Building Bridges
Overview
Focus
Specific Skills
- Expected behaviors
- Emotional awareness
Program Length
Unspecified
Program Description
The Building Bridges program was designed to identify and assist students transitioning from middle school to high school who are at-risk for dropping out. The long-term goal of the project is to improve high school graduation rates and decrease dropout rates for academically capable at-risk students. The immediate goal is to help incoming freshmen succeed in their first year of high school by increasing student engagement, motivation, and achievement. Interventions include individual counseling, group counseling, tutoring, and parent outreach. The program provides practical experiences for counselors in training as well as serving high school students. The Building Bridges model includes five components: fostering caring relationships, identifying and enhancing personal strengths, developing purposes for school, monitoring progress, and connecting with home and the classroom. At the time of the review, this program had been inactive.
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Unspecified
Demographics & Delivery
Intended Population
- Intervention
Grade
- Middle School
- High School
Intended Group Size
- Individual
ELL/DLL
- Unspecified
Multisensory Applications
- Unspecified
Computer-Based Delivery
- None
Scripted
- None
Program Specifics
Comprehensive or Skill Specific
- Comprehensive
Placement Tests
- Unspecified
Accelerated Learning
- Unspecified
Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery
- Unspecified
Error Correction Built In
- Unspecified
Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher
- Unspecified
Research & Evaluation
Research Summary
A phenomenological study examined the meanings that students construct about academics and motivation while participating in this program, however effectiveness of the program was not examined. No studies were found examining the effectiveness of the program.
Study Citations
Scheel, M. J., Madabhushi, S., & Backhaus, A. (2009). The Academic Motivation of At-Risk Students in a Counseling Prevention Program. The Counseling Psychologist, 37(8), 1147–1178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000009338495
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
- Insufficient evidence