School Connectedness Plan and Peer Responses

Assignment #5: School Connectedness Plan and Peer Responses
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Assignment #5 is the School Connectedness Plan and discussion posts. School connectedness strategies might include some options noted in class and one of the six strategies listed in this short summary:

http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/protective/pdf/connectedness_administrators.pdf

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GED 647 Class Discussion Board Prompt #1 (Assignment #5=50 points)

For this Thread of Discussion, I want you to review one article and one PowerPoint file on school connectedness:

1) the attached Power Point slides regarding – School Connectedness

SchoolConnectednessActionplanGED647.pptPreview the documentView in a new window

2) the CDC resource on School Connectedness Strategies (see link below).

SchoolConnectednessStudy CDC GED647.pdfPreview the documentView in a new window

Then draft a brief School Connectedness Action Plan using the linked School Action Plan Form (Word.doc file in link below).

GED 647 SchoolConnectednessActionPlanForm.docPreview the documentView in a new window

Strategies to include in your plan might include things discussed in class, such as: Service Learning; Link Crew; Peer Helping Classes to do Peer Conflict Mediation; YouthBuilds; Invisible Mentoring, or other youth asset development strategies that can be found at the Search Institute website http://www.search-institute.org/ (Links to an external site.)

POST The School Connectedness Plan and 2-3 paragraphs as outlined below. You will be able to use all or most of this plan in your Signature Assessment.

ideas on how you will go about implementing these steps;
please share your thoughts and how you will go about evaluating your plan to increase school connectedness, in particular for marginalized youth at-risk for school failure.

 

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