The built environment can inadvertently create obstacles for human cognition, emotion, and behavior when ill-designed, neglected, or poorly retrofitted. Deteriorating education facilities exemplify the lack of awareness in regard to the significant relationship between people and their environments. However, simply updating a school does not always accommodate occupant needs, especially for students who are sensitive to external stimuli. Students in behavioral schools who suffer from emotional behavioral disorder (EBD) often display adverse neurological affects from negative life experiences. Common disorders comorbid with EBD, as well as EBD itself, interferes with their ability to control and manage behavior. By identifying common challenges, the proposed behavioral school in Northampton, Massachusetts aims to support the building’s program and occupants to achieve specific goals, i.e. academic standards, and behavioral self-management. Environmental-behavior and neuropsychology principles are implemented in overarching themes including biophilic design, behavior defined space, safety, and transitions. Strategic design elements aim to assist students relearning behavior by clearly defining which behaviors are acceptable in specific spaces within the school and by addressing common cognitions and emotions often associated with the negative behavior. These implementations range from broad environmental-behavioral-neurology principles that manifest themselves in the built environment to address place, personalization, territory, and wayfinding, down to smaller details, including strategically framed exterior views. Unlike traditional day schools, this demographic is tasked with the extremely difficult goal to restructure their consciousness from the inside out, in addition to the baseline academic requirements. As the largest physical teaching tool, the school itself assists the sensitive students and hardworking staff in their transitional journey.

Ce projet de recherche a pour but d’examiner dans quelle mesure l’implication des parents dans le cheminement scolaire de leur enfant est susceptible de modérer la relation entre le désengagement scolaire de l’élève et la détérioration de son rendement scolaire au début du secondaire. L’échantillon est composé de 380 élèves de première et troisième secondaire de la région de Montréal. Lors de cette étude longitudinale, le rendement scolaire a été évalué en première et troisième secondaire. Le niveau de désengagement comportemental et les comportements de soutien parental reliés aux activités scolaires ont été évalués en première secondaire. Les résultats démontrent que les comportements de soutien parental reliés aux activités scolaires constituent un facteur protecteur qui modère la relation entre le désengagement comportemental et le rendement scolaire ultérieur, mais seulement chez les élèves qui avaient initialement un rendement scolaire élevé en secondaire 1. Les résultats obtenus ne permettent toutefois pas de rendre compte du caractère protecteur de l’implication parentale chez les élèves à risque qui présentent un plus faible rendement scolaire en secondaire 1. / The goal of this study was to examine to what extent parental involvement in the schooling of their child moderates the association between student’s school disengagement and subsequent decline in academic achievement during the first years of high school. The sample was composed of 380 students in grades 7 and 9 in the Montreal area. In this longitudinal study, academic achievement was evaluated in grades 7 and 9. Behavioral disengagement and parental support for academic activities were evaluated in grade 7. Results show that parental support related to academic activities moderate the association between behavioral disengagement and later school performance, but only among students who initially had high academic achievement in grade 7. However, the results do not confirm the protective role of parental involvement among students who had lower academic achievement in grade 7.

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