Four components:

1. Mentors keep education salient for students
2. Check - Systematic monitoring
3. Connect - Timely and individualized intervention
4. Enhancing home-school communication and home support for learning

Core intervention elements:

1. Relationships - positive, based upon mutual trust and open communication
2. Problem solving:  Steps 1 - 5
   • Stop: Think about the problem
   • What are some choices?
   • Choose one
   • Do it
   • How did it work?
3. Affiliation with school and learning: facilitate involvement with school activities
4. Persistence-Plus:  persistent source of academic motivation
5. A focus on alterable indicators of disengagement:  Indicators of behavioral and academic engagement ameniable to change