Dropout Elementary Google System 
Hapara
JANUARY 26, 2023
This included “higher student academic engagement, attendance, grades, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates.” You can share a Google Form with questions at the beginning of the school year or semester. Ask peers to interview each other and add responses to a shared Google Doc or Sheet.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Redland Elementary.
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Edsurge
JULY 29, 2020
In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Members made about 600 calls to parents and students to check in on well-being, ask about obstacles to learning and provide technical support on tools like Google Classrooms and Zoom.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2022
Her classes focus on computer systems networking; students earn certificates for jobs in fields like IT while also providing tech support to the high school. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. This story also appeared in Billy Penn.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
APRIL 25, 2021
You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. And, this is how we create better systems: by designing those systems for individuals rather than trying to force individuals to fit into the systems.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 8, 2018
District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Yet some teachers also said that the intimacy of the house system — in which freshmen often ended up in three or more classes with the same students — caused friction.
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