Project GOAL Advisor Response Tool

Overview

Project GOAL (Graduation = Opportunities for Advancement and Leadership) is a program designed to promote school engagement to prevent school dropout and promote graduation. For information about Project GOAL, download the Dropout Prevention Intervention Implementation Guide.

This Project GOAL Advisor Response Tool was created after a 2-year implementation of Project GOAL. The purpose of the tool is to provide examples of how a Project GOAL advisor can respond to students’ behaviors that demonstrate a risk of low engagement in school and, ultimately, of dropping out. Organized within schoolwide prevention responses and intervention responses, this tool presents actual advisors' responses to academic and behavioral risk factors that educators can implement to increase students’ engagement in school, thus preventing them from dropping out. Click on the topics in each chart to see a variety of suggestions for advisors' responses. When appropriate, downloadable materials, indicated with a lightbulb , are available to provide additional support for implementing the intervention.

Research suggests that early measures are needed to prevent students from dropping out of school. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) offers several recommendations for such schoolwide prevention measures. All intervention ideas throughout the Project GOAL Advisor Response Tool follow these IES recommendations.

Effective Dropout Prevention Practices

Click the links below for 1) schoolwide prevention responses or 2) classroom prevention responses to engage students academically or behaviorally.

Schoolwide Prevention Responses

Classroom Prevention Responses

Project Goal Advisor Response Tool Organizer

The chart below provides an advanced organizer for the response tool. The guide addresses two main engagement categories: behavior and academic engagement. Within the student engagement category of behavior, we provide possible responses to address several different engagement indicators: attendance, infractions, disengagement, and conflicts. To address the student engagement category of academic issues, we provide responses for intervention regarding low achievement.