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The school practitioner's concise companion to preventing dropout and attendance problems / edited by Cynthia Franklin, Mary Beth Harris, Paula Allen-Meares.
LIBRA LC143 .S276 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- School practitioner's concise companions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dropouts--United States--Prevention.
- Dropouts.
- United States.
- School attendance--United States.
- School attendance.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 131 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Concise companion to preventing dropout and attendance problems
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- The School Practitioner's Concise Companions give busy social workers, psychologists, and counselors a quick guide to accessible, proven solutions for their students most common problems. Built around the expert advice from the acclaimed School Services Sourcebook, each volume is a rapidreference to a key school issue. Here, readers will find an overview of the factors that put students at risk for missing school and dropping out. This Concise Companion presents innovative, effective strategies to improve school attendance and engage underserved student populations such as those who are pregnant or in foster care. Each chapter is filled with charts, checklists, and cases and is conveniently organized around What We Know, What We Can Do, Tools and Practice Examples, and Key Points to Remember. A portable catalog of best practices, it brings evidence-based practice within easy reach of schoolprofessionals.
- Contents:
- Increasing school attendance : effective strategies and interventions / Johnny S. Kim, Calvin Streeter
- Enhancing skills with students vulnerable to underachievement and academic failure / Mary C. Ruffolo
- Guides for designing and establishing alternative school programs for dropout prevention / David Dupper
- Solution-focused, brief therapy interventions for students at risk to drop out / Cynthia Franklin, Johnny Kim, Stephen Tripodi
- Working with First Nations students and families / Dorie J. Gilbert, Gail Sims
- Home visiting : essential guidelines for home visits and engaging with families / Barbara H. Wasik, Gary L. Shaffer
- Helping children in foster care and other residential placements succeed in school / Dorian E. Traube, Mary M. McKay
- Primary prevention of pregnancy : effective school-based programs / Mary Beth Harris
- Best school-based practices with adolescent parents / Mary Beth Harris.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-126) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780195370577
- 0195370570
- OCLC:
- 226314489
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