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).

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Youth At-Risk: A Resource Guide. Proceedings of the
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Comprehensive Programs; *Dropout Characteristics;
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*Dropout Prevention; *Dropout Programs; Elementary
Secondary Education; Higher Education; *High Risk
Students; *Parent Participation; Postsecondary
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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