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Drive Achievement Through Resiliency™

Building Resilience to Improve

Academic Performance and

Graduation Rates

James Griffin

Melissa Schlinger

April 27th, 2013

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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 m.schlinger@scholarcentric.com

James Griffin

james.f.griffin@browardschools.com