Teaching · Related Services

Find out whether a student feels they belong.

Eight statements the student answers, plus trusted adults, activities and attendance. The organizer scores each part, names the warning signs and suggests supports that build connection.

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The connectedness record

One record per student and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Scores for belonging, adults, peers and engagement, warning signs including chronic absence, and specific supports for the low parts.
Who it is for
School psychologists, counselors, social workers and support teams working with a student who seems disconnected.
Format
Browser record completed with the student. Saved records; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
one student, and the threads that hold
Drawn for this page. Connection to school is a few relationships and reasons to come; the dashed threads are the ones to strengthen.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s code and the date.
  2. Read each statement with the student and let them choose.
  3. Ask which adults at school they could go to, and count them.
  4. Enter activities and attendance so far.
  5. Try the supports, then copy the record to a new date in six to eight weeks.

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Reading the record

Why connectedness

The CDC describes school connectedness as students’ belief that adults and peers at school care about their learning and about them as individuals. Students who feel connected are more likely to attend, and less likely to report health risk behaviors.

Chronic absence

Missing 10% or more of school days for any reason is the common definition of chronic absence. It often travels with low connection; work on both together.

What this is not

A normed scale or a screening for mental health conditions. The statements were written for this page.

Sources

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009). School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth.
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Adolescent and School Health: school connectedness and health outcomes (Youth Risk Behavior Survey findings).
  3. U.S. Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism in the Nation’s Schools: missing 15 or more days, and the common 10% definition used by states.
  4. Allen, K., et al. (2018). What schools need to know about fostering school belonging: a meta-analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 30.

The example student is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.