Academic Success
Achieve, Inc.
Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve helps states raise academic standards and achievement so that all students graduate ready for college, careers and citizenship. Over the past decade, states have led the national movement to raise standards, improve teaching and learning, and hold schools more accountable.
Active Learning Foundation
This site has books, activities and other great resources for teachers, parents, counselors and others to help increase active learning in schools.
All Kinds of Minds
The All Kinds of Minds’ mission is to help students who struggle with learning measurably improve their success in school and life by providing programs that integrate educational, scientific and clinical expertise.
American Student Achievement Institute
A website dedicated to whole school reform effort in the area of student achievement. There are some great powerpoint presentations that you can download at this site.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The vision of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is that all young people—especially those in tough neighborhoods—will graduate from school with the knowledge and skills they need for adult success. Its education investments have two primary aims: (1) To support initiatives that give more low-income parents the opportunity to send their children to high quality schools that produce strong results; and (2) To help families get needed services and support through stronger connections between schools and communities.
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
A diverse, international community of educators, forging covenants in teaching and learning for the success of all learners
Back to School Resources for Busy Teachers
Contains annotated links to teacher resources such as back-to-school activities, icebreakers, classroom management techniques, and related concepts and tools. Includes general teaching ideas and resources for English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers. From the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT).
Beacon Learning Center
What is Beacon? Beacon Learning Center is an online educational resource and professional development center currently funded through a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the U. S. Department of Education. The resources posted in the Beacon database are products of professional development activities teaching a standards-based planning model.
Brain Connection
BrainConnection.com is dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information about how the brain works and how people learn.
Campaign for Youth
The Campaign for Youth is an alliance of organizations and young leaders who are concerned about the persistence, yet seeming invisibility, of the challenges confronting more than 5 million young people who are disconnected from education, employment, and opportunity. The mission of the Campaign for Youth is to focus attention on the needs of young people who are out of work, out of school, and out of the mainstream.
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is a five-year project designed to strengthen the capacity of Head Start and child care programs to improve the social and emotional outcomes of young children. The Center will develop training and technical assistance (T/TA) materials that reflect evidence-based practices for promoting children's social and emotional development and preventing challenging behaviors.
Children of Divorce: Educational Achievement
Website that lists articles and other resources that correlate divorce and the disruption of student's academic achievement.
College Summit
College Summit works in partnership with schools, school districts, and colleges to develop a sustainable model for raising college enrollment rates community-wide. College Summit arms educators with resources to increase the college-going rate of all seniors, partners with school leadership to create a community-wide college-going culture of high expectations, and provides ongoing student data and technology to allow schools to carefully manage and innovate around college application management.
Discovery Education
Contains free lesson plans, teaching tools, homework helpers, and activities such as brain boosters, puzzlemaker, and study starters.
Donors Choose
DonorsChoose is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn.
edHelper.com
edHelper.com, developed by a team of teachers, is dedicated to providing educators quality educational resources. This site contains, calendars, lessons, graphic organizers, writing prompts and much more.
Education World
This website provides helpful information and resources for those who work in schools. Included are lesson plans, professional development ideas, technology tools, current school issues and a counseling center with resources that are school counselor specific.
Firstgov.gov: Back to School
The following links provide resources for students, parents, and educators in preparation for returning to school in the fall.
Florida's Positive Behavior Support Project
Nice videos on RtI and Positive Behavior Support
From Kindergarten Through Third Grade: Children's Beginning School Experiences
This report highlights children’s gains in reading and mathematics over their first 4 years of school, from the start of kindergarten to the point when most of the children are finishing third grade. It also describes children’s achievement status in reading, mathematics, and science at the end of third grade.
Helping Youth Succeed Through Out-of-School Time Programs
American Youth Policy Forum report on "Outside of School Time" programs around the United States produced by conducting a literature review, visiting communities, and inviting national experts and innovative program leaders to share their knowledge of such programs.
Indiana Guidance Resource Maps
American Student Achievement Institute posted four "Indiana Guidance Resource Maps" (primary, intermediate, middle, and high school) on our Guiding
Intervention Central
Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
Kentucky Department of Education's Electronic Individual Learning Plan
The web-enabled Individual Learning Plan (ILP) will help secondary students (grades 6-12) better focus their coursework on individual goals as they prepare for postsecondary studies and careers
Kids Health: Going back to school for kids
This link contains on going back from to school for children. From the first day jitters to transitioning to middle school, this link gives helpful tips to students to become successful, happy students.
Laboratory for Student Success
The Laboratory for Student Success is one of ten Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education to revitalize and reform educational practices in the service of student success. The overarching goal of the LSS is to strengthen the capacity of the Mid-Atlantic Region—which includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC—to enact and sustain lasting systemic educational reform through collaborative programs of applied research and development and services to the field.
Learning for Life
Learning for Life provides programs that are designed to support schools and other youth-serving organizations in their efforts toward preparing youth to successfully handle the complexities of today's society and to enhance their self-confidence, motivation, and self-worth. Learning for Life also helps youth develop social and life skills, assists in character development, and helps them formulate positive personal values.
Managing Your Classroom
The classroom climate has a powerful effect on how well students learn. Striking a balance between freedom and discipline is a skill that can make all the difference between a well-run classroom and classroom chaos. Here are some techniques educators are using to achieve such a balance.
Missouri Department of Education Lesson Plans
The Missouri Department of Education has new curriculum lessons and units. They are free to anyone who can use them. It is a comprehensive K-12 curriculum for all three areas: Personal/Social, Academic Development, and Career Development. It is cross-walked with the ASCA standards as well.
National Dropout Prevention Network
The mission of the National Dropout Prevention Center is to serve as a research center and resource network for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to reshape school and community environments to meet the needs of youth in at-risk situations so these students receive the quality education and services necessary to succeed academically and graduate from high school.
National Institute for Urban School Improvement
NIUSI supports inclusive, urban communities, schools, and families to build their capacity for sustainable, successful urban education by developing powerful networks of urban districts and schools that embrace and implement a data-based, continuous improvement approach for inclusive practices.
Naviance
Naviance is the world’s leading provider of web-based solutions for high school counselors. With a suite of research based academic planning and advising tools, WorkspaceK12® can support comprehensive counseling programs which promote the academic, career and personal/social development of all students. The Naviance Network includes more than 28,000 members from around the world who have joined together to increase the professional development of school counselors.
NEA's Read Across America
The National Educational Association's (NEA's) Read Across America is a year-round campaign designed to motivate and excite children to read, giving them the skills they need to be successful in school and beyond, and instilling in them a lifelong interest in books. Includes free downloadable resources and a free resource kit.
PEN NewsBlast
The PEN Weekly NewsBlast is a free e-mail newsletter featuring school reform and school fundraising resources. The PEN NewsBlast is the property of the Public Education Network, a national association of 70 local education funds working to improve public school quality in low-income communities nationwide.
Preparing All High School Students for College and Work: What High-Performing Schools Are Teaching
High schools that provide all students with high-level courses, qualified teachers, flexible teaching styles, and extra tutorial support are more successful in preparing their students for college and work, according to a new study by ACT and The Education Trust. The study defines, for the first time, the specific rigorous academic skills that need to be taught in English, math, and science courses for high school graduates to be ready for college and work.
Principal and School Counselor Collaboration
This link discusses collaboration in building high performing teams and creating a learning community that supports student success which is a byproduct of principal and counselor interactions.
Promoting America's Public Schools
Substantially updated and expanded in August 2005, this guide provides practical advice on communicating about public education with parents, the public and others.
Public School Insights
This inspiring new website that presents a fresh, 21st-century vision for public schools, with real examples of what is working in all kinds of public schools and districts. See how public schools—maybe even yours—are pursuing imaginative strategies to help students succeed. Hear insights from extraordinary people on public education’s front lines, listen to interviews with leading thinkers, and tell your story about success in your own public school or district. This website is hosted by the Learning First Alliance, a partnership of 18 major national education associations, including ASCA, that represent over 10 million dedicated educators, parents and education policymakers.
Results for Kids: Resources (RKR) Library
This work in progress is a large collection of information on eleven topics that address all struggling learners - with annotations and links to (a) evidence-based programs; (b) tools and strategies; (b) reports, studies, and guides; and (d) web-based resources. These cover a range of subjects/skills -- plus information on schools, districts, States, and more.
RTI Wire
A one stop directory of high-quality, free Response-To-Intervention resources available on line.
School Counselor Resources
Contains powerpoint presentations on a variety of school counseling topics.
SchoolBehavior.com: Awareness, Empathy, and Skills
Leslie E. Packer, PhD, created this site to help educators learn about neurobehavioral disorders -- the "hidden" disabilities that can impair a student's academic, behavioral, and social-emotional functioning. This website contains tips, materials, and strategies to help children with a variety of disorders and information on classroom behavior.
Student Success Skills
The Student Success Skills program was developed and tested by Drs. Brigman, Webb and Campbell, who teach in the Department of Counselor Education at Florida Atlantic University. The SSS model includes a group counseling and a classroom guidance curriculum designed to help students develop critically important cognitive, social and self-management skills. The SSS program is designed for students in grades 4-9.
Study Help and Practice Problems
Free Study Help and Practice Problems. Education.com now offers over 3,000 study guides and practice problems to assist high school students with homework and exam prep! Much of the content comes from McGraw-Hill and Learning Express.
Sue Teele & Associates: Multiple Intelligences
Contains resources available for purchase pertaining to multiple intelligences and student learning styles.
Teach-nology Lesson Plan Center
Search over 27,234 lesson plans, teaching ideas, and worksheets.
Teachers and Families
This site provides many great resources for school counselors.
Teaching Moments
Help for teachers, parents, counselors and group leaders interested in helping teenagers succeed. Accent On Success®, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping teenagers, offers a free PowerPoint slide presentation on how to set and achieve goals. The presentation is based on John Bishop’s award-winning book - Goal Setting for Students® and is specifically designed to show teens how they can use these principles in the classroom.
The Boost Campaign: High School Drop-out Prevention
The US Army, in conjunction with the Ad Council, launched the Boost campaign to support, encourage, and create an identity for high school students who may be at risk of dropping out. By featuring the real stories of potential graduates at risk of dropping out, the campaign encourages teens, parents and adult influencers to give struggling students in their own communities the boost (encouragement) they need to stay in school and graduate.
The Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI)
The Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI) is an evidence-based measure of trends over time in the quality of life or well-being of America’s children and young people. It comprises several interrelated composite/summary indices of annual time series of numerous social indicators of the well-being of children and young people in the United States. The composite indices give a sense of the overall direction of change (improvement or deterioration) in the well-being of America’s children and youth, as compared to two base years of the indicators, 1975 and 1985. From the Foundation for Child Development.
The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools
McKinsey & Company report finds that the underutilization of human potential as reflected in the achievement gap is extremely costly. Existing gaps impose the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession—one substantially larger than the deep recession the country is currently experiencing. For individuals, avoidable shortfalls in academic achievement impose heavy and often tragic consequences via lower earnings, poor health, and higher rates of incarceration.
The Joyce Ivy Foundation
The Joyce Ivy Foundation was established to promote the expansion of new and broader academic experiences for young women. As a non-profit organization, The Joyce Ivy Foundation is dedicated to the academic advancement of young women in the Midwest. The Foundation seeks to provide exposure, encouragement, counsel, financial assistance, and employment support to young women who have the potential to attend or do attend Ivy League and equivalent institutions.
The Kick Off Program
The Kick-Off Transition Program is a comprehensive transition, orientation and mentoring program welcoming new students and their parents to middle school and high school. Our experienced Kick-Off Trainers have worked with hundreds of schools all over the country and approximately 100,000 kids have gone through a Kick-Off Orientation Day, with that number growing every year.
The National Alliance of Pupil Services Organizations (NAPSO)
ASCA is a member of the National Alliance of Pupil Services Organizations (NAPSO), a coalition of national professional organizations whose members provide and support a variety of school-based prevention and intervention services to assist students in becoming effective learners and productive citizens.
The Reading with USA TODAY program
The Reading with USA TODAY program uses USA TODAY as its textbook, and the research-based reading lessons are designed to strengthen the reading comprehension and higher-order thinking skills of resistant readers so they will successfully pass their standardized reading test.
Time to Invent
The Time to Invent Club is an invention-based mentoring program developed by WGBH (Boston’s PBS station) and funded by the Lemelson Foundation. Fifth graders participate in fun, hands-on invention activities that spark their interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Truth in Labeling
Truth in Labeling is a collaborative effort of the NEA and the National Association of School Psychologists. The guide provides educators with basic information about disproportionality – what it is, what causes it, and what the implications are for students, schools, and the community. It offers recommendations on addressing disproportionality at the classroom, school, and community levels, and it includes helpful research references and resources.
Tutor.com
Provides a database of tutors offering online and face-to-face services in academic and nonacademic subjects.
Way to Go RI
Site to help Rhode Island students develop their path through school to college or a career.
What are my Learning Strengths?
Research shows that all human beings have at least eight different types of intelligence. Depending on your background and age, some intelligences are more developed than others. This activity will help you find out what your strengths are. Knowing this, you can work to strengthen the other intelligences that you do not use as often.
The organizations, Web sites and other resources listed here are not exhaustive, nor is their inclusion intended as an endorsement by the American School Counselor Association. Rather, these listings are intended to assist school counselors in their efforts to better address children's academic, career, and personal/social development needs.
Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve helps states raise academic standards and achievement so that all students graduate ready for college, careers and citizenship. Over the past decade, states have led the national movement to raise standards, improve teaching and learning, and hold schools more accountable.
Active Learning Foundation
This site has books, activities and other great resources for teachers, parents, counselors and others to help increase active learning in schools.
All Kinds of Minds
The All Kinds of Minds’ mission is to help students who struggle with learning measurably improve their success in school and life by providing programs that integrate educational, scientific and clinical expertise.
American Student Achievement Institute
A website dedicated to whole school reform effort in the area of student achievement. There are some great powerpoint presentations that you can download at this site.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The vision of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is that all young people—especially those in tough neighborhoods—will graduate from school with the knowledge and skills they need for adult success. Its education investments have two primary aims: (1) To support initiatives that give more low-income parents the opportunity to send their children to high quality schools that produce strong results; and (2) To help families get needed services and support through stronger connections between schools and communities.
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
A diverse, international community of educators, forging covenants in teaching and learning for the success of all learners
Back to School Resources for Busy Teachers
Contains annotated links to teacher resources such as back-to-school activities, icebreakers, classroom management techniques, and related concepts and tools. Includes general teaching ideas and resources for English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers. From the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT).
Beacon Learning Center
What is Beacon? Beacon Learning Center is an online educational resource and professional development center currently funded through a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the U. S. Department of Education. The resources posted in the Beacon database are products of professional development activities teaching a standards-based planning model.
Brain Connection
BrainConnection.com is dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information about how the brain works and how people learn.
Campaign for Youth
The Campaign for Youth is an alliance of organizations and young leaders who are concerned about the persistence, yet seeming invisibility, of the challenges confronting more than 5 million young people who are disconnected from education, employment, and opportunity. The mission of the Campaign for Youth is to focus attention on the needs of young people who are out of work, out of school, and out of the mainstream.
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is a five-year project designed to strengthen the capacity of Head Start and child care programs to improve the social and emotional outcomes of young children. The Center will develop training and technical assistance (T/TA) materials that reflect evidence-based practices for promoting children's social and emotional development and preventing challenging behaviors.
Children of Divorce: Educational Achievement
Website that lists articles and other resources that correlate divorce and the disruption of student's academic achievement.
College Summit
College Summit works in partnership with schools, school districts, and colleges to develop a sustainable model for raising college enrollment rates community-wide. College Summit arms educators with resources to increase the college-going rate of all seniors, partners with school leadership to create a community-wide college-going culture of high expectations, and provides ongoing student data and technology to allow schools to carefully manage and innovate around college application management.
Discovery Education
Contains free lesson plans, teaching tools, homework helpers, and activities such as brain boosters, puzzlemaker, and study starters.
Donors Choose
DonorsChoose is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn.
edHelper.com
edHelper.com, developed by a team of teachers, is dedicated to providing educators quality educational resources. This site contains, calendars, lessons, graphic organizers, writing prompts and much more.
Education World
This website provides helpful information and resources for those who work in schools. Included are lesson plans, professional development ideas, technology tools, current school issues and a counseling center with resources that are school counselor specific.
Firstgov.gov: Back to School
The following links provide resources for students, parents, and educators in preparation for returning to school in the fall.
Florida's Positive Behavior Support Project
Nice videos on RtI and Positive Behavior Support
From Kindergarten Through Third Grade: Children's Beginning School Experiences
This report highlights children’s gains in reading and mathematics over their first 4 years of school, from the start of kindergarten to the point when most of the children are finishing third grade. It also describes children’s achievement status in reading, mathematics, and science at the end of third grade.
Helping Youth Succeed Through Out-of-School Time Programs
American Youth Policy Forum report on "Outside of School Time" programs around the United States produced by conducting a literature review, visiting communities, and inviting national experts and innovative program leaders to share their knowledge of such programs.
Indiana Guidance Resource Maps
American Student Achievement Institute posted four "Indiana Guidance Resource Maps" (primary, intermediate, middle, and high school) on our Guiding
Intervention Central
Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
Kentucky Department of Education's Electronic Individual Learning Plan
The web-enabled Individual Learning Plan (ILP) will help secondary students (grades 6-12) better focus their coursework on individual goals as they prepare for postsecondary studies and careers
Kids Health: Going back to school for kids
This link contains on going back from to school for children. From the first day jitters to transitioning to middle school, this link gives helpful tips to students to become successful, happy students.
Laboratory for Student Success
The Laboratory for Student Success is one of ten Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education to revitalize and reform educational practices in the service of student success. The overarching goal of the LSS is to strengthen the capacity of the Mid-Atlantic Region—which includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC—to enact and sustain lasting systemic educational reform through collaborative programs of applied research and development and services to the field.
Learning for Life
Learning for Life provides programs that are designed to support schools and other youth-serving organizations in their efforts toward preparing youth to successfully handle the complexities of today's society and to enhance their self-confidence, motivation, and self-worth. Learning for Life also helps youth develop social and life skills, assists in character development, and helps them formulate positive personal values.
Managing Your Classroom
The classroom climate has a powerful effect on how well students learn. Striking a balance between freedom and discipline is a skill that can make all the difference between a well-run classroom and classroom chaos. Here are some techniques educators are using to achieve such a balance.
Missouri Department of Education Lesson Plans
The Missouri Department of Education has new curriculum lessons and units. They are free to anyone who can use them. It is a comprehensive K-12 curriculum for all three areas: Personal/Social, Academic Development, and Career Development. It is cross-walked with the ASCA standards as well.
National Dropout Prevention Network
The mission of the National Dropout Prevention Center is to serve as a research center and resource network for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to reshape school and community environments to meet the needs of youth in at-risk situations so these students receive the quality education and services necessary to succeed academically and graduate from high school.
National Institute for Urban School Improvement
NIUSI supports inclusive, urban communities, schools, and families to build their capacity for sustainable, successful urban education by developing powerful networks of urban districts and schools that embrace and implement a data-based, continuous improvement approach for inclusive practices.
Naviance
Naviance is the world’s leading provider of web-based solutions for high school counselors. With a suite of research based academic planning and advising tools, WorkspaceK12® can support comprehensive counseling programs which promote the academic, career and personal/social development of all students. The Naviance Network includes more than 28,000 members from around the world who have joined together to increase the professional development of school counselors.
NEA's Read Across America
The National Educational Association's (NEA's) Read Across America is a year-round campaign designed to motivate and excite children to read, giving them the skills they need to be successful in school and beyond, and instilling in them a lifelong interest in books. Includes free downloadable resources and a free resource kit.
PEN NewsBlast
The PEN Weekly NewsBlast is a free e-mail newsletter featuring school reform and school fundraising resources. The PEN NewsBlast is the property of the Public Education Network, a national association of 70 local education funds working to improve public school quality in low-income communities nationwide.
Preparing All High School Students for College and Work: What High-Performing Schools Are Teaching
High schools that provide all students with high-level courses, qualified teachers, flexible teaching styles, and extra tutorial support are more successful in preparing their students for college and work, according to a new study by ACT and The Education Trust. The study defines, for the first time, the specific rigorous academic skills that need to be taught in English, math, and science courses for high school graduates to be ready for college and work.
Principal and School Counselor Collaboration
This link discusses collaboration in building high performing teams and creating a learning community that supports student success which is a byproduct of principal and counselor interactions.
Promoting America's Public Schools
Substantially updated and expanded in August 2005, this guide provides practical advice on communicating about public education with parents, the public and others.
Public School Insights
This inspiring new website that presents a fresh, 21st-century vision for public schools, with real examples of what is working in all kinds of public schools and districts. See how public schools—maybe even yours—are pursuing imaginative strategies to help students succeed. Hear insights from extraordinary people on public education’s front lines, listen to interviews with leading thinkers, and tell your story about success in your own public school or district. This website is hosted by the Learning First Alliance, a partnership of 18 major national education associations, including ASCA, that represent over 10 million dedicated educators, parents and education policymakers.
Results for Kids: Resources (RKR) Library
This work in progress is a large collection of information on eleven topics that address all struggling learners - with annotations and links to (a) evidence-based programs; (b) tools and strategies; (b) reports, studies, and guides; and (d) web-based resources. These cover a range of subjects/skills -- plus information on schools, districts, States, and more.
RTI Wire
A one stop directory of high-quality, free Response-To-Intervention resources available on line.
School Counselor Resources
Contains powerpoint presentations on a variety of school counseling topics.
SchoolBehavior.com: Awareness, Empathy, and Skills
Leslie E. Packer, PhD, created this site to help educators learn about neurobehavioral disorders -- the "hidden" disabilities that can impair a student's academic, behavioral, and social-emotional functioning. This website contains tips, materials, and strategies to help children with a variety of disorders and information on classroom behavior.
Student Success Skills
The Student Success Skills program was developed and tested by Drs. Brigman, Webb and Campbell, who teach in the Department of Counselor Education at Florida Atlantic University. The SSS model includes a group counseling and a classroom guidance curriculum designed to help students develop critically important cognitive, social and self-management skills. The SSS program is designed for students in grades 4-9.
Study Help and Practice Problems
Free Study Help and Practice Problems. Education.com now offers over 3,000 study guides and practice problems to assist high school students with homework and exam prep! Much of the content comes from McGraw-Hill and Learning Express.
Sue Teele & Associates: Multiple Intelligences
Contains resources available for purchase pertaining to multiple intelligences and student learning styles.
Teach-nology Lesson Plan Center
Search over 27,234 lesson plans, teaching ideas, and worksheets.
Teachers and Families
This site provides many great resources for school counselors.
Teaching Moments
Help for teachers, parents, counselors and group leaders interested in helping teenagers succeed. Accent On Success®, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping teenagers, offers a free PowerPoint slide presentation on how to set and achieve goals. The presentation is based on John Bishop’s award-winning book - Goal Setting for Students® and is specifically designed to show teens how they can use these principles in the classroom.
The Boost Campaign: High School Drop-out Prevention
The US Army, in conjunction with the Ad Council, launched the Boost campaign to support, encourage, and create an identity for high school students who may be at risk of dropping out. By featuring the real stories of potential graduates at risk of dropping out, the campaign encourages teens, parents and adult influencers to give struggling students in their own communities the boost (encouragement) they need to stay in school and graduate.
The Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI)
The Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI) is an evidence-based measure of trends over time in the quality of life or well-being of America’s children and young people. It comprises several interrelated composite/summary indices of annual time series of numerous social indicators of the well-being of children and young people in the United States. The composite indices give a sense of the overall direction of change (improvement or deterioration) in the well-being of America’s children and youth, as compared to two base years of the indicators, 1975 and 1985. From the Foundation for Child Development.
The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools
McKinsey & Company report finds that the underutilization of human potential as reflected in the achievement gap is extremely costly. Existing gaps impose the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession—one substantially larger than the deep recession the country is currently experiencing. For individuals, avoidable shortfalls in academic achievement impose heavy and often tragic consequences via lower earnings, poor health, and higher rates of incarceration.
The Joyce Ivy Foundation
The Joyce Ivy Foundation was established to promote the expansion of new and broader academic experiences for young women. As a non-profit organization, The Joyce Ivy Foundation is dedicated to the academic advancement of young women in the Midwest. The Foundation seeks to provide exposure, encouragement, counsel, financial assistance, and employment support to young women who have the potential to attend or do attend Ivy League and equivalent institutions.
The Kick Off Program
The Kick-Off Transition Program is a comprehensive transition, orientation and mentoring program welcoming new students and their parents to middle school and high school. Our experienced Kick-Off Trainers have worked with hundreds of schools all over the country and approximately 100,000 kids have gone through a Kick-Off Orientation Day, with that number growing every year.
The National Alliance of Pupil Services Organizations (NAPSO)
ASCA is a member of the National Alliance of Pupil Services Organizations (NAPSO), a coalition of national professional organizations whose members provide and support a variety of school-based prevention and intervention services to assist students in becoming effective learners and productive citizens.
The Reading with USA TODAY program
The Reading with USA TODAY program uses USA TODAY as its textbook, and the research-based reading lessons are designed to strengthen the reading comprehension and higher-order thinking skills of resistant readers so they will successfully pass their standardized reading test.
Time to Invent
The Time to Invent Club is an invention-based mentoring program developed by WGBH (Boston’s PBS station) and funded by the Lemelson Foundation. Fifth graders participate in fun, hands-on invention activities that spark their interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Truth in Labeling
Truth in Labeling is a collaborative effort of the NEA and the National Association of School Psychologists. The guide provides educators with basic information about disproportionality – what it is, what causes it, and what the implications are for students, schools, and the community. It offers recommendations on addressing disproportionality at the classroom, school, and community levels, and it includes helpful research references and resources.
Tutor.com
Provides a database of tutors offering online and face-to-face services in academic and nonacademic subjects.
Way to Go RI
Site to help Rhode Island students develop their path through school to college or a career.
What are my Learning Strengths?
Research shows that all human beings have at least eight different types of intelligence. Depending on your background and age, some intelligences are more developed than others. This activity will help you find out what your strengths are. Knowing this, you can work to strengthen the other intelligences that you do not use as often.
The organizations, Web sites and other resources listed here are not exhaustive, nor is their inclusion intended as an endorsement by the American School Counselor Association. Rather, these listings are intended to assist school counselors in their efforts to better address children's academic, career, and personal/social development needs.