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ERIC ED330737: Youth At-Risk: A Resource Guide. Proceedings of the Annual Southeastern Conference on At-Risk Youth (1st, Savannah, Georgia, February 2-3, 1990). PDF

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DOCUMENT RESUME UD 027 922 ED 330 737 Morris, Robert C., Ed. AUTHOR Youth At-Risk: A Resource Guide. Proceedings of the TITLE Annual Southeastern Conference on At-Risk Youth (1st, Savannah, Georgia, February 2-3, 1990). ISBN-87762-830-0 REPORT NO PUB DATE 91 NOTE 163p. Order Department, Technomic Publishing Company Inc., AVAILABLE FROM 851 New Holland Avenue, Box 3535, Lancaster, PA 17604. Collected Works - Conference Proceedings (021) PUB TYPE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. EARS PRICE Comprehensive Programs; *Dropout Characteristics; DESCRIPTORS *Dropout Prevention; *Dropout Programs; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; *High Risk Students; *Parent Participation; Postsecondary Education; Potential Dropouts; Resource Materials; *School Community Relationship ABSTRACT This resource guide includes abstracts of 90 papers presented at the conference. Section 1, "Understanding Students At-Risk," includes 17 abstracts that emphasize the need for a comprehensive set of services that can respond to the diverse needs of at-risk students. Section 2, "Preventing and Reducing Incidence of At-Risk," includes 17 abstracts that focus on the need to identify and address those conditions that place a student at risk early in the schooling prc'less. Section 3, "Changing the System," includes 15 abstracts that focus on cooperative, systematic efforts to improve conditions in the home, the school, and the media. Section 4, "Strategies and Programs for Working with At-Risk Youth," includes 22 abstracts that describe unique dropout prevention programs and strategies from preschool through college. Section 5, "Utilizing Community Resources," includes nine abstracts that describe community-based strategies that use businesses, citizens, and parents. Section 6, "Facilitating Parent Involvement," includes 10 abstracts that describe studies and programs focusing on the (1) basic parenting following types of parent involvement: obligations; (2) school obligations; (3) parent involvement at school; (4) parent involvement in learning activities at home; and (5) Parent involvement that relates to decision-making or advisory roles. The conference program and a list of presenters is appended. (FMW) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * * *********************************************************************** Its YOU rit,g AT-RI A Resource Guide or U S DEPARTMENT EDUCATION Office ot E dor et.00al Research And Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CE NT E R (ERCI *Ns aocurneol has twat, reproduce:1 OS reCeoded from the person or arga,zetron orrivuotrny 1 n minor chimges haw, been made to rrnprove reprociuction Quality ponts ol rre* or (m0,00141.1,4(1 ,n Mrs dor u ment CO nof rrclSSWrir ,f'KuoSen( ofitnIat 01 R poeboo or ptarcy -PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL IN MICROFICHE ONLY HAS BEEN GRANTED BY /lforrs ber-i- (t. eo eel? a v SO et TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." Edited By ROBERT C. MORRIS 'AU* 0 gen COPY AVAILABLE YOUTH AT-R1SK A Rescnove Guide Edited By ROBERT C. MORRIS Professor and Department Head Educational Leaciership, Technology and Research Georgia Southern UnKersity Statesboro, Georgia 12. TECHNOMIC ZJBLISHING CO INC NCAsTuR Youth At-Risk aTECHNOMICiANKatmn Pu hitched in the Novern liennyherr li..chnornie Publishing Company. Inc. 851 New Holland Avenue Box 3535 Lancaster. Pnn,ykina 17604 U.S. A . Actrehured in Ow Reit of the gOrld fn 'let:Monne Publishing AG Copyright 1991 by Technomic Publishing Company. Inc. All rights reserved No part of this publiamon may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system. or transmitted. in any form or by any means. electronic. mechanical. photocopying. recording. or otherwise, without the prior written peimis.sion of the publisher. Printed in the United States ot Amema 7 6 4 9 8 10 5 3 2 1 Main entry under tale: Nbuth At.Risk; A Resource Guide A Technomie Publishing Company book Bibhography: p. Index: p. 145 Library ot Congress Card No. 90 72148 ISBN No. 87762-83041 HOW TO ORDER THIS BOOK I me 800 233 9936 or 717 291 5609 8ar.4 bMi Ei;ter Or ,ric)t.41. Pr f Ax 717 295 4538 roa: OrdN Department Technormc Publ,SM,ng Company Inc 851 New Holland Avenue Box 3535 ancaster. PA 17604 Li S A HN CRE.on CARp Arnercan Express VISA MastorCarO YOUTH AT.RISK A RESOURCE GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword vii Acknowledgements viii Introduction ix SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS AT-RISK 1 Developing Self-Esteem and Internal Motivation: The Keys to Success for At-Risk Students - Kris Graham 2 Ailey Camp: Turning on At-Risk Youth - De In L. Leigh 3 Reducing Students At-Risk Through Modifying Teaching Expectations - Beatrice L. Logan and Deborah Najee-ullah 4 The Relationship Between Low Self-Esteem and At-Risk Students - Johnnie Mitchell 5 How to Design Effective Programs to Meet the Needs of Students At-Risk - Judy Lehr 6 Diamonds Will Sparkle (or ) Diamonds in the Rough - John T. Reardon 8 Accumulative Teaching in Elemenuuy Math: How and How Often for the At-Risk Student - Noma McNair, Kathy DeLoach, Beth Persinger and Jackie Coston 10 Staff Develo; laent and the Dropout Crisis - Kay Sutcliffe and Jim Malanowski 10 A Secend Chance - A Last Chance for the At-Risk Student- Linda Wilhelms, Dorace Peters and Orwillie Martin 12 Differing Literacy Achievement Expectations of At-Risk Students, K -3: Implications and Explanations - Geoffrey Purcell 13 GOALS: Intensive Care for At-Risk Students - Wendell Howze 14 Two Outreach Programs Whereby Colleges Can Help Area High Schools Lessen the Number of At-Risk Students - Louis Emond 15 The Careers and Choices Exploration Program - Gail Quick, Sherri Shoffner end Carolyn Banner 16 Who is Responsible for Learning? Implications for At-Risk Students - Ellen M. Tomchin and Steven M. Culver 19 At-Risk Students Want to Learn - Priscilla Kite-Powell 21 Preventive Programs for At-Risk Students in the Newart School District.: An Examination of Program Effectiveness and Methodological Issues - Elaine Walker, Peter Homel and Rosemarie Kopacsi 22 Predicting College Success: Who is at Insk - Judith Schulz 23 SECTION PREVENTION AND REDCCING INCIDENCE OF AT-RISK 25 Identification of Potential School Dropouts and :-nplementadon of Dropout Prevention Program - Jerry Trusty and K. Dooley-Dickey 26 SMART START - Early Screening and Intervention: A Rural Model for At-Risk Prevention and Reduction - N. D. Stubblefield and Carolyn M. Taylor 27 Preventing and Reducing Students At-Risk Through the School Discipline Program - George J. Fero 29 K-2 Program: The Prevention of Failure - William P. Deighan 30 ALLIGATORS ON ESCALATORS: Helping 'at risk' kids bring grades up and behavior down! - Frank C. Campana and Gail Sauer 32 How One Elementary School Provides Success Experiences to At-Risk Students Et-Try Day - Carolyn Lawrence and Gordon Lawrence 33 T.O.T. - A Total on Target Team Approach for At-Risk Students - Faith Spitz 34 Leadership as Applied to At-Risk Programs - Ridgley Schou 36 Getting Out of-Out of Control - Jessica M. Gurvit 37 Rhyme, Rhythm and Reading - A Retention Program for M-Risic Snide= - Wynton H. Hadley and Richard T. Hadley 38 iii Projert Rebound: Effective Intervention for Pural Elementary At-Risk Students - Benny Li le, 40 Glyna Li le and Byron Jeffrie St. Clair County (Illinois) At-Risk Student Program - Rose Ila J. Wamser 41 Equal Educational Access for the Learning Disabled: Students At-Risk - Talmadge Frazier 42 and Dolores Robinson 44 Pregnant and Parenting Teens: A Multigenerational Dropout Prevention - Sandra Hansford The Summer Enhancement Program: At-Risk Elementary Students Learn Basic Skills Through Science - Susan Cutoff 44 An Investigation of the Effects of a Systematic Behavior Modification Program on the Verbal Interaction of Classroom Teachers and its Relationship to Teachere/Students' Self-Concept 46 - Jerry D. Jones Glenbard East High School At-Risk Program - Donald Kersemeier, Douglas Locke and 47 Greg Marthale SECTION ID: CHANGING THE SYSTEM 49 Academic Success for Students 'At-Risk' - Caroline Blumenthal, Gerald V. Holmes and Linda Pounds 50 School Based Strategies for Dealing With At-Risk Students - Mark H. Frankel and Doris N. Ennis 51 Curricular Change: One Solution for 'At-Risk' Rural Schools - James V. Parker 52 A Survival Course for the 90's: Helping At-Risk Students Meet Deficiencies in College Prep. Classes - James A. Fisher and Rene Y. Carrie 55 56 Creative Writing to Enhance Learning and Self-Esteem - Marvella D. Dorman Reforming and Changing Educational Delivery Systems - Beverly I. Davis and Elaine M. Haney 57 Adventure-Based Counseling in the Secondary School - Norman Broadwell and Cindy Simpson 59 Risky Business: The Library's Role in Dropout Prevention - J. Gordon Coleman 61 Alternative Schools for Pregnant Teenagers: Forerunners of a Changing Educational Delivery System - Mary Pilat 63 Student Challenge Program: Redford Union High School - Robert W. Schrarnke 64 An Independent School Responds to At-Risk Saidents - Melanie Spewock Sharing the Wealth 65 Supplenental Instruction: An Integrative Approach to Help High Risk Students - Mary Gravina and Barbara LoCassio 67 Preventing Students from Falling into the At-Risk Category and Radically Restructuring Our Educational Delivery Systems - R. W. McFarland 68 . Project Good Money - Daniel Martin 69 Reaching Students At-Risk Through Teacher Empowerment: Morgan County Primary, A Demonstration School of the Univeristy of Georgia - Wayne Meyers and Mary Pickles 71 SECTION IV: STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMS FOR WORKING WITH AT-RISK YOUTH 72 The Gentle Art of Ogressing: Some Attitudes and Techniques that Help Prevent or ReLibilitate Underachievement - Dorothy Freeman 73 Seeing 'At-Risk' Students as Human Beings With Potential Is The First Step - Roger Wilbur 73 School Discipline and the Student At-Risk: In School Alteranrive Program- Gregg Weinlein 75 A Math 'First Aid Kit': Using Writing To Learn Mathematics - Nan Adler 76 Dealing With At-Risk Students - A Dropout Prevention Program That Works - Thomas W. Flynn 77 Children At-Risk In Our Schools: The Need For a Survival Curriculum - Tim Heaton 79 Meeting The Needs of kt-Risk Youth in Georgia State Innovation Projects: 80 - Gerald A. Klein, Richard Johnson and Marcia Talbert Enhancing Success for At-Risk Students Through a Team Approach to Providing Academic Survival Skills - Joyce Craven and Vivian Snyder 83 Career Exploration as a Route, to Valuing Self, Educatioa, and Wolk 84 - Joseph Davis, Lewis Griner, Eva Rucker, Jean Bowen Federation Employment and Guidance Service's Ongoing Collaboration with the New York City Steve Feldman Board of Education on Behalf of At-Risk High School Students - 85 iv Access to Knowkdge: Three Southeastern Innovations to the College Board's Educational Equality (EQ) Project Which Develop Academic Skills for At-Risk Students - Walter Jacobs, Jr., Willie Foster, Joyce J. Yotmg and James Hutto 86 Project IMPACT - Improving Minimal Proficiencies by Activating Critical Thinking - Rona Wolfson 87 Palimpsest Probability and the Writing Process: Mega-Change for At-Risk Students - Patricia Wellington and Charlotte Perlin 88 Munsy Ifigh School - A Non-Traditional Approach to Meeting the Needs of An At-Risk Population - Rochelle Friedman 89 Youth Opportunitie% Unlimited: Learn to Earn Brannen 90 Restructing Schools: Demo:rade Management/A Pfogram That Works - William Fox and K. Morris-Kortz 93 Community Nobilization: Involving the Whole Community in Comprehensive Prevention Planning for At-Risk Students - James R. Romero 94 Youth Advocate Programs, Inc.: An Intensive Comprehensive Approach to Serving High Risk Youth and Their Families - Tom Berry and Doug Clark 96 Project Climb - Barry Glickman 97 Assisting Freshman Student Success: A Study of Extended Orientation in theUniversity - Joanne Nottingham 98 Success in American Education - Ron Elkind 99 Academic and Athletic Excellence in Athletes (On a Roll) Honor Roll - Jack Silberman 101 SECTION V: UTILIZING COMMUNITY RESOURCES 103 Dropout Prevention Begins at the Elementary Level and Can Be Greatly Reduced at the Secondary Level - An Innovative Approach to a Business-Education Partnaship - James P. Boyle 104 The Technical Alternative High School: A Comprehensive Vocational, Academic and Counseling Support for Emotionally Handicapped Students At-Risk of Dropping Out - J. Schwartzberg and Stephen Jambor 105 Stoughton Learnshare: Mobilizing A Multiplicity of Resources to Retain ai.d Engage At-Risk Youth in School - Dan Wiltrout 106 Inter-Agency Networking and Linking Schools and Agencies: A Community Based Approach to At-Risk Youth - Ruth Banks, Rosemarie Kopacsi and Ann M. Wilson 106 Alliance Volunteers: Early Literacy Intervention for Children At-Risk, A Community Partnership - Lynda Dunn, Gene Moll and Andree Tostevin 108 Reduction of Secondary School Students At Risk: At-Risk Student identification, Support Services, and Multi-Disciplinary Group Intervention - Chris Chalker 109 What Is To Be Done Differently With At-Risk Students in Mathematics - Amine Sharif 111 Anatomy of Collaboration Work Achievement and Values in Edecation - The WAVE, A Model Dropout Prevention Program for At-Risk Students - Alta J. Cannady 112 School to Work Transition Process - Dorice Wright 113 SECTION VI: FACILITATING PARENT INVOLVEMENT 114 Managing Family/School Partnerships in Distressed Communities: Analysis of Problems and Programmatic Change in Four Successful Projects - John E. Bertrand and Barbara Nye 115 Project P.A.S.S. Helps Them Pass - Lynne Entrekin 116 Facilitating Parent Involvement in the At-Risk Problem: A School District's Solutions - Jim Chapman and Elva G. Laurel 117 Removing the Risk: Creating Parent - Teacher Partnerships - Lisa Condrey and Terry Oglesby 118 An Urban Dropout Initiative: Strategies and Resolutions - Edward D. Jonas, Bobby Winborn, Gerald Jordan, Delores Pringle and Andrew Fellers 119 Addressing the Needs of At-Risk Students: A Local School Program that Works - Michael O'Neal, Barbara Earley and Marge Snider 122 Levels of Risks and Factors Needed Toward Change - Denise Bozich 124 Parent Leadership: Time to Take Charge and Circle The Parent Wagons Arotmd At-Risk Youth - John R. Ban 125 College Students At Risk: A Dilemma for the 1990's - Stephane E. Booth, James McConnell and Claudia Barrett 127 'Me Provisional Year Program - J. Thomas Davis and 0. James Bums 129 Appendix A. Program of the First Southeastern Conference on At-Risk Youth 130 B. Conference PresenterslAuthoes Addresses 138 Index 145 vi Foreword Perhaps at no other time in the history of American education has it been more critical that an understanding of youth at risk be not only encouraged but focused and designed in such a way that many various segments of our communities can be brought together and used. With this thought in mind, a two day national conference dealing with youth at-risk was collaboratively held in Savamiah, Georgia on February 2-3, 1990. This conference was co-sponsored by the local school system and the three nearby institutions of higher education: Georgia Southern University, Armstrong State College and Savannah State College. The purpose of this conference was to encourage quality thinking and in depth discussion about those pmblems and issues associated with youth at-risk. At the conclusion of the conference, the Superintendent of the Savannah/Chatham County Schools, Dr. Cecil Carter addressed a large audience containing 200 plus parents of at-risk children in the district. The following is cited from his address. .. I think I can safely say we all carry away from this conference a new sense of urgency about what we are doing. Time is nmning out, and we have had plenty of reminders over the last 2 days of that. ... Those of you who shared lunch with us here yesterday remember Dr. Corner's chilling prediction that we have just one more decade to solve this pn. blem before it simply becomes too big to deal with. ... Warnings sounded from just one quarter are sometimes easy to ignore, but we got the same message from another distinguished speaker, researcher Dennis P. Doyle. These two scholars started from different backgrounds, they speak from the viewpointf of different professions, but they say strikingly similar things. ... Your challenge, as parents and citizens concerned about at-risk youth, is to see that we rio not fall into the trap of producing a generation of employable, but It goes without saying that employable beats unenlightened, graduates. unemployable, but we must remember that the goal of education is higher than just getting our graduates a job. Education should aim to produce independent and creative thinkers who are able to identify and achieve their own personal goals, not just trained workers who fit in well in the high tech assembly line and are able to earn enough to make ardit card payments. ... It is not enough to offer everyone the chance to go to school. We have to assure equal access to a quality education - to a good education - or we sell democracy short. Superintendent Carter's observations and insights about the overall impact of the conference offers us all a unique perspective of the thoughtfulness needed by those individuals who must face the problems and issues connected with at-risk youth. To those.; who are attempting, we salute you and dedicate this volume! vii Acknowledgements As in any publication or endeavor, such as a major conference, certain individuals step forward to assist. Initial proposal reviewers included Otis Johnson, Director of the Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority; Evelyn Dandy, Professor at Armstrong State College; Zelda Tenenbauin, Director of Human Resources Development, and Sharon Dar ley, Administrative Coordinator for the Chatham County At-Risk Program. Additionally, the assistance of Daniel Washington, from Savannah State College and the Chatham County School Board, along with Cecil Carter, Superintendent of Savannah/Chatham County Schools and Judith Krug from the Savannah Compact of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce was likewise essential for both the conference and follow-up activities. Writing and editing assistance for this volume came from Rick Breault, Chris Chalker, Sophia D. Kent, Jim Parker and Nancy Norton. Their writing and reviewing contributions are especially appreciated. Thanks also goes to Donna Colson, Beth Parrish and Tina Southwell of the Word Processing Center at Georgia Southern University for their many hours of work involved in the preparation of this volume. viii

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