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Reality Ride Sample Lesson
Sample Lesson About The Reality Ride The Reality Ride is often the first WhyTry visual metaphor that is introduced to a class or group. It uses a picture of a rollercoaster to demonstrate that each decision we make has a consequence. It illustrates to students that the decisions we make today directly affect the future.
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Dropout Prevention
Dropout Prevention An Effective Dropout Prevention Approach 2.1 million students are dropping out of school each year. By preventing these students from dropping out, we can improve quality of life, enhance earning potential, and reduce the costs to state and local governments. WhyTry is a social-emotional learning approach that specializes in reducing absenteeism and dropout. We engage students
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Rural Missouri School District
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
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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