoP) in a large, urban high school. Findings suggest that social relationships, informal channels, community culture, levels of trust, and spatial factors influence knowledge sharing, and that CoPs have the potential to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, School Culture, Educational Environment
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