Research Research Summary WhyTry has changed the lives of 6-year-olds and 18-year-olds, rural and inner-city youth, males and females, and children from a variety of races, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds. Read on to explore these case studies. Elementary Middle School Secondary WhyTry: An Evidence-Based Program WhyTry is an evidence-based resilience education program, and aligns with […]
Rural Missouri School District WhyTry was implemented for 10 weeks as an after-school tutoring program. This study took place in a rural district in Southeast Missouri, where the county unemployment rate is typically triple the state average. Seventy percent of the student bodies of 1100 qualify for free/reduced-price school lunches. The WhyTry Program was implemented
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Peoria High School The WhyTry Program was taught in a classroom setting in 22-minute sessions. 43-year-old Brett Elliott came on as principal at one of the lowest-scoring high schools in Illinois on standardized reading, math, and science exams. Behavioral referrals amounted to a mindboggling 19,500 in the previous school year, and the number of out-of-school
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Wicomico County, MD To ease the transition from elementary to middle school, the WhyTry program is taught on a school-wide level. The transition between elementary school and middle school can be difficult to make. That is why Liz Hastings, Principal at Bennett Middle School, has focused on training her 6th-grade teachers on how to implement
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Success Stories Lake Chelan School District Learn how staff, administrators, and students all worked together to improve academic success by combining WhyTry with a peer support network. Bismarck Public Schools Learn how Wendy Bakken, a Speech Pathologist at Bismarck High School, uses WhyTry to engage and motivate any student. Holly Rohrer Behavior Intervention Specialist, Rudyard
