🎓Check & Connect🎓
A Dropout Prevention Intervention
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.
🎓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- are withdrawn and have feelings of not belonging at school?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
🎓Need More Information?
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
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