SHIELD Connection
Students Honoring Individual Excellence through Learning and Determination
Four components:
- Mentors keep education salient for students
- Check - Systematic monitoring
- Connect - Timely and individualized intervention
- Enhancing home-school communication and home support for learning
Core intervention elements:
- Relationships - positive, based upon mutual trust and open communication
- Problem solving: Steps 1 - 5
- Stop: Think about the problem
- What are some choices?
- Choose one
- Do it
- How did it work?
- Affiliation with school and learning: facilitate involvement with school activities
- Persistence-Plus: persistent source of academic motivation
- A focus on alterable indicators of disengagement: Indicators of behavioral and academic engagement ameniable to change
Any questions or concerns please contact: Room 130
Celesia Lewis 480-472-4552