NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Scholastic, the global children's publishing,
education, and media company, and the National Dropout
Prevention Center (NDPC) today announced combined efforts to
raise awareness of pervasive barriers to student learning and
provide school districts with increased access to professional
development, including research-based strategies that systemically
address these challenges, improving opportunities for all students
to achieve. The barriers affecting student success take many forms,
including social-emotional or behavioral challenges, factors
related to poverty, lack of family engagement, school climate,
safety, and attendance. According to the Scholastic Teacher
& Principal School Report:
- 87% of educators surveyed agree many of their students face
barriers to learning that come from outside the school
environment.
- Educators in higher-poverty schools are even more likely to
agree, with a nearly unanimous 98% saying this, yet it is also
still prevalent among 66% of educators in low-poverty schools.
As an Innovation Partner, Scholastic will collaborate with NDPC
to provide online and in-person opportunities for educators and
district leaders to benefit from the resources available around
learning supports from both organizations in the coming year. This
targeted support will help identify and remove barriers to learning
that affect student achievement while encouraging practices that
support students' development, such as learning to optimize
community resources, effectively engage families, utilize on-campus
counseling, and more. For ongoing thought leadership on the topic
of learning supports, visit http://edublog.scholastic.com.
"It is more important than ever that there is a concerted effort
to ensure that young people fully develop the social, emotional,
and academic skills needed to graduate and lead productive lives,"
said Dr. Sandy Addis, Executive
Director, National Dropout Prevention Center. "Scholastic is an
ideal partner to help us fulfill and expand our mission and we look
forward to working together to reduce barriers to learning and
reengage students in the learning process, cultivating the pathway
for increased student success."
"Scholastic is working in schools every day and we are
witnessing growing recognition of the importance of social
emotional learning, the challenges presented by learning barriers
from outside the classroom, and the imperative for learning
supports," noted Ron Mirr, Senior
Vice President of Learning Supports and Family and Community
Engagement (FACE), Scholastic Education. "The National Dropout
Prevention Center is a respected leader in this movement to better
support students and we are honored to partner with them so that
all learners have the opportunity to succeed, regardless of the
challenges around them."
Together, Scholastic and NDPC will author content and present at
regional and national conferences throughout the year to share
school improvement models that have had significant results in
districts across the country. Dr. Rhonda
Neal Waltman, Senior Director of Consultancy
Services—Learning Supports, is among the many Scholastic Education
experts who will be facilitating professional development
opportunities. The next upcoming event organized by Scholastic and
NDPC will be:
National Dropout Prevention Network Webcast: Solutions to the
Dropout Crisis
Ensuring All Students Succeed: The
Imperative for a Learning Supports Framework
- Presented by: Dr. Rhonda Neal
Waltman
- Date: November 14, 2017,
3:30–4:30 p.m. ET/12:30–1:30 p.m. PT
- Visit:
http://dropoutprevention.org/webcast/ensuring-all-students-succeed
About Scholastic:
Scholastic Corporation
(NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and distributor of
children's books, a leading provider of core literacy curriculum
and professional services, and a producer of educational and
entertaining children's media. The Company creates quality books
and ebooks, print and technology-based learning programs for pre-K
to grade 12, classroom magazines and other products and services
that support children's learning both in school and at home. With
operations in 14 international offices and exports to 165
countries, Scholastic makes quality, affordable books available to
all children around the world through school-based book clubs and
book fairs, classroom collections, school and public libraries,
retail and online. True to its mission of 97 years to encourage the
personal and intellectual growth of all children beginning with
literacy, the Company has earned a reputation as a trusted partner
to educators and families. Learn more
at www.scholastic.com.
About National Dropout Prevention Center:
National Dropout Prevention Center established in 1986 with a
mission to reduce dropout rates, NDPC shares solutions for student
success and dropout prevention through its clearinghouse function,
active research and evaluation projects, publications and a variety
of professional development activities and conferences. The
organization's website—www.dropoutprevention.org—is the nation's
leading resource in providing effective, research-based solutions
to engaging students and reducing dropout. The NDPC is housed in
the College of Education at Clemson
University in Clemson, South
Carolina. Learn more at www.dropoutprevention.org.
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