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Partnering with AmeriCorps Promise Fellows at Minneapolis Public Schools
Partnering with AmeriCorps Promise Fellows at Minneapolis Public Schools In school year 2021-22, chronic absenteeism increased sharply to a rate of 51% in Minneapolis Public Schools owing to a number of factors during the pandemic. Since its height in the 2021-2022...
Integrating a Focus on Attendance into Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports in Columbus City Schools
Integrating a Focus on Attendance into Positive Behavior Interventions & Supportsin Columbus City Schools In the 2021-2022 school year, Columbus City Schools (CCS) served nearly 47,000 pre-K-12 students. Of these students, nearly 30,000 were chronically absent,...
Adopting a Community Schools Model in Albuquerque Public Schools
Adopting a Community Schools Model in Albuquerque Public Schools Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) has developed a robust strategy to combat chronic absenteeism since the inception of the 2019 New Mexico Attendance for Success Act, which tasks districts and schools...
Partnering with Success Mentors in Greater Johnstown Public Schools
Partnering with Success Mentors inGreater Johnstown Public Schools Johnstown, a small city within rural surroundings, had an average chronic absenteeism rate of 36.4% for secondary students and 28.5% for elementary pupils. More concerning are the rates for subgroups,...
Presentation: Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge—What Do We Know?
Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge—What Do We Know? (Presentation) The following resource was adapted from a presentation delivered by Hedy Chang, Executive Director of Attendance Works, and Dr. Robert Balfanz, Director of the Johns Hopkins University Everyone...
Intergenerational Volunteering
Intergenerational Volunteering The following article appears courtesy of Carol Ayars, CVA, AmeriCorps Seniors Programs Manager with Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging in Richmond, Virginia. One of my earliest childhood memories is helping my Granny...
Program Spotlight: Step Up Tutoring
Program Spotlight: Step Up Tutoring Step Up Tutoring is a nonprofit that provides high-impact tutoring to help close the opportunity gap. Step Up Tutoring and Ernst and Young piloted a program for a day of service for their employees where they created an online...
Program Spotlight: Reading Partners
Program Spotlight: Reading Partners Reading Partners Connects is our virtual tutoring program where volunteers provide 1:1 literacy lessons to Kindergarten-4th grade students via our online tutoring platform using our evidence-based curriculum. Content integrates our...
Program Spotlight: CricketTogether
Program Spotlight: CricketTogether CricketTogether is the mission-based, mentoring-for-children initiative of Cricket Media, Inc. TryEngineering Together (co-founded by Cricket Media and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) partnered with Schneider...
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Post-Secondary Transition Coaches
Support post-secondary exposure, college search and fit/match, college application creation, financial aid applications, and navigation of post-secondary transitions.
Academic Tutors
A form of teaching, one-on-one or in a small group, towards a specific goal. High-impact tutoring leads to months of additional learning gains for students by supplementing (but not replacing) students’ classroom experiences. High-impact tutoring responds to individual needs and complements students’ existing curriculum.
High-Quality Mentors
With training and support, facilitate a variety of youth development and enrichment experiences, help youth explore and affirm their identity, provide navigational support around school-to-work transitions, and buffer against adversity in-school, out of school, and over the summer.
Student Success Coaches
Form diverse teams in systemically under-resourced schools to partner with teachers to provide integrated, relationship-driven social, emotional, academic, and youth development supports to enhance student outcomes and create positive learning environments at the classroom and whole school level during and after the school day.
Wraparound/Integrated Student Support Coordinators
Enable schools to build strong connections and systems with community health, mental health, and social service providers. Coordinators put school climate plans and multi-tiered systems of support into action.
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