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Drive Achievement Through Resiliency™
Building Resilience to Improve
Academic Performance and
Graduation Rates
James Griffin
Melissa Schlinger
April 27th, 2013
April 29, 2013
James Griffin
• Principal, Lauderdale Lakes Middle School
• Florida’s Principal of the Year, 2011
Lauderdale Lakes
• 1090 students
‒ Title I school
‒ 87% African American
‒ 10% Hispanic
Social and Emotional Learning
• Focus on the whole child
• Providing a path out of poverty
• Connecting and modeling for students
What is Success Highways?
A research-based, proven program that helps students to develop the critical resiliency skills necessary for academic success.
Success Highways helps students to take ownership over their own education, recognize their control over their future, and persevere towards academic success.
NDPC highest rating: Strong Evidence of Effectiveness
Resiliency Research
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When investigating social emotional factors that
underlie academic performance, researchers have
identified essential RESILIENCY skills that are
scientifically linked to academic success.
Resiliency Research:
• Resiliency: a set of protective characteristics possessed by those who are able to adapt to hardship and succeed
• Resiliency skills are valuable for all students, and absolutely critical for students who possess at-risk characteristics.
• Proven strategies can help students develop the resilience to ensure risk factors do not result in school failure.
Six Critical Resiliency Skills
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1 • Goal Setting/Importance of School
2 • Academic confidence
3 • Strong connections with others
4 • Stress management
5 • Balanced sense of well-being
6 • Intrinsic motivation
Success Highways Components
• Resiliency Assessments & Reporting
• Resiliency Curriculum
• Professional Development
Revving Up Pre-Assessment:
Assessing Student Resiliency
Each student answers 108 questions covering the six critical resiliency skills:
• Importance of school
• Confidence
• Connections
• Stress management
• Sense of well-being
• Motivation
Assessing Resiliency
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• Revving Up Resiliency assessment
• Online or print delivery
• Grades 6-12
• 108 survey questions
• About 20-30 minutes to complete
Assessing Resiliency to Predict
Academic Success or Failure
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• Longitudinal research: Can we use resiliency data to
predict academic outcomes in later years?
• 5,000 middle school students who took the Revving Up
resiliency survey
• Followed for 3 years into high school
• Students who went on to be in the top 25% of their HS
class on attendance, behavior, grades had scored
significantly higher on resiliency measures that their
peers who went on to be in the bottom 25%
Risk and Success Profile Scores
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Success Profile Score
Mean resiliency scores
of top 25%
Risk Profile Score
Mean resiliency scores
of bottom 25%
Lauderdale Lakes
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Academic Risk and Success Profile Analysis
Needs Assessment Report
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Needs Assessment Report
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Mock data analysis
ELA: B
Math: B
Science: A
Social Studies: C
Attendance: 65%
Suspensions: 0
Mock data analysis
ELA: B
Math: A
Science: C
Social Studies: C
Attendance: 71%
Suspensions: 2
How do we use the data?
• Combine data with attendance, behavior,
academic performance
• Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 interventions
Success Highways Resiliency Curriculum
• Research based pedagogy for improving 6
critical resiliency skills
• Fifteen 45-minute lessons
• Lessons include variety of extensions and
enrichment that can be used beyond the 15
sessions.
Unit Methodology
Introduce, Connect & Define Concepts
Share your Experience
Explore the Concept
Interpret Student Data
Create Success Plans
Synthesize Ideas; Check for Understanding
Revving Up Student Report
Students who participate in the curriculum will have an
opportunity to receive individual data report and reflect on
their own resiliency, a key step to making improvements.
Unit Methodology
Introduce, Connect & Define Concepts
Share your Experience
Explore the Concept
Interpret Student Data
Create Success Plans
Synthesize Ideas; Check for Understanding
Post Test – Lauderdale Lakes
Percentage of students who demonstrated growth in
each area since pretest.
Post Test – Lauderdale Lakes
African American
N = 157
Other/more than 1
N = 21
Post Test – Lauderdale Lakes
Male students
N = 95
Female students
N = 103
Post Test – Individual Results
Success Highways Professional
Development and Support Services
• Data consultation (leadership)
• Building Resiliency in the Classroom (all staff)
• Success Highways curriculum implementation
(Success Highways teachers)
• Ongoing support (all)
Broward County results
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Broward County results
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Questions and Answers
Contact Us
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Drive Achievement Through Resiliency™
www.ScholarCentric.com
Melissa Schlinger [email protected]
James Griffin