Winter 2008 - Vol. 3 No. 3 - National Association of Extension 4-H ...

to leverage the resources of the county office to provide on-going programs including nutritionclasses for students and workshops for families, a 4-H after-school program and Family “FunNights.”ResultsThe collaboration between West Virginia University Extension and the West Virginia Board ofEducation benefited both the students at Grandview Elementary as well as the state schoolsystem.Benefits to the students at Grandview Elementary1. Fewer students were referred to the principal’s office for disciplinary reasons.Baseline data, collected in the 2000/01 school year, showed that there were 250 disciplinereferrals to the office. Over the four years of implementation, disciplinary referrals steadilydecreased to 105 referrals. This is an overall decrease of 58%. Based on 180 school days peryear, the average number of referrals per day dropped from 1.38 to 0.583.Table 1Total Office ReferralsGrandview Elementary - Total Office Referrals2004/051052003/04792002/03952001/021852000/012500 50 100 150 200 2502. The number of primary behavior incidents decreased dramatically.In 2000/01, there were 107 reported incidents of fighting, but in 2004/05, there were only 17.This is an improvement of 82.2% (n=90).