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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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
