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NDTAC Issue Brief: Supporting Student Achievement through Sound Behavior Management Practices in Schools and Juvenile Justice Facilities: A Spotlight on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

September 2013
This brief provides an overview of the link between student behavior and traditional school discipline responses and how both affect academic achievement. The brief also highlights PBIS as one alternative behavior management approach demonstrating promise for public schools and institutional setting...

NDTAC Brief: Improving Conditions for Learning for Youth Who Are Neglected or Delinquent

September 2013
Learning is not just a cognitive process; research shows that powerful social and emotional factors affect learning. By providing students with support that addresses these needs and building positive social and emotional conditions for learning, staff in facilities and schools can help improve lear...

Mentoring Toolkit: Resources for Developing Programs for Incarcerated Youth

October 2013
Research has demonstrated that adolescents with at least one high-quality supportive relationship with an adult are twice as likely as other youth to be economically self-sufficient, have healthy family and social relationships, and be productively involved in their communities (Gambone, Klem, &...

Program Highlights: Northern Virginia Detention Center

January 2014
The Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center is a secure, pre- and postdisposition center outside of Washington, DC. The faculty approaches educational programming from the premise that for many students, engaging in educational programming while in a juvenile detention facility affords them the ...

Program Highlights: Stadium View School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

January 2014
This profile highlights Stadium View, a short-term stay school in the Juvenile Detention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With an active parent council and partnerships with more than 70 community organizations, this program is the only short-term correctional educational school outside the state o...

Program Highlights: Accessing Online Supplemental Textbook Material

May 2014
This Program Highlight is the first in a series exploring the use of educational technology in juvenile secure-care facilities. This Highlight examines three facilities in Indiana and their efforts to provide access to online supplemental textbook materials to teachers and studen...

Program Highlights: International Computer Driving License Program

May 2014
This Program Highlight is the second in a series exploring the use of educational technology in juvenile securecare facilities. This Highlight examines the experience of Loysville Youth Development Center (LYDC) with implementing an online computer skills certificate program...

Program Highlights: Oregon Virtual School District

May 2014
This Program Highlight is the third in a series exploring the use of educational technology in juvenile securecare facilities. This Highlight examines Oregon’s Stateoperated juvenile justice facilities and their use of a virtual school district to provide online academic content ...

Letter from Secretary Duncan and Attorney General Holder about Incarcerated Youth

June 2014
The Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, and the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, have released a joint letter about the education of students who are incarcerated, available at http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/secletter/140609.html. Additional information can be found o...

Reentry Mythbuster: Education Technology

July 2014
This Reentry Council MythBuster on Education Technology in Juvenile Facilities features information and examples on how to use technology effectively in juvenile justice settings.  While concerns over youth and community safety often prevent facilities from pursuing such options, stat...

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