Relevant Publications on the Internet

• Elementary
  • Easing the Transition for PreK to Kindergarten: What Schools Can Do to Address Child Readiness
  • Kindergarten Transition (2002) Harvard Family Research Project
  • Recess in Elementary School: What Does the Research Say?
  • Transition to Kindergarten (Fact Sheet)

• Middle School
  • Helping Middle School Students Make the Transition into High School
  • Middle and High school Transitions as Viewed by Students, Parents, and Teachers
  • Student Perception of the Transition from Elementary to Middle School
  • Supporting Students in the Transition to Middle School. (2002) A Position Paper.
  • The Transition to Middle School
  • Welcome to Our School – A Transition from Elementary to Middle School

• High School
  • Improving the Educational Possibilities of Urban High School Students as They Transition from 8 to 9 Grade
  • Managing the Transition to Ninth Grade in a Comprehensive Urban High School
  • The Ninth-grade Bottleneck: An Enrollment Bulge in a Transition Year that Demands Careful Attention and Action
  • State and District-level Support for Successful Transitions into High School
  • Toward Ensuring a Smooth Transition into High School
  • Transition from Middle School into High School (2000)

• Truancy/dropout prevention
  • Approaches to Truancy Prevention
  • Dropout Prevention for Students with Disabilities: A Critical Issue for State Education Agencies
  • New Approaches to Truancy Prevention in Urban Schools
  • Truancy Prevention Through Mediation Program

• General
  • Adolescence, School Transitions, and Prevention: A Research-Based Primer
  • Back to School Teen Health Kit for Parents
  • Back to School Time - Tips to Help Children Adjust
  • Back to School Tips
  • California Department of Education - Transition Portfolios and Guides
  • The Community Welcome Center
  • Effective Strategies for Successful Freshman Transition
  • Effective Truancy Prevention and Intervention: A Review of Relevant Research
  • First Day Foundation
  • A Guide for Professionals Serving Youth with Educational and Career Development Challenges
  • Highly Mobile Children and Youth with Disabilities: Policies and Practices in Five States–
  • Impacts of a Summer Learning Program
  • Improving Transfer and Articulation Policies
  • Individualized transition plan for student support
  • "Ingredients of a Successful Summer Learning Program (2007) J. Capizzano, et al., Urban Institute."
  • "Intersection: Navigating the Road to Work"
  • Life Advice About... Your Child's First Day At School
  • Managing Transitions
  • National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
  • Parents and the School-to-Work Transition of Special Needs Youth
  • Participate in a District Goals to make your School a Wonderful Place for Newcomers
  • Patterns of Urban Student Mobility and Local School Reform
  • Psychiatric Facility and School Transition Initiative
  • Overcoming Barriers to School Re-entry, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
  • "Is Recess a Frivolous Waste of Time with no Apparent Outcomes?" (2007) R. Clements, Teacher College Record"
  • Rescuing Recess
  • School Re-entry of Juvenile Offenders (From CSMHA)
  • Schools that Welcome Parents
  • "Student Mobility and Academic Achievement" (2002) Eric Digest
  • Transition assistance to youth with mental health needs. (2008)
  • Transition One Stop - Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky
  • Transition Planning: A Team Effort
  • Transition Planning: Community mapping as a tool for teachers and students
  • Transition Planning For Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities
  • Website Collects Resources for Transition-to-College Programs
  • Welcome Wagon: Districts Welcoming Newcomers in High-tech Ways
  • Welcoming a Non-English Speaking Student to Your Class
  • Work, Postsecondary Education, and Psychosocial Functioning Following the Transition From High School. (2005) R. Aseltine & S. Gore, Journal of Adolescent Research, 20(6) 615-639

Selected Materials from our Clearinghouse

• Empowerment in Transition Planning: Guidelines for Special Educators
• Transition Support for Immigrant Students

Related Agencies and Websites

• Center for Summer Learning (Johns Hopkins University)
• Healthy and Ready To Work
• National Center for Early Development and Learning
• National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
• National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
• National Institute on Out-of-School Time
• National Technical Assistance Center on Youth Transitions
• National Transition Network (NTN)
• Transition Coalition

• A Longitudinal Study of School Adjustment in Urban, Minority Adolescents: Effects of a High School Transition Program. By Reyes, O., Gillock, K., & Kobus, K., 1994. In American Journal of Community Psychology, 22(3), 341-369.
• A study of student attitudes toward school during the transition from middle school to high school. By T.M. Letrello. (2002). Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities & Social Sciences, 63(4-A), 1255.
• Achievement Loss Associated With the Transition to Middle School and High School. By Alspaugh, J.W., Sept/Oct 1998. In The Journal of Educational Research, 92 (1), 20-5.
• Assessing the transitions to middle and high school. By B.K. Barber, J.A. Olsen. (2004). Journal of Adolescent Research, 1(19), 3-30.
• Changes in Young Adolescents' Self-Perceptions Across the Transition from Elementary to Middle School. By Mullins, E.R., 1997. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Georgia, Athens.
• Classroom Goal Orientation, School Belonging and Social Goals as Predictor of Students' Positive and Negative Affect Following the Transition to Middle School. By Anderman, L.H., 1999. In Journal of Research and Development in Education, 32(2), 89-103.
• Declining Motivation AFter the Transition to Middle School: Schools Can Make a Difference. By Anderman, E.M., Maehr, M.L., and Midgley, C., 1999. In Journal of Research and Development in Education, 32(3), 131-147.
• Developing an Effective Transition Program for Students Entering Middle School or High School. By K. M. Cauley, D. Jovanovich. (2006). The Clearing House, 1(80), 15-25.
• Effects of Feeder Patterns on Students' Transition to High School By Schiller, K.S., Oct 1999. In Sociology of Education, 72(4), 216-233.
• Elementary to Middle School: Planning for Transition.By Perkins, P.G. & Gelfer, J.I., Jan/Feb 1995. In The Clearing House, 68(3), 47-51.
• Facilitating Student Transitions into Middle School. By Stoffner, M.F. & Williamson, R.D., Mar 2000. In Middle School Journal, 31(4), 47-51.
• Helping transfer students: Strategies for educational and social readjustment. By L. A. Jason; A.M. Weine; J.H. Johnson; L. Warren-Sohlberg; and others. (1992). Jossey-Bass Inc, Publishers: San Francisco, CA.
• Mean-ends Problems-solving Skills, Life Stress, and Social Support as Mediators of Adjustments in the Normative Transition to High School. By Barone, C., Aguirre-Deandreis, A.I., & Trickett, E.J., 1991. By American Journal of Community Psychology, 19(2), 207-225.
• Meeting the Needs of Young Adolescents: Advisory Groups, Interdisciplinary Teaching Teams, and School Transition Programs. By Mac Iver, D.J., 1990. In Phi Delta Kappan, 71(6), 458-464, EJ 402 385.
• Mobility. By W.R. Capps & M.E. Maxwell. (2002). American School Board Journal, 189(5), 26-29.
• Mobility and the Achievement Gap. By H. Skandera & R. Sousa. (2002). Hoover Digest: Research and Opinion on Public Policy, 3, 1-5.
• On the road to nowhere? Young disabled people and transition. By B. Beresford. (2004). Child: Care, Health, and Development, 30(6), 581-587.
• Parental involvement during the transition to high school. By T. Falbo, L. Lein & N.A. Amador. (2001). Journal of Adolescent Research, 16(5), 511-29.
• Parental resources and the transition to junior high. By S.W. Grolnick, O.C. Kurowski, G.K. Dunlap & C. Hevey. (2000). Journal of Research on Adolescence, 10(4), 465-488.
• Patterns of social support in the middle childhood to early adolescent transition: Implications for adjustment. By M. J. Levitt, J. Levitt, G. L. Bustos, N. A. Crooks, J. D. Santos, P. Telan, J. Hodgetts, A. Milevsky. (2005). Social Development, 14(3).
• The Pivotal year: rough transitions can make ninth grade little more than a holding tank for high school. By S. Black. (2004). American School Board Journal, February 2004
• Planning successful transitions from school to adult roles for youth with disabilities. By G. A. King, P. J. Baldwin, M. Currie, J. Evans. (2005). Children's Health Care, 34(3), 191-216
• Planning the transition process: A model for teachers of preschoolers who will be entering kindergarten. By J.I. Gelfer & J. Mc Carthy. (1994). Early Development and Care, 104, 79-84.
• Postsecondary education and transition for students with learning disabilities, second edition. By L. C. Brinckerhoff, J. M. McGuire, S. F. Shaw. (2002). PRO-ED, Inc., Publishers: Austin, TX.
• Risk factors, protective factors, vulnerability, and resilience: a framework for understanding and supporting the adult transitions of youth with high-incidence disabilities. By C. Murray. (2003). Remedial and Special Education, 24.
• Role Strains and the Transition to Middle School: Longitudinal Trends and Sex Differences.By Fenzel, L.M., 1989. In Journal of Early Adolescence, 9(3), 211-226.
• School Personnel's Perceptions of Effective Programs for Working with Mobile Students and Families. By T.A. Fisher, L. Matthews, M.E. Stafford, N. Kathryn & K. Durante. (2002). Elementary School Journal, 102(4), 317-33.
• School Transition as a stressful life event and the role of social competence and social support as protective factors during the transition to junior high school. By C.C. Macintosh. (2000). Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities & Social Sciences, 61(1-A), 84.
• School Transition from elementary to secondary school: changes in psychological adjustment. By A. Lohaus, C. Ev Elben, J. Ball, J. Klein-Hessling. (2004). Educational Psychology, 24(2), 161-173.
• Student Perceptions of the Transition from Elementary School to High School. By P. Akos. (2002). Professional School Counseling, 5(5), 339-345.
• Students on the Move: Residential and Educational Mobility in America's Schools. By C.B. Swanson & B. Schneider. (1999). Sociology of Education, 72(1), 54-67.
• Supporting the development of emotional intelligence competencies to ease the transition from primary to high school. By P. Qualter, H. E. Whiteley, J. M. Hutchinson, D. J. Pope. (2007). Educational Psychology in Practice, 23(1), 79-95.
• Theories in practice: School-to-work transitions-for-youth with mild disabilities. By L.T. Eisenman. (2003). Exceptionality, 11(2), 89-102.
• The role of peer counseling and support in helping to reduce anxieties around transition from primary to secondary school. By P. Slater, M. McKeown. (2004). Counseling and Psychotherapy Research, 4(1), 72-79.
• Transition Effects of School Grade-Level Organization on Student Achievement. By Alspaugh, J.W., & Harting, R.D., 1995. In The Journal of Research and Development in Education, 28(3), 145-9.
• The transition from elementary to high school: The pivotal role of mother and child characteristics in explaining trajectories of academic functioning. S. Duchesne, S. Larose, F. Guay, F. Vitaro, R. Tremblay. (2005). International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29(5), 409-417.
• Transition from school to adult life: Empowering youth through community ownership and accountability. By C. M. Lehman, H. B. Clark, M. Bullis, J. Rinkin, L. A. Castellanos. (2004). Journal of Child and Family Studies, 11(1), 127-141.
• Transition groups for preparing students for middle school. By P. Akos, M. Martin. (2003). The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 28(2), 139-154.
• Transition Into and Out of Middle School in Irvin, J.L. (ed). What Current Research Says to Middle Level Practitioner. By Mizelle, N.B. & Mullins, E., 1997. Columbus, OH: National Middle School Association, 303-313.
• Transition options for youth with disabilities: An overview of the programs and policies that affect the transition from school. By D.C. Wittenburg, T. Golden, M. Fishman. (2002). Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 17(3), 195-206.
• Transition Practices for Handicapped Young Children. What the Experts Say.By Huntinger, P.L., 1981. In Journal of the Division for Early Education, 2, 8-14.
• Urban Adolescents' Transition to Junior High School and Protective Family Transactions. By E. Seidman, L.E. Lambert, A. LaRue, J.L. Aber. (2003). The Journal of Early Adolescence, 2(23), 166-193.

We hope these resources met your needs. If not, feel free to contact us for further assistance.For additional resources related to this topic, use our search page to find people, organizations, websites and documents.  You may also go to our technical assistance page for more specific technical assistance requests.

If you haven't done so, you may want to contact our sister center, the Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

If our website has been helpful, we are pleased and encourage you to use our site or contact our Center in the future.  At the same time, you can do your own technical assistance with "The fine Art of Fishing" which we have developed as an aid for do-it-yourself technical assistance.