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| 8:00am | Registration, Breakfast, Welcome, and Acknowledgements | |||
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| 9:00am Keynote |
Day 1 Keynote: Celebrating Check & Connect: Research & Practice Highlights Across 25 Years Sandra L. Christenson | |||
| 10:15am Panel |
Panel of Check & Connect Implementation Sites Rebecca Phillpott, Darnell Logan, Peg Sullivan, Andrea Matheson (moderated by Sandra Christenson) | |||
| TRACKS | Stories from C&C Sites | Implementing C&C | Sustaining C&C | Research |
| 11:30am | Check & Connect in Schools Serving American Indian Students Lowana Greensky | C&C on a Shoe String: Using Volunteers and Current Staff as Mentors Kay Augustine, Erin Indrelie Swoboda, Stephen Pettinelli | Understanding the Costs Associated with Interventions to Improve High School Completion David Johnson | SEI: Systems-Level Measurement and Intervention Jim Appleton, Amy Reschly |
| 12:30pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:45pm | Florida's C&C Story: One Pillar to Support Successful Graduates Peg Sullivan, Lael Engstrom | Implementing Check & Connect from a Pacific Island Perspective: Taking a Village Approach to Addressing Dropout Daniel Samuta, Arthur Mui | Getting Started with Check & Connect at the Middle School LevelRichelle Dumas, Kathryn Szwed-Thompson | The “Connect” in C&C: Understanding Developmental Relationships Kent Pekel |
| 3:00pm | Truancy Prevention and Re-Entry of Adjudicated Youth: Check & Connect's Use on Both Sides of the Juvenile Justice System Judge Daniel Heath, Jerome Graham, Eileen Klemm | Using C&C with School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Andrea Matheson, Shelli Blazic | C&C Sustainability: Supporting & Retaining Quality Mentors Carl Sumi, Nicole Fabricant, Darcy Cabral | How to Listen to Staff, Volunteers & Clients Richard Krueger |
| 8:00am | Breakfast / Welcome | |||
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| 9:00am Keynote |
Day 2 Keynote: Ordinary Magic in Action: Promoting Resilience in Children and Youth Ann Masten |
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| TRACKS | Stories from C&C Sites | Implementing C&C | Sustaining C&C | Research |
| 10:15am | The Role of Afterschool in Academic Achievement Kimberly Boyd, Daisy Loretta Smith | Persistence Plus for the Mentor Team: The Role of Coordinator in Ensuring Fidelity of Implementation Rebecca Philpott, Brisa Rodriguez | Is Your C&C Program Making a Difference? Karen Storm, Jane Fields, Melissa Haynes | Promoting Cognitive Engagement Angie Pohl |
| 11:30am | Building & Sustaining Check & Connect: The Story of Minneapolis Public Schools Colleen Kaibel | The Essential Components of Working with Families: An American Indian Perspective Dennis Olson | C&C at the State Level: GradMinnesota and Systemic Improvement Plans (SSIP) Cammy Lehr, Eileen Klemm, Sandy Schmitz | Engaging Young Learners Through Early Family Intervention Amy Susman-Stillman, Karen Storm |
| 12:30pm | Lunch |
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| 1:45pm Plenary |
The Student Support CardTM Derek Peterson | |||