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  • Ivy Tech spent years trying to improve rock bottom graduation rates — and it's working

    June 14, 2022 |

    WFYI Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Indiana

    An Indiana community college more than doubled its two-year completion rate by restructuring its remedial education program to get more students into college-level coursework as soon as they enroll. Students can now take corequisites, developmental courses completed alongside college-level courses in the same subject, and complete curriculum requirements more quickly during shortened eight-week sessions.

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  • As Youth Mental Health Crisis Rages, Michigan Schools Work to Bolster Students' Sense of Connection

    June 08, 2022 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Amid a shortage of school counselors and social workers, Michigan school districts are emphasizing social-emotional learning with a new curriculum that draws on cognitive behavioral therapy. Through short lessons about how to disrupt negative thoughts and emotions, small-group sessions with mental health professionals, and expanded teacher training around suicide risk management, schools are creating a "culture of empathy" that students say has improved their sense of self-efficacy.

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  • Inside Dallas schools' attempt to eliminate most suspensions to help kids of color

    May 18, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    In an effort to eliminate suspensions that disproportionately affect Black and brown students, Dallas Independent School District created on-campus reset centers where staff mediate conflicts between students and help them reflect on their behavior. Disciplinary action has declined since the centers were implemented, and the percentage of students being repeatedly disciplined fell from 28 percent to 13 percent.

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  • A school created a homeless shelter in the gym and it paid off in the classroom

    March 17, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The Stay Over Program allows families experiencing homelessness with children enrolled in the San Francisco Unified School District to use a high school gym as a shelter.

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  • The turnaround strategy inside St. Louis Public Schools that may be working—and may get discontinued

    February 28, 2022 |

    St. Louis Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    A pilot program, organized by the Consortium Partnership Network, seeks to improve school outcomes by shifting key decisions to staff inside the school, which schools remain under district supervision. The schools also partner with a nonprofit to provide technological support and bring in philanthropic dollars. The partially autonomous governance model is supported by the teacher’s union and has improved teaching-focused aspects as well as programs addressing the mental health, clothing, and food needs of students.

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  • Cooperating to make a difference

    February 18, 2022 |

    Inside Turkey |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Izmir

    The Alternative Education Association provides students with more individualized, dynamic educational opportunities, combatting the disappointment with the current education system. Since forming, the Association has established a preschool, kindergarten, and primary school for young students in the area.

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  • The Answer to our Youth Mental Health Crisis?

    February 03, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    To provide mental health care to students, a pilot program at Girard College meets students where they are at with practices based on integrated behavioral health, adding mental health care into conventional health care settings.

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  • Black students fought to defund school police in LA and hire mental health counselors instead

    February 01, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    After a period of backpack searches and police pepper-spraying students, Students Deserve, a youth-led activist group, pushed for the Los Angeles Unified School District to withdraw all funding for school police and divert it to mental health support for Black students. The school board approved a plan to cut one third of the school police budget, roughly around $25 million, and instead use it to fund “221 psychiatric social workers, counselors, “climate coaches,” and restorative justice advisers to schools with the highest number of Black students.”

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  • ‘Boys and girls have equal freedom': Kerala backs gender-neutral uniforms

    January 02, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Kerala

    In an attempt to provide ease of movement to girl students while playing, Valayanchirangara primary school introduced "gender-neutral" uniforms for all its 756 students that eliminated the earlier requirement for them to wear skirts. It has since inspired several other schools in Kerala to similarly change their uniforms and snowballed a movement, supported by the state's education minister no less, where more such measures to promote gender equality in schools are being encouraged and adapted.

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  • S.A.F.E. program supports Mansfield City School's homeless families

    December 24, 2021 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Massachusetts

    The Student Achievement through Family Engagement program provides Mansfield City School students experiencing homelessness with support, necessary supplies, and even toys and holiday gifts. Their efforts help improve student academic performance.

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