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    • « Blogging Guidelines | Home | In the New Year: RESOLVE TO GET INVOLVED »

    WELCOME and Please Watch this Blog Space

    By Tobi Kibel Piatek | February 7, 2008

    Welcome to the blog space for the online course, Making Connections: Strong Relationships Help Keep Kids in School.

    The Making Connections blog is the place for mentors, teachers, counselors - anyone who works with kids at risk of dropping out of school - to find timely and relevant information and resources to help you meet the needs of the kids you work with.

    The research this course is built upon makes it clear that relationships are the key to keeping kids in school. Relationships are also essential for teachers, mentors and volunteers. . We’ve designed this blog, and the course it supports, to take full advantage of the web’s ability to link ideas, information and people. We hope that stories and the ideas you find here will motivate you to build and maintain strong relationships with kids

    Communicating on this blog will make it easy for you to connect with others; to build online relationships and receive support, answers and ideas when you need them. Please use this blog to comment, question and interact with class participants, with me, and to all who contribute here.

    We need your input We hope that you will use this space to share stories of your successes with kids, descriptions of the challenges you face in your work, and the goals that you have for affecting positive change in the lives of the kids you work with.

    Please also, share your ideas, inspirations, concerns, resources, questions, frustrations, recommendations and requests for help. Your input will help us make this community strong, as we continue to develop this site.

    Visit often; there is lots of great information and material coming soon.

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