This booklet encourages potential high school dropouts to stay in school. It opens by claiming that the choice to drop out of school is the student's but lists negative potential outcomes of that choice. The next several sections discuss reasons why parents; the school; the community; businesses; federal, state, and local governments; and the…

Module Four of the Alberta project "Stay In--You Win" is presented in this document. This module is designed to generate ideas for planning effective initiatives for schools. The stated objectives of this module are to provide a listing of dropout prevention programs in Alberta high schools; to encourage interpersonal networking among…

This resource packet describes programs that employ one of 13 different school strategies that support and assist students at risk of failing to complete school. A brief introductory section notes that approximately 25% of all students who enter elementary school will drop out of school before graduation. It reviews characteristics of dropouts,…

This guide was designed to help local educators develop and implement a comprehensive program to support pregnant and parenting teenagers and assure them access to the resources and models they need to complete their education. Section I includes an overview of the demands faced by these young people and reviews the available research on…

This guide was written to provide a practical tool for school, community, family, business, and industry groups to use in planning, developing, and managing service networks to the meet the health, social, and educational needs of children at risk of school failure. This guide contains program models, elements of successful programs, and…

This document was prepared to aid Rhode Island schools in dealing with youth at risk of school failure. It defines at-risk students as young people who in danger of not completing school and notes that in Rhode Island over 25% of students who enter school fail to graduate from high school. It stresses the need for schools and communities to focus…

Reviews current literature on dropout prevention strategies and suggests intervention strategies that might be appropriate for small rural schools. Discusses unique characteristics of small rural schools and considers strategies of early identification, networking, group counseling, family counseling, academic tutoring-counseling combinations, and…

WECEP, a cooperative education program for 14- and 15-year-old potential dropouts in either elementary or high school grades, provides work experience in jobs approved by Federal and State laws. The guide is intended for use as a resource for teacher-coordinators of local WECEP programs and supplements another Illinois Division of Vocational and…

This manual is intended as a sourcebook for classroom counselors and teachers who include guidance activities in their secondary school classrooms. Developed by a secondary guidance project designed to maintain enrollment of potential dropouts, this manual offers basic classroom guidance strategies and techniques to coordinate home, school, and…

This manual is designed for teachers and counselors to train high school students as peer counselors. Developed as part of a secondary guidance project designed to maintain enrollment of potential dropouts, this training manual focuses on basic peer counseling skills, such as active listening, effective message sending, self-awareness, helping…

This guide is intended to help educators develop, manage, and implement practices that have proven successful with children at risk. It contains the statutes and standards which direct Children At Risk programming in Wisconsin, program models, elements of successful programs, technical information about requirements and mandates, and steps to help…

This guide is based on the experiences and procedures generated in the FOCUS Project at a Portland, Oregon high school. The document includes an overview which addresses the basic FOCUS philosophy, overall goals and objectives, staffing, and student audience. The instruction section contains the curriculum model, cross peer instruction, utilizing…

This document is designed to identify several types of vocational education programs and activities that are in operation in California's school districts and communities. Although the document primarily focuses on California programs, information in all sections--particularly those titled Vocational Education Advisory Committees, Scope of…