Resources and Materials

Best Practice Guide for Dropout Prevention Resources and Materials

CDE Resources - Programs and Policies: these resources can be found on the CDE website and include information on internal CDE programs

• 21^st Century Community Learning Centers: //www.cde.state.co.us/21stcclc

• CDE District to District Student Transfers and Transitions http://www.cde.state.co.us/dropoutprevention/transitions-overview

• CDE Education-Related Legislative Action  https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdedepcom

• CDE Migrant Education Program http://www.cde.state.co.us/migrant

• Colorado Bullying Prevention and Education

• Colorado Concurrent Enrollment Program http://www.cde.state.co.us/postsecondary/concurrentenrollment

• Colorado General Assembly House Education Committee http://leg.colorado.gov/committees/education/2019-regular-session-0

• Colorado State Library Services http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib

• CTE Career and Technical Education for Colorado: http://coloradostateplan.com

• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) https://www.cde.state.co.us/mtss/pbis

• State Advisory Council for Parent Involvement in Education http://www.cde.state.co.us/sacpie

CDE Resources - Toolkits and Guides: these resources can be found on the CDE website and include CDE produced tools

• CDE Alternatives to Zero Tolerance: Best Practice Summary http://www.cde.state.co.us/dropoutprevention/bestpracticesalternativestozerotolerance
• CDE Data Dashboard http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdereval/gradratecurrent
• CDE Data Pipeline http://www.cde.state.co.us/datapipeline
• CDE Guide for College Transition Specialists http://www.cde.state.co.us/dropoutprevention/bpgschoolcounselorsandcollegetransitionspecialists
• CDE Guide for Workforce Transition Specialists http://www.cde.state.co.us/dropoutprevention/bpgworkforcetransitionspecialistsandemploymentcounselors
• CDE Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Family, School, and Community Partnering Implementation Guide: Supporting Every Student’s Learning http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/mtssfscp_implementationguide
• CDE Transition Planning Toolkit for Special Needs Students http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/transition_tk
• Colorado School Resource Guide: Positive School Climate, Bullying and Harassment Prevention and Education School Resource Guide https://cdpsdocs.state.co.us/safeschools/CSSRC%20Documents/CSSRC-Bullying-SchoolResourceGuide.pdf
• Colorado School Safety Resource Center Resources for Positive School Climates http://cdpsdocs.state.co.us/safeschools/CSSRC%20Documents/CSSRC%20Resources%20for%20Climate%20at%20a%20glance.pdf
• ICAP: Individual Career and Academic Plan Toolkit http://www.cde.state.co.us/postsecondary/icap

Youth Outreach Programs and Services: these resources include information on organizations that provide direct educational, employment, and social support for youth

• Check and Connect Mentors http://checkandconnect.umn.edu
• City Year   https://www.cityyear.org
• Communities In Schools  https://www.communitiesinschools.org
• College in Colorado: https://secure.collegeincolorado.org/Home/_default.aspx
• Colorado Youth for a Change  http://youthforachange.org
• Denver Opportunity Youth Initiative https://denverchamber.org/about-us/affiliates-doyi/
• Diploma’s Now http://diplomasnow.org
• Drop In Colorado http://www.dropincolorado.com/Resources.html
• Future’s Academy, Colorado Youth for a Change http://youthforachange.org/futures-academy/
• Get Schooled https://getschooled.com/dashboard
• Jobzology http://www.jobzology.com/education/
• My Next Move https://www.mynextmove.org
• National Mentoring Resource Center https://nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org
• Pairin www.pairin.com
• RAMP: The Ready to Achieve Mentoring Program http://www.abilityconnectioncolorado.org/programs/employment/ready-achieve-mentoring-program/
• Random Acts of Kindness https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/for-educators
• Scholar Centric http://www.scholarcentric.com
• Virtual Job Shadow https://www.virtualjobshadow.com

Research and Advocacy Organizations: these resources include information on organizations that conduct education and youth-related research, and collect and provide youth-related information and data

• Achieve https://www.achieve.org
• Afterschool Alliance: http://www.afterschoolalliance.org
• Alliance for Excellent Education: https://www.all4ed.org
• American Youth Policy Forum: http://www.aypf.org/about/
• America’s Promise Alliance: http://www.americaspromise.org/dropout-prevention-campaign
• Attendance Works: http://www.attendanceworks.org
• Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University http://web.jhu.edu/CSOS/about.html
• Child Trends https://www.childtrends.org
• Colorado Afterschool Partnership http://coloradoafterschoolpartnership.org
• Colorado Children’s Campaign: https://www.coloradokids.org
• Competency Works: https://www.competencyworks.org
• CTE (Career Technical Education): https://careertech.org
• Data Quality Campaign https://dataqualitycampaign.org
• Edutopia https://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/dropout-prevention
• Getting Smart Innovations in Learning http://www.gettingsmart.com
• GradNation: http://gradnation.americaspromise.org
• iNACOL https://www.inacol.org
• Jobs For the Future https://www.jff.org/what-we-do/impact-stories/talent-for-the-future/
• Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center: www.every1graduates.org
• Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk: https://www.meadowscenter.org/institutes/dropout-prevention-institute
• National Center for Education Statistics: https://nces.ed.gov
• National Center of Safe Supportive Learning Environments https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/safe-and-healthy-students/school-climate
• National Council for Community and Education Partnerships http://www.edpartnerships.org
• National Governors Association Education Division: https://www.nga.org/cms/center/education
• National League of Cities Reengagement Network https://www.nlc.org/reengagement
• National School Climate Center  https://www.schoolclimate.org
• Regional Educational Laboratories (REL) https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/about/
• Say Yes to Education http://www.sayyestoeducation.org/
• Southern Dropout Prevention Alliance: http://southerndpa.org
• U.S. Dept. of Ed. High School Graduation Initiative: https://www2.ed.gov/programs/dropout/index.html
• Wallace Foundation http://www.wallacefoundation.org/pages/default.aspx
• What Works Clearinghouse https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/FWW

Professional Development and Training: these resources include organizations that offer research and education to youth-serving professionals

• American School Counselor Association  https://www.schoolcounselor.org
• Colorado School Counselor Association (CSCA) http://www.coloradoschoolcounselor.org
• Colorado Reengagement Network  http://youthforachange.org/services/colorado-reengagement-network/overview.html
• Education Week https://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
• Graduation and Outcomes for Success for Out of School Youth Resource http://www.osymigrant.org/Module1.html
• National Afterschool Association https://naaweb.org
• National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity  https://www.napequity.org
• National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement http://www.nafsce.org
• National Association of School Psychologists http://www.nasponline.org
• National Center for School Engagement: http://schoolengagement.org
• National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth): www.ncwd-youth.info/
• National Dropout Prevention Center http://dropoutprevention.org
• National Education Association: http://www.nea.org/home/DropoutPrevention.html
• National Technical Assistance Center on Transition https://www.transitionta.org

Toolkits: these resources include education and youth-related tools external to CDE  

• Decisions in Motion, Iowa Dept. of Ed. Dropout Prevention Toolkit
• Engaging Families and Communities Toolkit, You for Youth https://y4y.ed.gov/toolkits/afterschool/science/engaging-families-and-communities
• North Carolina Dropout Prevention Toolkit, Reviewing Data to Improve Graduation Outcomes
• Toolkit for Title I Parent Involvement http://www.sedl.org/connections/toolkit/toolkit-titleI-parent-inv.pdf
• Reengaging Disconnected Youth Action Tool Kit, National League of Cities http://www.nlc.org/resource/reengaging-disconnected-youth-action-kit

Resource Guides: these resources include youth and education-related guides and information external to CDE

• American Institutes for Research Early Warning Systems Development  http://www.earlywarningsystems.org
• American Institutes for Research District Guide for Creating Indicators for Early Warning Systems https://www.wested.org/resources/creating-indicators-for-early-warning-systems/
• Credit Recovery and Efficiency Based Credit Guide http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/94/23/9423.pdf
• Early Warning Systems High School Intervention Implementation Guide       https://www.air.org/resource/early-warning-systems-education
• Establishing an Early Warning Indicator System  https://greatmiddleschools.org/toolkits/dropout-prevention/early-warning-indicator-system/
• My Future, My Way! A Workbook for Middle School Students https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/sites/default/files/my-future-my-way.pdf
• Practitioners Guide to Implementing Early Warning Systems http://educationnorthwest.org/resources/practitioner-s-guide-implementing-early-warning-systems
• Resource Guide for Schools to Help Students Affected by Trauma http://www.traumainformedcareproject.org/resources/bibliography%20of%20resources%20for%20schools%20to%20be%20trauma%20informed.PDF
• U.S. Department of Education School Climate Measurement Surveys https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/edscls