January 2013 Blog Posts (4)

Dissertation on Ninth Grade Transition to High School

A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF A SUMMER SCHOOL INTERVENTION PROGRAM ON NINTH GRADE TRANSITION TO HIGH SCHOOL

Dr. Hasan Abdulmalik

This is my Dissertation that is a quantitative research study of how an intervention program can help ninth graders to transition to high school.

Research has…

Hi,

My article Games to Illustrate Human Performance: Perfect for Your Class was published in the Connecticut Journal of Science Education, Volume 50, Issue 1, Fall - Winter 2012 - 2013, pages 2 4 to 31.

If teachers belonging to The Freshman Transition Network would like a copy via email (no charge) please…

A year or so ago I had the opportunity to make a couple of trips to Portland, Oregon to work with the faculty and staff of David Douglas High School, Oregon's largest high school.  They wanted to build a Freshman Transition program.  Some of their faculty members had joined this site and had also read my book, The Ninth Grade Opportunity.  They decided that they wanted to build a transition program that utilized a…

I recently wrote a guest blog post for the NASSP's Ignite Blog.  Here is a link to that post:

http://nasspblogs.org/ignite/2013/01/02/why-do-freshman-academies-sometimes-fail/