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Check & Connect (Drop-out Prevention)

Christenson, S., & Carroll, E. B. (1999). Strengthening the family-school partnership through Check and Connect. In E. Frydenberg (Ed.), Learning to cope: Developing as a person in complex societies (pp. 248-273). London: Oxford University Press.

Christenson, S. L., & Havsy, L. H. (2004). Family-school-peer relationships: Significance for social-emotional and academic learning. In J. E. Zins, R. P. Weissberg, M. C. Wang, & H. J. Walberg (Eds.), Building academic success on social and emotional learning: What does the research say? (pp. 59-75) New York: Teachers College Press.

Christenson, S. L., Sinclair, M. F., Lehr, C. A., & Hurley, C. M. (2000). Promoting successful school completion. In D. Minke & G. Bear (Eds.), Preventing school problems—Promoting school success: Strategies and programs that work. Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.

Filter, K. J., McKenna, M. K., Benedict, E. A., Horner, R. H., Todd, A. W., & Watson, J. (2007).  Check in/ Check out: A Post-Hoc Evaluation of an Efficient, Secondary-Level Targeted Intervention for Reducing Problem Behaviors in Schools. Education and Treatment of Children, 30, 69-84

Reschly, A., & Christenson, S. L. (2006). School completion. In G. G. Bear & K. M. Minke (Eds.), Children’s needs III: Development, prevention, and intervention (pp. 103-112). Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.

Sinclair, M., Hurley, C., Christenson, S., Thurlow, M., & Evelo, D. (2002). Connections that keep kids coming to school. In R. Algozzine & P. Kay (Eds.), Preventing problem behaviors: A handbook of successful prevention strategies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Todd, A., Kauffman, A., Meyer, G., & Horner, R.H. (in press). The effects of a targeted intervention to reduce problem behaviors: Elementary school implementation of check-in-check-out. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions