Strategies

Four components:

• Staff “mentor” assigned to students to keep education salient

• Systematic monitoring (checking in with student/family every day)

• Timely and individualized intervention (providing the supports needed)

• Enhancing home-school communication and home support for learning

Core Elements:

• Building relationships, engaging the power of providing a caring and supportive environment

• Problem Solving, providing opportunities for educational success, helping students with personal problems

• Individualized intervention, connecting students with resources (social worker, counselors, community agencies)

• Building/maintaining affiliation with school

• Persistence Plus - providing a persistent source of academic motivation, familiarity with the student and the family, and consistency of the message that education is important

• Mentor focus on alterable indicators of engagement, in other words, checking on whether students are completing whatever tasks are presented, engaging in check-in calls