MCPER’s Preventing School Dropout With Secondary Students project recently trained reading intervention specialists and dropout prevention monitors to work in each of the Pflugerville Independent School District high schools. The reading intervention training focused on the MCPER-designed program Reading Instruction for Adolescents, which incorporates explicit, individualized training in the effective components of empirically based reading instruction, with special emphasis on improving access to content area expository text. The three dropout prevention monitors were provided training in a MCPER-designed dropout prevention program. The program, modeled after the University of Minnesota’s Check and Connect program, allows monitors to work with students daily to provide individualized and timely support to increase motivation and engagement.
