"School-Connect- Optimizing the High School Experience"
Program, Organization
Summary
School-Connect seeks to foster academic engagement, enhance social and emotional competencies, reduce risk behaviors, and facilitate supportive relationships within high school communities. Our ultimate goal is to prepare adolescents for adulthood both personally and professionally. School-Connect creates and distributes School-Connect: Optimizing the High School Experience, a program for boosting students’ social, emotional and academic skills. School-Connect authors also offer professional development in how to implement the program and create supportive learning communities in high schools and speak nationally on the importance of school connectedness to adolescents’ personal growth and engagement in learning. School-Connect is a leading provider of high school social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum. Our 80-lesson multimedia curriculum is designed to improve high school students’ social, emotional, and academic skills and strengthen relationships among students and between students and teachers.