ENGAGE Allendale
Toolkit
Welcome to the Graduation Alliance resource page for Allendale County Schools. This page contains tools that will help communicate about your district’s ENGAGE and Dropout Recovery programs with staff and families in your community.
For information about participating or about online and student engagement strategies, please contact:
For information about data related to ENGAGE Allendale, please contact:
Farrah Lemoine
Graduation Alliance
VP, Program Development
337.258.1323
farrah.lemoine@graduationalliance.com
Christian Shiverdecker
Graduation Alliance
ENGAGE Program Manager
801.690.4642
christian.shiverdecker@graduationalliance.com
Unsure who to contact? Please reach out to Christian Shiverdecker, and he can route you to the right person.
Christina Pipkin
Graduation Alliance
Director of Program Development
832.470.9929
christina.pipkin@graduationalliance.com
For information about data related to the Dropout Recovery program, please contact:
ENGAGE Allendale is designed to stabilize and improve student attendance and academic performance. The program includes support for the district and outreach and ongoing academic coaching and life challenges support for K-12 students who are completely disengaged, chronically absent, or academically at-risk.
Here’s how it works:
The district refers eligible students to ENGAGE.
ENGAGE Outreach Counselors connect with referrals and offer ongoing support.
High school students who are unwilling or unable to return to campus-based offerings can enroll in the Dropout Recovery program.
Participants complete a risk assessment, are assigned an ongoing support level, and begin working with a personal mentor.
The mentor provides students with ongoing academic and life-challenges support.
Graduation Alliance returns data to the district.
Dropout Recovery provides a comprehensive, online program with robust supports to Allendale youth who left or are at risk of leaving high school without a diploma. Students engage in online learning so they can succeed in earning an accredited diploma from Allendale County Schools.
Here’s how it works:
The district refers at-risk and disengaged students.
Graduation Alliance uses a multi-modal strategy to reach out to referrals and ENGAGE referrals who said they couldn’t or wouldn’t return to in-person school.
Graduation Alliance develops a learning plan for each student.
Students complete online courses facilitated by state-licensed teachers.
Students receive academic and life challenges support from Academic Coaches and Local Advocates.
Graduation Alliance returns data to the district.
Parent/Community Resources
Staff Resources
Whitepapers
Staff Resources
Data shows statistically significant gains in attendance, grades, and credits earned when comparing students referred to ENGAGE programs who participated to those who did not.
Based on a 2021 study by Mission Measurement, Graduation Alliance's Dropout Recovery programs have significantly outperformed the national benchmark for dropout recovery programs established by the Impact Genome Project on both efficacy and cost per outcome, providing 27% more outcomes for 33% less cost.
Allendale County Schools students have access to two programs through Graduation Alliance: ENGAGE and Dropout Recovery. Check out the chart below for a high-level overview of how these programs serve your students. Continue reading for program details and resources.
Dashboard training and ongoing program progress reviews. Your Program Manager will reach out to schedule these reviews with the primary point of contact for the program.
Staff awareness. You can use any combination of communication tools from this site, including the Staff Resources, to help get the word out about the program. Your Program Manager is also available to facilitate program overviews for staff.
District-to-parent communication strategy. Prior to uploading student referral lists to our secure file transfer site, review and implement the Parent/Community Resources provided below. It is a best practice to share these materials with families in advance of our outreach to them.
LEA contact list. Click here to complete the LEA contact list.
Student referrals. Click here for the instructions and Click here for the template.
