Learning Environment
Recommended Practice: Personalize the learning environment and instructional process.
- Overview & Tools: Video overviews and professional development materials
- Learn What Works: Expert interviews about the learning environment
- See How It Works: Videos and sample materials from schools
Personalizing the Learning Environment
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > Overview & Tools
This overview will demonstrate how personalizing the learning environment can create a sense of belonging and provide academic, social, and behavioral encouragement for students.
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Overview
Connecting to Kids With Small Learning Environments
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > Learn What Works
Dr. Nettie Legters discusses the different ways of personalizing the learning environments for secondary school students.
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Expert Interview
Building a Personalized Environment Through Small Learning Communities
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
Western Hills University High School uses a team approach and flex block scheduling to foster a personalized learning environment. The team-based learning approach at Western Hills helps teachers...
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School Example
Building a Personalized Culture Using the Five Big Rocks
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
The principal at Foxfire discusses the foundational principles of the school's learning environment: Big Rocks. These principles are Core Values, Wellness, Communication, Building and Building...
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School Example
Students Want to Come to School
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
Watch a multimedia presentation in which a graduation coach describes how his school makes students feel welcome. The dropout prevention team uses documents such as the Credit Recovery Tracker and...
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School Example
Preparing Students for Success Through the Freshman Academy
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
Watch a video about the Freshman Academy program one high school engages to support the freshman transition. Sample materials Tutoring Assignment Pass and Pathways to Success Organization and...
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School Example
Avanza Program and Spanish Language General Education Development (GED)
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
Read about the Avanza and Spanish Language GED programs at Sleepy Hollow High School that serve the school's English as a Second Language (ESL) students. The program seeks to improve the academic...
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Sample Material
Big Rocks
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
This presentation introduces Big Rocks: core values, communication, wellness, non-academic barriers/services, building relationships and celebrating successes. Foxfire plans for, monitors, models,...
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Sample Material
Dropout Recovery Plan
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
Dropout prevention team members created this plan to detail its activities to support students, such as visiting families and allowing students to recover credits. The multimedia presentation,...
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Sample Material
Credit Recovery Tracker
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
A high school graduation coach uses this tracker to monitor the credit recovery progress of students coming back to school after dropping out. Watch the multimedia presentation, Students Want to...
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Sample Material
Pathways to Success Organization and Content
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
This presentation describes a school's mandatory skills course for ninth graders. To learn more about the school's efforts to help students stay on track to graduate, watch the multimedia...
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Sample Material
Tutoring Assignment Pass
Dropout Prevention > Learning Environment > See How It Works
Students at one high school use this tutoring pass to record their compliance with tutoring sessions, required whenever one of their grades falls below passing. To learn more about the academic...
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Sample Material
