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🎓Check & Connect🎓

A Dropout Prevention Intervention

🎓Check & Connect🎓A Dropout Prevention Intervention

Description 🎓 Description 🎓

Check & Connect is an intervention used with K-12 students who show warning signs of disengagement with school and who are at risk of dropping out. At the core of Check & Connect is a trusting relationship between the student and a caring, trained mentor who both advocates for and challenges the student to keep education salient. Students are referred to Check & Connect when they show warning signs of disengaging from school, such as poor attendance, behavioral issues, and/or low grades.

Check & Connect: A comprehensive student engagement intervention

🎓Who can benefit from Check & Connect? 🎓Who can benefit from Check & Connect?

Students who:


  • are frequently tardy, truant or absent?
  • are not completing assignments/are credit deficit?
  • exhibit minimal interest in school?
  • are resistant to learning?
  • have low academic self-efficacy?
  • are withdrawn and have feelings of not belonging at school?

🎓Research 🎓Research

🎓Need More Information? 🎓Need More Information?

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Elizabeth Ciavarella ~ Inclusive Practices/LRE

Please contact me for more information on training and technical assistance options to support sites considering or already implementing Check & Connect.


Email: ciave@iu29.org
Website: https://www.iu29.org/Page/204
Location: 17 Maple Avenue, Pottsville, PA, USA
Phone: 570.544.9131 x1282
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SchuylkillIntermediateUnit29
Twitter: @Schuylkill_IU29

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