Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year and thereafter, students with disabilities will be able to earn a New York State (NYS) Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) commencement credential. The CDOS commencement credential will replace the Individualized Education Program (IEP) diploma and will recognize each student’s preparation and skills for [...]
In a previous blog we discussed Improving Retention Using The Success Profiler®. In this study, the eleven scales of The Personal Skills Map® (a core assessment of The Success Profiler) were identified as critical factors in improving student retention and academic performance. This study takes a closer look at three [...]
The focus of this blog is on the all-important social/emotional learning skill of self-control, which is the seventh scale of twelve in the Personal Responsibility Map®, a core assessment in our Personal Responsibility—Achieving Academic and Career Goals program. Self-control is the ability to handle personal feelings and emotions in difficult [...]
Student retention is a primary concern for all post-secondary institutions. In a study conducted by the Research Department of the Minnesota House of Representatives on community college retention, 55% of new, entering students drop out of college by their second year of enrollment (Finc & Lehnertz, 1991). To address this [...]
A computer is made up of two main components: Hardware and software. Both are necessary for the computer to operate successfully. Without hardware your computer would not exist and software would have nothing to run on, and without software, you would simply have a machine, incapable of performing any kind of [...]
Supportive Environment is the amount to which friends, family, teachers and others around us value high achievement and positively encourage people in their goals. A supportive environment is a critical factor in the MTSS process. Multi-Tiered System of Supports, or MTSS, is a term used to describe an evidence-based model [...]
Labor Stats for Persons with Disabilities The U. S. Department of Labor recently released data on two important employment trends for persons with disabilities. Both of these statistics are troubling and to truly put this into terms that will help you understand, we wanted to take a visual approach. You [...]