Check & Connect
Check & Connect: Te Hononga
Check & Connect: Te Hononga is a two-year, educational mentoring programme for students in years 9–11 at risk of disengaging from school.
Check & Connect was developed by the University of Minnesota in the late 1990s. It has a strong record of helping students to:
- improve their engagement and retention rates
- develop a positive attitude to learning
- increase their levels of problem solving
- raise their academic performance.
Check & Connect Te Hononga
Videos
Check & Connect - Introducing Check & Connect
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Introducing Check & Connect - transcript (PDF, 46 KB)
Check & Connect - Purposeful relationships
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Purposeful relationships - transcript (PDF, 47 KB)
Check & Connect - Continuity of support
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Continuity of support - transcript (PDF, 56 KB)
Check & Connect - Goal setting
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Goal setting - transcript (PDF, 46 KB)
Check & Connect - Mentor support
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Mentor support - transcript (PDF, 39 KB)
Check & Connect - Working together
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Working together - transcript (PDF, 46 KB)
Check & Connect - Working with families
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Working with families - transcript (PDF, 45 KB)
Check & Connect - And it works
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And it works – Transcript (PDF, 48 KB)
What is involved?
A school nominates students based on a number of risk indicators, including lateness to school and classes, incomplete homework, absenteeism.
Students accepted onto the programme are matched with a trained Check & Connect: Te Hononga mentor. The mentor works with the student to help them to set and achieve their educational goals over a minimum period of two years. This includes working with the student’s whānau/family and school, and other service providers who can help the student achieve their goals.
Support material
Download interactive PDFs of activity templates, forms, and checklists
The interactive PDFs below will allow you to create and complete your own electronic versions of forms and tools from the manual. Type into the fillable fields (which are coloured on screen but print as they appear in the manual), and then save the document as a record, to work on in the future, or to email to others. {Print the PDFs to hard copy records of what you’ve typed or if you would prefer to create handwritten versions.
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 1_Student risk inventory_005 (PDF, 64 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 3_Student nomination form_001 (PDF, 124 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 4_Weekly monitoring form_005 (PDF, 566 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 4_Monthly summary meetings_005 (PDF, 30 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 4_Monthly summary case notes_005 (PDF, 38 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 5_Whanau and Student consent forms_002 (PDF, 32 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 6_Mentor job description_001 (PDF, 34 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 7_Mentor letter of agreement_002 (PDF, 28 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 8_Ngā mahi o te oranga form_002 (PDF, 65 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Appendix 10_Monitoring the impact_002 (PDF, 31 KB)
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Check _ Connect_Table 10_Self-evaluating progress and fidelity_003 (PDF, 93 KB)