We have been meeting with our students on a daily basis for some time now. However, the high school principal has not yet been able to rework our midday schedule to allow for the teacher and mentor to meet for more than 5 minutes each week. It is difficult to get teachers and students together if there isn't time during the day planned for it. The teachers have been unable to complete weekly check-in sheets.
We had our first incentive programs for students who had missed no more than one verified day the first quarter. We had 90 students who had missed no days or had one verified absence. The junior high students went to the track and played around. It was raining on the day the high school was scheduled so they ended up in the field house. We gave away a $20.00 gift card to Walmart and a $10.00 gift card to Walmart. We gave away free passes to the ball games to multiple students.
The next incentive will be at the end of first semester. We will reward attendance. We are also planning on rewarding all of those students who did not have a discipline referral first semester.
The majority of our mentor students had a positive increase in grades. We have one student who isn't making a positive improvement but he is also working with counselor. We have not had a drop-out as of this date on December 1. I hope I haven't jinxed that by mentioning it. The staff is working very hard to prevent any student from feeling like dropping out is the only solution. We are trying to work with social services to provide additional support to the family.
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