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Understanding A Sense Of School Membership For Students With Disabilities In Two Middle Schools, Heather Holland
Understanding A Sense Of School Membership For Students With Disabilities In Two Middle Schools, Heather Holland
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In today’s educational system, a conversation that is often deprioritized is the need to consider students’ affective skills. One such aspect of this domain is how students feel as a member of their school environment. This need to belong is a basic psychological need (Goodenow, 1993); however, this is a critical component for students who may be marginalized, such as students with disabilities (Hagborg, 1998b). Hagborg (1998b) projected during his study that SWDs would have a lower sense of school membership that their non-disabled peers due, but the results of his study found that SWDs had comparable rates. Hagborg concluded …
High School Transformation: The Lived Experience Of Teachers Moving To Small Learning Environments, Reginald Lawrence
High School Transformation: The Lived Experience Of Teachers Moving To Small Learning Environments, Reginald Lawrence
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Author's abstract: Educators faced with a decline in student achievement and increases in dropout rates are seeking ways to provide the best possible educational environment for students (Oxley, 2005). High school transformation, also known as the small schools movement, is a reform that is gaining currency in the world of education (Meier, 2006). Alien (2001) observed that high school transformation is the process of altering the makeup of a large comprehensive high school, also known as a traditional high school, into small high schools or small learning communities at the same location. The teacher is the most important component of …