Check & Connect is a comprehensive intervention designed to enhance student engagement at school and with learning for marginalized, disengaged students in grades K-12, through relationship building, problem solving and capacity building, and persistence. A goal of Check & Connect is to foster school completion with academic and social competence.
Check & Connect is implemented in schools and community settings throughout the United States, as well as abroad. Find Check & Connect on the web at checkandconnect.umn.edu for more information.
Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Check & Connect participants in Eastern Carver County Schools (MN) and The MAP Project in St. Paul for sharing their stories with us!