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What is your connection to education/teaching?: I am a middle school computer teacher with a time-capsule, 10-year class reunion project to lower our 60% dropout rate here in Dallas. The project was started in 2005. Our students feed into two highschools. Both high schools had record large graduation classes in 2009, a class which was made up of that class who first participated in our Archive Project.

Your School/System/Organization: Dallas Independent School District

Occupation/Position: Teacher

Blog: http://schoolarchiveproject.blogspot.com/

Website: http://www.studentmotivation.org

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Middle School Dropout Prevention Projects must focus far beyond the Freshman Transition

Posted on January 22, 2010 at 9:00pm 2 Comments 0 Likes

The greatest danger from some programs claiming to work on dropout prevention is that they actually fragment the educational process even more than it already is. Another transition is forced on students. Progress is hard to make. The goal should be to do the opposite. We must make the educational process more complete and goal centered, less fragmented. We must work to merge the available educational process with the students own story.

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At 8:35pm on January 21, 2010, Scott Habeeb said…: Thanks for joining the Freshman Transition Network. The network is, and always will be, a "work in progress". Your input and ideas will play a big role in making this a useful and interactive site. Please let me know if you have ideas.

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