Did You Know 1 in 10 Students Drop Out or Change Schools due to Bullying?
By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 31, 2011
For many of us the first day of school is right around the corner. Students and educators across the country are gearing up for another year and this year the issue of bullying and cyber-bullying is not only on the student’s minds but educators as well. This year, 160,000 students will skip school each day in fear of getting bullied. With these numbers as high as they are, it's not a big surprise that academic achievement is an increasing challenge in most schools. If you want take part in making a change in your schools academic achievement and pinpointing where exactly this begins, then you can't miss the first National Conference on School Engagement.
National Center for School Engagement Presents: The National Conference on School Success
Date: October 26-28, 2011
Location: Denver, Colorado
With regestration all conference participants will be given one year free membership to the School Climate Resource Center –Operated by the National School Climate Center
The National Center for School Engagement will bring together experts and cutting edge information about how to engage high risk students, families and communities in schools with specific outcomes of improving attendance, attachment, achievement and connectedness to school, and the real prize, high school completion. Usually these topics are dealt with separately at different topical conferences. We will bring it all together in one place at one time.
Students with poor attendance become truants and low achievers.
Truants disengage from school.
Victims of bullying disengage from school.
Disengaged and low performing students also have behavior problems that get them suspended.
Truant and suspended students get in trouble with the law and become delinquent.
Disengaged students drop out of school
The National Conference on School Success will address the interaction of all these conditions and provide new information on how they can improve Attendance, Attachment and Achievement in order to increase student, parent and community engagement in school.
