Beyond Social Promotion and Retention:

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius
Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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Roman Educational Consultants
Pillars of Education since 1954 You can lean on
us.
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Consulting Engineers Reframing Education
Cherie Grant
Michael Hawkins
Donya Clute
Anna Davis Sapienza
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Beyond Social Promotion and Retention

• Alternative Best Practices
• in Education

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Overview

• High stakes assessment
• Accountability movement
• Ineffectiveness
• Failure cycle

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Retention Research

• Statistics
• Poor, minority, urban
• Boys
• Single parent
• ESL
• late birth dates

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Retention Research

• Drop out rates
• Gains small
• Generates anxiety
• Attention
• Transient

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Social Promotion Research

• Drop out rates
• Student achievement
• Employment skills
• Expectations
• Worth
• Time and effort

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Results

• Inadequate
• Not preventative
• Remedy

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Recommendations

• Alternative approaches
• High-achieving environments
• Support
• Assistance
• Policies/ procedures
• Research based

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Best Practice 1Staff Development

• Skilled teachers
• Improved learning
• Collaboration
• Mentoring
• Funding

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Best Practice TwoIntensify Learning

• Academic rigor
• High expectations
• Integrated curriculum
• Teachers
• Problem based learning

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Best Practice Three Alternative Instructional
Paths

• Flexible scheduling
• Continuous learning calendar
• Differentiated instruction
• Multiage grouping
• Looping
• Smaller class size
• Multiple intelligences
• Technology

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Best Practice FourAlternative Assessment

• Guiding element
• Performance
• Informal
• On-going
• Reflective

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Best Practice FiveEarly Intervention

• Relative to school
• Supplemental
• Multifaceted
• Qualified
• Accelerate learning
• Parent component

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