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Paul Caldarella; Erika J. Richards; Leslie Williams; Emily J. Warburton – Education and Treatment of Children, 2023
Effective interventions are needed to help alternative high school teachers manage challenging student behaviors. One such intervention, class-wide function-related intervention teams (CW-FIT), is a classroom management program based on positive behavior interventions and supports principles. CW-FIT involves teaching appropriate classroom…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Nontraditional Education, High Schools, Summer Programs
Kristen Ford; Annette Anderson; Yolanda Abel; Marcia Davis – School Psychology Review, 2024
Schools are turning to research-based social emotional learning (SEL) practices to improve student achievement and school progress. Research to support SEL implementation, however, has lagged behind outcomes-based evaluations, often resulting in poor SEL program quality and fidelity. This mixed methods study explores SEL implementation at a…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Teachers, Secondary School Curriculum, Nontraditional Education
Melissa Watson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Blended learning is defined by its combination of traditional face-to-face and online educational resources. It requires that students have some control over some element of time, place, path, or pace of their own learning. In their efforts to improve student outcomes, schools adopt instructional models such as blended learning in their efforts to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Program Implementation
Vincent, Claudia G.; Inglish, John; Girvan, Erik; Van Ryzin, Mark; Svanks, Rita; Springer, Shareen; Ivey, Allison – Grantee Submission, 2021
We report findings from a recent field test assessing the feasibility of training teachers in implementing restorative practices within a multi-tiered approach to supporting student behavior. First, we provide an overview of our training content, training delivery, and follow-up coaching. Second, we present overall outcomes from our field test…
Descriptors: High Schools, Restorative Practices, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Discipline Policy
Christian, Cinda – Online Submission, 2018
The Coordinated School Health (CSH) report describes how the CSH program was implemented at AISD campuses during 2017-2018. The reports provide summary- and campus-level information about achieved CSH action goals and information about changes in physical fitness of students at the campus since the previous year.
Descriptors: School Districts, School Health Services, Program Implementation, Physical Fitness
de Velasco, Jorge Ruiz; Gonzales, Daisy – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2017
California's alternative education options for youth vulnerable to dropping out of school have been established at different historical points and for different student age and target populations. For purposes of this brief, "alternative school" is defined as belonging to one of six legislatively authorized types of public (non-charter)…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Alignment (Education)
Ransford, Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study is a case study of the diffusion of a successful middle college program to an early college high school in a densely populated county in the upper Midwest. The data from interviews with 17 respondents who had been designers or implementers of either the first or the diffused model defined the essential elements of success of the first…
Descriptors: High Schools, College Preparation, Nontraditional Education, Program Implementation
Bush, Susan C. – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2012
This issue brief is part of a larger study of California continuation high schools begun in 2007. While the first phase of the study examined various alternative education options throughout the state, this second phase focused on 23 higher performing continuation high schools in California selected based on multiple student outcome measures. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Outcome Measures, Outcomes of Education
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
Bray, Jim – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1991
The Governor's School of North Carolina (West) serves 400 gifted high school students each summer with a curriculum of cognitive development, conceptual development, and personal and social development. This paper describes the theory of the school, student selection, and plans for the future. (JDD)
Descriptors: Gifted, High Schools, Nontraditional Education, Program Implementation
Fouts, Jeffrey T. – 1995
In 1990, Kent-Meridian High School in Kent, Washington, decided to implement four schools-within-schools, each with its separate academic and career focus. The first school, focusing on the area of health science, was implemented in 1992. A second school-within-the-school, the International Business and Global Studies (IBGS) School, was…
Descriptors: High Schools, Nontraditional Education, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness

Wigginton, Eliot – Harvard Educational Review, 1989
Describes Foxfire, a philosophy of education firmly grounded in principles of democratic, experiential education. Discusses how many who attempted to adopt the approach of the Foxfire books without its founding principles obtained traditional, teacher-oriented results. Describes Foxfire's educational practices and major aspects of the staff's work…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Experiential Learning, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education
Conley, D. T. – Educational Policy Improvement Center (NJ1), 2009
In June 2007, the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) was awarded a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop the College Ready School Diagnostic, a web-based diagnostic instrument. The purpose of this tool is to provide individual school profiles and customized recommendations, enabling each institution to make…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Profiles, Charter Schools

Kritek, William J. – Planning and Changing, 1977
Accounts, in part, for the successful implementation of an alternative "school-without-walls" and provides clues to what program administrators can do to make it more likely that new programs will get fair trials in the schools. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, High Schools, Nontraditional Education

Kellmayer, John – NASSP Bulletin, 1995
Chronically disruptive students are often funneled into "watered-down" alternative schools that warehouse rather than educate them. The Atlantic County (New Jersey) Alternative High School is a successful college-based program that expects referred students to fulfill normal academic requirements while taking tuition-free college…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, College School Cooperation, High School Students, High Schools