Resources on Connectedness
"Developing policies and programs that promote school connectedness is a good educational strategy and a good public health strategy," writes Robert W. Blum and his colleagues in Improving the Odds: The Untapped Power of Schools to Improve the Health of Teens. The challenge is to understand what promotes school connectedness.
Read more:
Improving the Odds: The Untapped Power of Schools to Improve the Health of Teens. Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota. Blum, Robert William; McNeely, Clea; Rinehart, Peggy Mann. (2002).
http://allaboutkids.umn.edu/kdwbvfc/fr_pub.htm
An overview of the research on school connectedness and adolescent
health.
Journal of School Health, September 2004
The entire issue is devoted to school connectedness. Articles include
the Wingspread Declaration on School Connectedness, the latest research
on connectedness and examinations of programs aimed at building connectedness.
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Online:
Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation
To Learn
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084350/html/
Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation To Learn
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084350/html/
Reviews current research on what shapes adolescents' school engagement
and motivation to learn, including new findings on students' sense of
belonging and a look at ways these can be used to reform urban high schools.
Places to Be, Places to Belong: Youth Connectedness in School and Community
http://www.actforyouth.net/documents/PLACES_REPORT.pdf
This report is based on a dissertation that examines youth's feeling
of connectedness to their school and community in an upstate New York
community. The report focuses on 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders and includes
findings and suggested actions.
