PROGRAMS

Dropout Assessment & Prevention System
Dropout Assessment and Prevention System (DAPS) is a comprehensive, module-based solution that identifies students in your program who are at risk of dropping out, develops a personalized intervention plan, and provides solutions that ensure academic and personal success. Each module can be purchased separately or all three can be purchased at once to provide an entire prevention program that drastically reduces your dropout rate.

Assessment
The Assessment module includes both Student and Administrator Questionnaires that are tabulated to identify the specific individual students who are dropout risks. At the end of this module, the school receives a comprehensive report highlighting the students who are most at risk.

Intervention
The Intervention module develops a personalized intervention plan for each at-risk student that is based on the data collected in the Assessment module. These factors cover the following areas: academics, economics, health, behavioral assistance, social skills training, extracurricular activities, career counseling, and training. The school, family, and community resources will be evaluated in terms of the needs of the at-risk population. The plan will be developed, implemented, and evaluated to ensure that these students remain in school.

Pace Learning Lab
Professionals from Pace Learning work with the schools to develop a "suite of solutions" that address the specific needs of the at-risk students. Students are appropriately trained with personalized educational strategies to remediate their deficiencies. At-risk students learn in an accelerated format designed especially for non- or low-performing students. These are evidence-based components that can be seamlessly integrated into school environments so that administrators, teachers, students, and families will use them with consistency to address the factors that influence a student's choice to stay in school.

Dropout Assessment and Prevention System (DAPS) gives us the gap information between academic levels and social behavioral patterns that impact our at-risk students. With this information, we can appropriately aid our students as they transition from middle school to high school. In a nutshell, with DAPS, we have more information with which to make better decisions for our students.
Rhonda Cotton
Baldwin County Schools,
Southwest AL