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Academic Youth
Development – Improving Achievement by Shaping the
Culture of Algebra Classrooms
As
students
get older, they have a lot to juggle…. especially as they
prepare for high
school.
Academic Youth
Development
supports the successful transition of students in Algebra 1.
Research
demonstrates
that relatively
modest interventions aimed at shaping the culture of ninth grade
classes can
have powerful effects on student success.
Key to the AYD
initiative is helping students understand that
intelligence is malleable, not fixed.
The
Academic Youth Development Initiative is:
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A
set of experiences designed to influence
student beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors about learning.
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An
intervention designed to create and support a
classroom culture of respectful engagement
The
initiative provides students and teachers with an explicit set of tools
and
strategies for applying these ideas in Algebra 1 classrooms and daily
learning.
Why
focus on the transition to Algebra 1?
Summer Bridge
Experience 2009 – 2010
Over
125 incoming 9th
graders spent their time not swimming or playing video games, instead,
students
built relationships with other students and with their future Algebra 1
teacher. This summer students from Akins, Anderson, Bowie, Crockett,
Lanier, Reagan and Travis:
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Learned
how to use mathematical clues in forensics science and crime
scene investigations.
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Increased
their math skills with new online tools that they can use at
school and at home.
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Learned
about what it takes to be a successful learner even in harder or
challenging courses.
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Learned
mathematics that will give them a jump start in Algebra 1
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Met
their
Algebra 1 teacher and many of their new classmates.
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Became
part of a learning community that will support them throughout their
freshman year.
Academic
Youth Development has been implemented with great success in
over 100 schools nationally this past year-including 40 in Texas. Austin
ISD is included in the list of success
stories that implemented AYD.
Success
has already been witnessed from Tier 1 implementation.
For more
information…
The Charles
A. Dana Center
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