The Avon Grove School District has a middle school orientation program for incoming elementary students and their parents, which consists of several visits and open houses in the Spring and at the beginning of the Fall term. (SJL)

Reports on the approach to intervention developed by the Early Assistance for Students and Families Project for use by schools to facilitate the initial school adjustment of newly entering students and their families. Specifically discussed are: the concept of welcoming; intervention phases, tasks, and mechanisms; and the special focus on…

Four primary schools and one secondary school established a working partnership to provide continuity for pupils as they transferred from one school level to another. Records the management and progress of the project. (10 references) (MLF)

Examines how the city of Phoenix's school-based collaborative model to link students and families to services provides an effective way to deliver services. The partnership assists the schools in addressing multiple barriers that prevent children from achieving, while at the same time offers the setting in which to provide child-centered services…

Describes a one-day workshop developed at the University of Sydney (Australia) to facilitate social and study-related peer networks. Qualitative and quantitative analyses found that the workshops enhanced study, self-motivation, and general enjoyment of university life and were helpful in easing the transition of undergraduate students.…

In this article, the author discusses a transition program called "For Freshmen Only." This program serves as a worthwhile service that juniors and seniors can offer incoming freshmen; it offers opportunities for ninth graders to develop positive relationships with upperclassmen; it gives participants a leg up as they entered the more competitive,…

An estimated 370,000 schoolchildren were displaced last year by Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster ever to strike the United States. One year after, hundreds of thousands of these displaced students remain scattered in schools across the nation. In Houston, which has the largest concentration of evacuees, two schools continue helping…

This article describes a privately operated residential program called College Living Experience, a for-profit company, caters to a growing number of students with learning disabilities, Asperger's syndrome, and various emotional or behavioral disorders. The program has a team of full-time staff members helping students with their social and…

Experience America is a training program for Thomas Jefferson Fellows and Associates (TJFs) that seeks to build lasting links between the Americas by increasing foreign college student participants' understanding of U.S. society and culture and by providing opportunities for them to present information about their countries to North Americans. The…

The 1983-84 school year marks the second year of the Seattle Public Schools' operation of a re-entry program for students who are otherwise likely to be lost in the educational system. The program is designed to serve students in Grades 7-12 who have been suspended or expelled from the regular middle or high school program during 1983-84. To…

Results of evaluating the June 1987 orientation program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington are discussed and compared to findings of the 1986 orientation program evaluation. Items that were ranked as the four highest and four lowest aspects of orientation are identified. Orientation leader effectiveness is also assessed, along with…

Five group counseling techniques utilizing "earliest recollections" (ERs)--discussing, visualizing, role-playing, reporting, and logging ERs--are useful in helping gifted students identify underlying attitudes and feelings which precipitate behavior problems and work through these attitudes and feelings before they interfere with their…

Florida State University sponsored a "Faculty-to-Faculty Meeting on Articulation Issues" in which Florida community and junior college faculty members representing various academic areas met their Florida State counterparts to discuss issues pertaining to community and junior college students' successful entry and performance at the…

Describes an advocacy service for difficult-to-serve adolescents (exceptional students) created by the North York Board of Education. Includes structural flow charts of alternative programs. (ABB)

Discusses the two Calgary Bearspaw Centres (separate classrooms staffed by a teacher-counselor and an attendance counselor) that have successfully provided an alternative to formal student suspension for inappropriate behavior since 1979. Describes referral, interview, and classroom procedures; types of students served; daily schedule; class…