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Interesting Links

Illinois State Board of Education http://www.isbe.net

Regional Safe Schools Program - http://www.isbe.net/grants/html/regional_safe_schools.htm

Truants' Alternative and Optional Education Program - http://www.isbe.net/grants/html/taoep.htm

ISBE Quickstats (numbers of dropouts, chronic truants, etc. http://www.isbe.net/research/htmls/quickstats.htm

The Illinois' Truants Alternative and Optional Education Training and Technical Assistance Project http://www.taoep.net/

Getting Honest About Grad Rates: How States Play the Numbers and Students Lose describes the ”extremely unreliable” data that are used to determine high school dropout rates. http://www2.edtrust.org/EdTrust/Press+Room/HSGradRate2005.htm

Best Practices in Developing Truancy Reduction Programs  http://www.schoolengagement.org/TruancypreventionRegistry/Admin/Resources/Resources/8.pdf

10 Things a School can Do to Improve Attendance  http://www.schoolengagement.org/TruancypreventionRegistry/Admin/Resources/Resources/6.pdf

Joint Efforts to Improve School Attendance http://www.schoolengagement.org/TruancypreventionRegistry/Admin/Resources/Resources/13.pdf

Truancy Fact Sheet  http://www.schoolengagement.org/TruancypreventionRegistry/Admin/Resources/Resources/40.pdf

Character Education foundation http://www.heartofachampion.org

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ICEARY Conference 2011

March 10 & 11, Bloomington

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Link for the TAOEP Directory http://www.taoep.net/Directory.htm

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Today's Words of Wisdom

I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or deescalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

--Dr. Haim Ginott