Comprehensive guides designed to help educators tackle key challenges in student success, attendance, engagement, and graduation
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This guide equips school leaders and staff with strategies to build resilience among students. It offers a ten-step framework for implementing school-wide resilience initiatives, along with self-assessment tools to evaluate progress and sustainability. It includes guidance for involving parents, community members, and decision-makers in resilience-building efforts.
This guide supports schools and districts in developing effective alternatives to suspension and addressing the underlying behavioral issues contributing to disciplinary problems. It provides frameworks for assessment and improvement, helping educators create safer, more supportive school environments while keeping students engaged in learning.
Designed to help schools create more engaging learning environments, this guide offers strategies for improving student engagement and self-directed learning. It includes research-based approaches for enhancing instruction, extracurricular activities, and student relationships with school, with assessment tools to identify areas for improvement.
This comprehensive guide provides educators and school leaders with research-based strategies and foundational principles for addressing absenteeism and truancy. It serves as a practical roadmap for tackling attendance challenges, offering self-assessment tools to evaluate current practices and develop targeted action steps to improve student attendance.
Developed from NDPC’s extensive experience working with alternative schools, this guide provides leaders and policymakers with five improvement domains and thirty-two focus areas to assess and enhance alternative school effectiveness. It uses guiding questions to identify improvement opportunities and help schools better serve at-risk and struggling students.
This guide supports rural school districts in implementing graduation coaching programs. It provides strategies and best practices for hiring, training, and supporting graduation coaches to help at-risk students stay on track and complete high school.