Webcast: The New Check & Connect Manual
Held December 3, 2008
Dr. Sandra Christenson, Principal Investigator of Check & Connect and Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota (U of M), and Donna Johnson, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute on Community Integration, U of M will discuss the new Check & Connect manual, its essential components, the research behind the work, and considerations for implementing Check & Connect in local communities.
For the past 18 years, the U of M has researched the effectiveness of Check & Connect: A comprehensive student engagement intervention, and the intervention has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse as the only dropout prevention program to have strong evidence of positive effects for staying in school. In late November 2008, Check & Connect launched a new manual designed to help school districts, after school programs, school professionals, youth workers and others implement Check & Connect in their home sites.
Check & Connect is located at the Institute on Community Integration, Minnesota's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Check & Connect has been funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs and Dakota County Community Services, Minnesota.
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