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