a seventh grader, slams into the room and throws her purse on the table, pulling out her new perfume and asking people to smell it, yanking out her hairspray and her lipstick, and all the while talking over anything that anyone is saying in the room, telling about her day and how she feels about her last class. In sixth grade, she was failing all of her classes and telling her father her teachers were losing her homework assignments. At this point, an early intervention support system-an academic case manager-intervened. He began by speaking with her father and sending him weekly progress reports. The case manager advocated with teachers to allow Mary to complete missing assignments and helped her with them. He built a mentoring relationship with her and her family. Although Mary still has trouble in math class, currently she is passing all her other classes. Her goal is to make Honor Roll.

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