Addressing Dropout Related
Factors at the Local Level:
Recommendations for
Administrators
DRAFT by GARCIA
PROJECT 10
NDPC-SD: National Dropout Prevention
Center for Students with Disabilities
Addressing Dropout Related Factors at
the Local Level: Recommendations for
Administrators (Smith & Bost, 2008)
http://www.ndpc-sd.org/documents/LEA_Recommendations_for_Administrators.pdf
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Introduction
• State Education Agencies (SEAs)
lead the charge for effective
change, impact, and sustainability
in the adoption and
implementation of programs and
practices that promote school
completion.
Introduction, concl.
SEAs’ role in capacity building in the
area of dropout prevention is key;
however, administrators and
educators are closest to students
and will have the greatest direct
impact in improving school
completion rates.
In this training, administrators will
learn strategies for developing:
1. An efficient infrastructure that
utilizes data-based decision
making;
2. Effective instruction that
challenges & actively involves
students; and
3. An engaging school climate.
1. Infrastructure
a) Establish a framework for local
implementation.
b) Utilize data-based decision
making.
1. Infrastructure, cont.
c) Address school completion at
multiple levels.
d) Adopt and support the
implementation of evidencebased practices.
Tertiary
Secondary
Universal
1. Infrastructure, concl.
e) Expand policy pathways.
f) Stimulate and support change.
2. Instruction
a) Focus on effective instruction.
b) Improve instructional content
and pedagogy.
Instruction, cont.
c) Provide transition-focused
education for students with IEPs.
d) Provide specialized supports to
students who enter school with
poor academic skills.
Instruction, concl.
e) Assist students in addressing
problems that interfere with
learning.
School Climate
a) Create a personalized and orderly
learning environment.
b) Encourage relationship building.
3. School Climate, concl.
c) Listen and support student voice.
d) Increase family engagement and
school involvement.
In closing …
Administrators have a key and vital
role in dropout prevention and
school completion for students
with disabilities.
Project 10 Contact
Information
Project 10: Transition Education
Network, University of South
Florida St. Petersburg
140 7th Avenue South, SVB 108
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
www.project10.info
Region 1: Northwest FL
Lori A. Garcia
Office/Cell: (850) 543-9919
Email: lorigarcia@mail.usf.edu
http://www.project10.info/DistrictY
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Region 2: Northeast FL
Patrick Mulvihill
Telephone: (386) 585-8317
Cell: (352) 262-2502
Fax: (386) 437-8396
E-Mail: pmulvihill@mail.usf.edu
Region 3: East Central FL
Heather Mack
Telephone: (321) 298-1759
E-Mail: hmack1@mail.usf.edu
Region 4: West Central FL
Federico Valadez
Telephone: (727) 873-4653
E-Mail: fvaladez@mail.usf.edu
Region 5: South FL
Lisa Friedman-Chavez
Telephone: (305) 964-6687
E-Mail: lfchavez@mail.usf.edu
Principal Investigator/
Project Director
Jordan T. Knab, Ed.S.
University of South Florida St. Pete
140 Seventh Avenue South, SVB 108
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Telephone: (727) 873-4662
Fax: (727) 873-4660
E-mail: jknab@mail.usf.edu