How To
Supporting Students Who Are Expelled
Academic and Instructional Supports
- A Supportive Beliefs Intervention to Facilitate the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (School Mental Health)
- Best Practices for Delivering Virtual Classroom Training
- Best Practices in Teaching K-12 Online: Lessons Learned from Michigan Virtual School Teachers (Journal of Interactive Online Learning)
- Blended Learning Systems: Definition, Current Trends and Future Directions
- CTHSS Initiates Blended Learning Model for Delivery of Instruction (PowerPoint) (CTHSS)
- Guidelines for Implementation Mastery-Based Learning (CSDE)
- Using Online Learning for Credit Recovery: Getting Back on Track to Graduation (International Association for K-12 Online Learning)
Alternative Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled
- A Framework for Learning Alternatives Environments in Iowa (National Dropout Prevention Center)
- Alternative Educational Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled: Best Practice Guidelines for Program Implementation (CSDE)
- Alternative Schools: Policy and legislation Across the United States (University of Minnesota)
- Disciplinary Alternative Education Program Practices (Texas Education Agency)
- How Do States Define Alternative Education? (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance)
- Guidelines for Alternative Education Settings (CSDE)
- Guidance Regarding Student Expulsion (CSDE Superintendent Letter, August 31, 2018)
CSDE Standards for Expelled Students
- Standards for Educational Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled
- Understanding School Expulsions in Connecticut
Climate and Culture: Discipline, Behavior Management and School Safety
- Connections to School as an Indicator of Positive Development (Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, University of Minnesota)
- Effects of Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports on Child Behavior Problems (Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Guidelines for Identifying and Educating Students with Emotional Disturbance (CSDE)
- Guidelines for the Practice of School Psychology (CSDE)
- Meeting the Challenge of Combating Chronic Absenteeism: Impact of the NYC Mayor’s Interagency Task Force on Chronic Absenteeism and School Attendance and Its Implications for Other Cities (Johns Hopkins School of Education)
- Relationships Matter: Linking Teacher Support to Student Engagement and Achievement (Journal of School Health)
- School Connectedness: Improving Students’ Lives (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
- School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth (Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience: Working Paper 13 (Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University)
Counseling and Support Services for Socio-Emotional and Life Skill Development
- Addressing the Health-Related Causes of Chronic Absenteeism: A Tool Kit for Action (Healthy Schools Campaign)
- Enhancing Academic Performance and Social and Emotional Competence with RULER Feeling Words Curriculum (Learning and Individual Differences, Elsevier Inc.)
- Improving the Social and Emotional Climate of Classrooms: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Trial Testing the RULER Approach
- The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions (Child Development)
Parent/Guardian and Family Engagement Practices
Program Characteristics
- Connecticut Compilation of School Discipline Laws and Regulations (U.S. Department of Education)
- Getting Students on Track for Graduation: Impacts of the Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring System after One Year (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance)
- Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance)
- The Persistent Effect of Race and the Promise of Alternatives to Suspension in School Discipline Outcomes (Children and Youth Services Review)
- What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report: Dropout Prevention Check & Connect (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences)
Program Evaluation
- Exemplary Practices in Alternative Education: Indicators of Quality Programming (National Alternative Education Association)
- Juvenile Structured Day Programs for Suspended and Expelled Youth: Impact and Process Study (Center for Urban & Regional Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Responsibilities and Training for Educators: Administration, Teachers, and Staff
- Best Practices for Delivering Virtual Classroom Training (Adobe Systems Incorporated)
- Communities of Practice (Innovative Learning)