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Celebrating Check & Connect Research and Practice Highlights
Across 25 years
Dr. Sandra L. Christenson October 7, 2015
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Do you know these students?
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The development of Check & Connect was unique. We began right.
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Lesson Learned • The powerful effect of both researcher
and practitioner input in the planning year – science and practice – for the design of Check & Connect cannot be ignored.
• Comprised of 4 components – checking, connecting, mentor (also referred to as a monitor, advocate, coach), and parent engagement
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The impact of Check & Connect was established in studies that stressed fidelity of implementation and used random assignment.
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Lesson Learned • Research design led to significant interest
in use of Check & Connect both by other researchers and practitioners
• Effectiveness research where the intervention was adapted to specific school based contexts occurred
• Converging evidence – keeping students in schools
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The clearly delineated components and elements of Check & Connect paved the way for our describing it as a model to engage students.
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Lesson Learned • Impact on different referral concerns and could
be adapted to a specific school context • We began to think of Check & Connect as a
service delivery mechanism or model rather than a program
• Essential elements explained why and how to engage students
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Student engagement is a multidimensional construct. We want students to be engaged academically, behaviorally, cognitively, and affectively.
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Subtype Observable indicators Academic Time on task, academic engaged 1me, accrual of credits
Behavioral A9endance, fewer suspensions, classroom par1cipa1on
Subtype Internal indicators Cogni1ve Perceived relevance of schoolwork, self-‐regula1on toward
goals, personal expecta1ons for success
Affec1ve Iden1fica1on with school, belonging, perceived connec1on at school with teachers and peers
Subtypes of Engagement
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Lesson Learned • Attend to students’ intellectual and emotional
feelings about school and about their ability to succeed
• SEI - a reliable and valid way to measure students’ cognitive and affective engagement
• Focus on motivation and engagement variables to enhance academic performance.
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The demand for professional staff development locally, nationally, and internationally was initiated by the 2006 WWC review of dropout prevention programs.
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Lesson Learned • Educators are interested in scientifically based
practice and training is essential for fidelity of implementation.
• A second manual in 2008. • Check & Connect is not a
manualized, highly prescriptive or scripted intervention: – mentors make decisions – role of relationships
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Interventions must be dynamic, meeting the needs of students across time.
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Lesson Learned • The role of the coordinator in implementing
Check & Connect is essential. – Coordinators must continually support mentors
by providing ongoing training – Staying abreast of new research
based content that is associated with student engagement
– Mentor is the conduit for training to occur
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Recent longitudinal studies have helped us understand for whom and under what conditions Check & Connect is most effective.
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Lesson Learned • Our results consistently are converging. • Evidence that Check & Connect improves
school attendance and retention rates • Relationships, problem solving,
and persistent support keep disengaged learners in school
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There are many exciting examples of sustainability of Check & Connect locally, nationally, and internationally.
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Lesson Learned • Check & Connect is a targeted intervention
designed to be used with effective universal practices. We now have several examples and research data to conclude that this statement is well supported.
• School districts and researchers are using our theory of student engagement as well as implementing the Check & Connect student engagement model – both are signs of sustainability.
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Final thoughts • We cannot have the same impact for
disengaged, marginalized students without universal and supplemental support interventions.
• This is not a situation of either/or, but both /and.
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Engaging the disengaged
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Thank you for your efforts.