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
How to Get Students to Pay Attention in Class Want to break through the distractions and get students to pay attention in class? Be relevant! Students are increasingly distracted in the classroom. Recently, a teacher exclaimed to one of our trainers… “It feels like I’m competing with YouTube… and losing!” Vernon Johnson, High School Math
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