Best Practices
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Best Practices
For Reducing Absences
TIER 1:
Awareness: Create awareness of impact of absences among school team, parents, students, community, etc.
Encouragement: Acknowledge and reward students for good or improved attendance.
Early Engagement: Engage parents before third unexcused absence because students are already truant at three.
TIER 2:
Detection: Real-time data analysis detects negative absentee behaviors earlier.
Identified Barriers: Understand reasons and challenges facing students that cause excused or unexcused absences.
Personalized Interventions: Quickly provide interventions for absences customized to specific circumstance of student.
Mentor: Teacher/coach mentoring or creating buddy system, where student looks older student with strong habits.
TIER 3:
Coordination: Collaborate with 3rd party social services programs to help students and families overcome challenges and provide legal interventions as last resort.
Tracking: Constantly monitor progress after interventions are implemented and track for needed adjustments.
Follow-up: Set up plans for follow-up with students and families to sustain progress and gains made.
Best Practices Videos
As part of our Every Day Matters Summit events and networking, Educational Leaders from around the country and world share Best Practices for engaging teams, students, and families using positive restorative approaches.
Watch, learn, and borrow from their successful district programs and recommendations.
Materials & Resources from Attendance Works
Hedy Chang, Exective Director and President, Attendance Works
We are All in this Together: Doing What it Takes to Combat Absenteeism
Myra Castaneda-Lara, Director of Educational Support, Galena Park ISD, TX
Ways Adults can Show Up, Communicate, & Collaborate So Student can be Present
Sharon Bradley, Director – Student, Family and Community Services, Plano ISD, TX
Inclusive Attendance - A Problem Solvers Panel
Moderator - Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty,
Butler University, IN
International Practices for Recording, Reporting, and Using Data on School Attendance and Absence
Dominik Dvorak, Faculty of Education, Institute of Research and Development of Education,
Charles University, Prague
Amplifying Commonalities and Differences in School Absenteeism - People
Christopher A. Kearney, PhD,
University of NV, Las Vegas, NV
School Avoidance: Listening to and Learning from the Lived Experience of Students, Parents and Practitioners
Catriona O'Toole,
Maynooth University, Ireland
A Tiered Framework to Prevent & Address School Refusal
Patricia A. Graczyk, PhD,
University of IL, Chicago, IL
The Triad of Engagement: Addressing Chronic Absence with Student, Family, and Community Engagement
Shelneka Adams-Marsalone, Child Welfare & Attendance Liaison, Office of Career & College Readiness,
LA Dept of Education, LA
Square Peg
Ellie Costello,
Square Peg
Attendance Matters: Building a Foundation for Student Achievement
Alicia Bradley,
Director of Student Services,
Duncanville ISD, TX
One Team, Every Child: Creating District-Level Processes for Dropout Recovery
Angela Daniels,
M.Ed. Coordinator, Student Services,
Garland ISD, TX
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