Transition

Link Crew is more than just a one day event. This program spans an entire year at your high school. The Link Crew Leaders not only help organize and guide the freshmen through orientation day, but they also help to facilitate a smooth transition both socially and academically throughout the year. Using a series of social, academic and leader initiated interactions, the Link Crew Leaders maintain contact with their freshman groups and mentor them throughout the year. Specifically, there are three ways Link Crew lives on your campus during the year:

Academic Follow Ups
These occur in a classroom setting; Link Crew Leaders visit freshman classes to teach lessons on topics such as time management, goal setting, and peer pressure.

Social Follow Ups
These are school sponsored group activities that bring freshmen and Link Crew Leaders together for a variety of fun events such as group lunches, campus movie nights or tailgate parties in support of school sporting events.

Leader Initiated Follow Ups
These happen outside the classroom on a one-to-one basis and can be as simple as Link Crew Leaders saying “hi” to their freshmen in the hallways or calling them at home to check in and see how they are doing. More involved Leader Initiated Follow Ups include Link Leaders spending time tutoring their freshmen or doing something special for their birthdays.

This three pronged approach to freshman transition is what sets Link Crew apart from other orientation programs. A 1998 study cited by the National Association of Secondary School Principals found that 6-8 contacts in a year are necessary in order to establish a relationship that truly makes a difference. With Link Crew, freshmen experience at least 8 positive contacts with Link Leaders the first six weeks of school.

The Link Crew freshman orientation and transition program provides a structure in which these connections and relationships can be made and maintained, in turn effecting change throughout the entire campus.