School Connectedness and Academic Engagement References and Further Readings

School Connectedness

Baker, J. (1999). Teacher-student interaction in urban at risk classrooms: Differential behavior, relationship quality, and student satisfaction with school. The Elementary School Journal, 100: 57-70. Order from: Infotrieve, http://www.infotrieve.com or ISI, http://ids.isinet.com or access through JSTOR subscription. Battistich, V. and Horn, A. (1997). The relationship between students’ sense of their school as a community and their involvement in problem behaviors. American Journal of Public Health, 87(12): 1997-2001. Available at: http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/87/12/1997

Battistich, V., Solomon, D., Kim, D., Watson, M., & Schaps, E. (1995). Schools as communities, poverty levels of student populations, and students' attitudes, motives, and performance: A multilevel analysis. American Educational Research Journal, 32: 627-658.

Berktold, J., Geis, S., Kaufman, P. (1998). Subsequent educational attainment of high school dropouts. Washington , DC: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Available at: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98085.pdf Bluestein, J. (2001). Creating emotionally safe schools. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications Inc.

Blum, R.(2005). School Connectedness: Improving the Lives of Students. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Available at: www.jhsph.edu/mci/resources/School%20Connectedness

Blum, R. (2005). Tip sheets for administrators and teachers. The Military Child Initiative, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (2005) Available at: www.jhsph.edu/mci/resources/School%20Connectedness

Bryk, A. & Driscoll, M. (1988). The high school as community: Contextual influences and consequences for students and teachers. Madison: University of Wisconsin, National Center on Effective Secondary Schools.

Bryk, A.S & Schneider, B. (2002). Trust in Schools: A core resource for improvement. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Connell, J., & Wellborn, J. (1991). Competence, autonomy, and relatedness: A motivational analysis of self-system processes. In M. Gunnar & L. Sroufe (Eds.), Self processes in development: Minnesota symposium on child psychology, vol.23. Hillsdale , NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Deiro, J. (2003) Do Your Students Know You Care? Educational Leadership, March 2003, pp.60-62. Order from: http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.459dee008f99653fb85516f762108a0c/?javax.portlet.tpst=d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journaltypeheaderimage=%2FASCD%2Fimages%2Fmultifiles%2Fpublications%2Felmast.gif&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_viewID=abstract_view&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journalmoid=44ceae0fb6eaff00VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_articlemoid=519fae0fb6eaff00VgnVCM

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Freiberg, H.J. (1998). Measuring school climate: Let me count the ways. Educational Leadership, 56(1): 22-26. Order from: http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.459dee008f99653fb85516f762108a0c/?javax.portlet.tpst=d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journaltypeheaderimage=%2FASCD%2Fimages%2Fmultifiles%2Fpublications%2Felmast.gif&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_viewID=abstract_view&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journalmoid=3841b9e875eaff00VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_articlemoid=cb91b9e875eaff00VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journalTypePersonalization=ASCD_EL&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=token&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=token/#Measuring_School_Climate:_Let_Me_Count_the_Ways

Gonder P, & Hymes D. (1994). Improving School Climate & Culture. American Association of School Administrators. Available at: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/26/e1/ac.pdf

Haynes NM (1996). Creating Safe and Caring School Communities: Comer School Development Program Schools. Journal of Negro Education, 65(3): 308-314. Order from: http://www.journalnegroed.org/samplesubcription.html or access through JSTOR subscription.

Haynes NM, & Comer JP (1993). The Yale School Development Program: Process, Outcomes, and Policy Implications. Urban Education, 28: 166-199. Order from: http://uex.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/2/166

Hoy, W.K. and Sabo, D.J. (1998). Quality middle schools: Open and healthy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Klem, A.M., and Connell, J.P. (in press). Engaging Youth in School. In L.R. Sherrord, C. Flanagan, R. Kassimir (Eds.), Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Co. Available at: http://www.irre.org/publications/pdfs/Engaging_Youth_9-8-04.pdf

Lee, V.E., Smith, J.B., Perry, T.E., & Smylie, A. (1999). Social support, academic press, and student achievement: A view from the middle grades in Chicago. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research. Available at: www.consortium-chicago.org/publications/p0e01.html

McNeely, C.A. (2004). Connection to School as an Indicator of Positive Youth Development. In Lippman, L. and Moore, K., (eds.) Indicators of Positive Youth Development. Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.

McNeely, C.A. and C. Falci (2004). School Connectedness and the Transition Into and Out of Health Risk Behavior among Adolescents: A Comparison of Social Belonging and Teacher Support. Journal of School Health, 74(7):284-292. Available at: http://www.allaboutkids.umn.edu/WingfortheWeb/42189%20AmSch_McNeely.pdf

Muller, C. (2001). The role of caring in the teacher-student relationship for at-risk students. Sociological Inquiry, 71(2): 241-255. Order from: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-682X.2001.tb01110.x

National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine. (2004). Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn. Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and

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Motivation to Learn. Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Osher, D., Dwyer, K., Jackson, S. (2003). Safe, Supportive, and Successful Schools: Step by Step. Longmont, CO: Sopris West.

Osterman KF (2000). Students’ need for belonging in the school community. Review ofEducational Research, 70: 323-367. Available at: http://rer.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/70/3/323

Perkins BK (2006). Where We Learn: The CUBE Survey of Urban School Climate. Alexandria, VA: Council of Urban Boards of Education, National School Boards Association. Available at: http://www.nsba.org/site/docs/38100/38081.pdf

Phillips, M. (1997). What makes schools effective? A comparison of the relationships of communitarian climate and academic climate to mathematics achievement and attendance during middle school. American Educational Research Journal, 34(4): 633-662.

Resnick, M.D., Bearman, P.S., & Blum, R.W. et al. (1997). Protecting adolescents from harm: findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health. Journal of the American Medical Association, 278: 823-832. Abstract: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/278/10/82. Order from: Infotrieve http://www.infotrieve.com or Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) http://www.isidoc.com.

Rutter, M., Maughan, B., Mortimore, P., & Ouston, J. (1979). Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and their Effects on Children. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Ryan, R. & Deci, E. (2000) Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55: 68-78. Order from: http://content.apa.org/journals/amp/55/1/68

Shouse, R. (1996). Academic press and sense of community: Conflict and congruence in American high schools. In A. Pallas (Ed.), Research in sociology of education and socialization, volume II (pp.173-202). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.  

Skinner, E. & Belmont, M. (1993). Motivation in the classroom: Reciprocal effects of teacher behavior and student engagement across the school year. Journal of Educational Psychology, 85: 571-581. Order from: http://content.apa.org/journals/edu/85/4/571

Tableman B (2004). School Climate and Learning Best Practices Brief. A product of the University-Community Partnerships at Michigan State University. Available at http://outreach.msu.edu/bpbriefs/issues/brief31.pdf

Wasley, P., Fine, M., Gladden, M., Holland, N., King, S., Mosak, E., and Powell, L. (2000). Small schools, great strides: A study of new small schools in Chicago. New York: Bank Streets College. Available at: http://www.bankstreet.edu/gems/publications/smallschools.pdf

 Yowell, C. (1999). The role of the future in meeting the challenge of Latino school dropouts. Educational Foundations,13: 5-28. Order from: http://web.njcu.edu/sites/edfoundations/Content/documents.asp

Academic Strategies

Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of Mind: The theory of multiple intelligences. New York: Basic Books.

Kagan, S. (2000). Kagan Structures - Not One More Program. A Better Way to Teach Any Program. Kagan Online Magazine, Fall 2000. Available at: http://www.kaganonline.com/KaganClub/FreeArticles/ASK10.html

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Lee, V.E., Smith, J.B., Perry, T.E., & Smylie, A. (1999). Social support, academic press, and student achievement: A view from the middle grades in Chicago. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research. Available at: www.consortium-chicago.org/publications/p0e01.html

Lee, V.E. & Smith, J.B. (1999). Social support and achievement for young adolescents in Chicago: The role of school academic press. American Educational Research Journal, 36: 907-945.

Lee, V.E. & Smith, J.B. (2001). Restructuring high schools for equity and excellence: What works. Sociology of education series. New York: Teachers College Press. Order from: http://store.tcpress.com/product35.html

Legters, N., Balfanz, R., & McPartland, J. (2002). Solutions for Failing High Schools: Converging Visions and Promising Models. Baltimore, MD: Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University. Available at: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/hs/legters.doc

Marks, H.M., Secada, W. and Doane, K. (1996). Social support for achievement: Building intellectual culture in restructuring schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center. Available at: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/22/c1/75.pdf

MetLife. (2001) The MetLife Survey of the American teacher 2001: Key elements of quality schools. New York, NY: Author. Available at: http://www.metlife.com/WPSAssets/26575530001018400549V1F2001ats.pdf

National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine. (2004). Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn. Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn. Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Phillips, M. (1997) What makes schools effective? A comparison of the relationships of communitarian climate and academic climate to mathematics achievement and attendance during middle school. American Educational Research Journal, 34(4): 633-662.

Schaps E (2005). The Role of Supportive School Environments In promoting Academic Success. In Getting Results: Update 5, Student Health, Supportive Schools, and Academic Success was developed by the Safe and Healthy Kids Program Office, California Department of Education. Available at: http://www.devstu.org/about/articles/getResults.html

Shouse, R. (1996) Academic press and sense of community: Conflict and congruence in American high schools. In A. Pallas (Ed.), Research in sociology of education and socialization, volume II (pp.173-202). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.  

Shouse, R.D. (1996). Academic press and sense of community: Conflict, congruence, and implications for student achievement. Social Psychology of Education, 1: 47-68. Order from: https://www.springerlink.com/content/n4880w473g803w73/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf

Shouse, R.D. (1997). Academic press, sense of community, and student achievement. In J.S. Coleman, B. Schneider, S. Plank, K.S. Schiller, R. Shouse, and H. Wang, Redesigning American Education (pp. 60-86). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Skinner, E. & Belmont, M. (1993) Motivation in the classroom: Reciprocal effects of teacher behavior and student engagement across the school year. Journal of Educational Psychology, 85: 571-581. Order from: http://content.apa.org/journals/edu/85/4/571

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Varlas, L. (2002 Winter). Getting Acquainted with the Essential Nine. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Curriculum Update available at: http://www.middleweb.com/MWLresources/marzchat1.html. Adapted from Marzano, R., Pickering, D., & Pollock, J. (2001) Classroom Instruction That Works. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. Wasley, P., Fine, M., Gladden, M., Holland, N., King, S., Mosak, E., and Powell, L. (2000). Small schools, great strides: A study of new small schools in Chicago. New York: Bank Streets College. Available at: http://www.bankstreet.edu/gems/publications/smallschools.pdf

Wentzel, K. (2002). Are effective teachers like good parents? Teaching styles and student adjustment in early adolescence. Child Development, 73: 287-301. Order from: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8624.00406

Wiggins, G. & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by Design, 2nd expanded edition. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Yowell, C. (1999) The role of the future in meeting the challenge of Latino school dropouts. Educational Foundations, 13: 5-28. Order from: http://web.njcu.edu/sites/edfoundations/Content/documents.asp

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