The OIH Research-Based Strategies
The OIH Research-Based Strategies
- Adult Dropout – The OIH work with staff to ensure care for young adults who drop out of school and support the struggling students and support them by engaging, listening to, advising, and motivating them as they overcome barriers and complete education.
- The OIH Contextual Learning – The OIH provides opportunities for dropout students to make connections between knowledge and its applications to their lives as family members, citizens, and workers. In networking, it is throughout Contextual learning includes but is not limited to service learning, work-based education, project-based learning, and capstone projects.
- Expansion of the school year/structured learning time and summer transition programs –Many students who are in danger of or who have dropped out are often overage and have severe academic deficits, such as being under-credited toward high school graduation or lacking literacy, numeracy, and other academic skills. Often more time is needed to complete high school. These expanded learning time opportunities may also provide enrichment and socio-emotional support to increase school engagement and prepare students for academic success.
- The OIH Programs and systems are specifically designed to serve Dropout students, including migrants, English Learners, Immigrants, Refugees, and Newcomers – The OIH programs are intended to accelerate English language acquisition, develop academic content vocabulary and higher-level thinking skills, promote the development of social and educational skills that students will need when entering district high schools, build a foundation for long-term academic and socio-cultural success.
- The OIH provides advice for School Culture and Behavioral Health – The OIH behavioral health refers to all students social, emotional, and behavioral well-being, including those with mental health needs. Students’ behavioral health is intricately connected to academic, social, and emotional success at school.
- The OIH Pathway Development – Pathways for college, career, and civic readiness are intentional educational structures within a school system that enable students to build agency, identify personal interests, strengths, and talents, identify career interests aligned with those strengths and skills, and understand the connection of academic learning and future success.
- MY OIH Career and Academic Plan – A scope and sequence of lessons and activities implemented for dropout students to support the development of individual skills, interests, and talents that will drive the identification of careers of interest and align with course selections along with postsecondary choices.