Every Child Every Day

Goal/Purpose: Social Distancing has created social isolation for some of our families/students. Students are more at risk than ever, and a school’s ability to “keep eyes” on students is greatly diminished. In order to maintain community, social contact, and to ensure that we can do all we can to maintain our students safety and support families by making community connections when they are struggling, we believe that contact should be made with every student, every day.

Concept Description: Utilizing the fundamental, underlying concepts of the researched based program “Check and Connect” from the University of Minnesota, we propose that school personnel be set up to reach out to families/students in partnership, to:

• Maintain the positive relationships necessary to student social/emotional/behavioral success and commitment to learning;

• Engage students and families in learning in the context of the pandemic, stay at home orders and social distancing and the context within which the family is currently living;

• Connect families/students to community resources when required to ensure families have basic needs met.