Why School-Connect?

Think back to your own teen years and the impactful decisions you had to make. Academic engagement or disengagement? Live for the moment or the long-term? Choose hopefulness or hopelessness? Keep to yourself or reach out for support?

What if, instead of learning everything the hard way, the teen years came with an Owner's Manual to Life - plus a guide and classmates to walk with you through the journey? That's the skill-building goal behind School-Connect.

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Four statistics on how school-connectedness is a protective factor
Sources: Agile Analytics 2016; 2019; S-C Student Surveys

Teens need our help now more than ever.

We all know the challenges teens face – increased academic rigor, puberty, peer pressure, and decisions about their future – but today’s teens are facing a new world of challenges.

Students are more isolated than ever before and the result has been increasing reports of feeling more hopeless, inadequate, and lonely, all of which are risk factors for negative behavior.

At School-Connect, we know how to counter these risk factors with protective factors – the proven elements that foster resilience and well-being. Among these, school-connectedness is a leading protective factor—and the inspiration for our name.

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The power of protective factors is proven.

We recognize your commitment to student growth and the importance of students developing the ability to overcome challenges. That's why our proactive approach counters risk factors with lesson topics, skill-building, and connection to others that will set students up for success - both in school and in life.

But the potential of protective factors isn't just something we know; it's something we have seen throughout the 20+ year history of School-Connect. We have witnessed the life-changing impacts of our lessons and skills on students' present and future success. This is our hope for your students and the reason we feature our School-Connect alumni, who years ago sat in classrooms learning from our curriculum and have now returned to share how impactful these skills have been throughout their lives.

A graphic describing School-Connect's multi-layered approach to protective factors
4.1 - A graphic describing how School-Connect's lesson topics and modules parallel protective factors