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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
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21st Century Community Learning Centers: //www.cde.state.co.us/21stcclc
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CDE District to District Student Transfers and Transitions http://www.cde.state.co.us/dropoutprevention/transitions-overview
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CDE Education-Related Legislative Action https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdedepcom
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CDE Migrant Education Program http://www.cde.state.co.us/migrant
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Colorado Concurrent Enrollment Program http://www.cde.state.co.us/postsecondary/concurrentenrollment
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Colorado General Assembly House Education Committee http://leg.colorado.gov/committees/education/2019-regular-session-0
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Colorado State Library Services http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib
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CTE Career and Technical Education for Colorado: http://coloradostateplan.com
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Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) https://www.cde.state.co.us/mtss/pbis
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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
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