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The Essential School Attendance Team: Weaving Success for Every Student

Weaving Success for Every Student: The Essential School Attendance Team

Absenteeism is more than just missed days, it’s missed opportunities, missed connections, and for many students, missed chances to thrive.

In today’s educational landscape, ensuring students show up and stay engaged takes more than policies and reminders, it takes a team. A strong, intentional, collaborative team. That’s where the Essential School Attendance Team comes in. This isn't about bureaucracy, it’s about belonging, it’s about a group of passionate educators and professionals coming together to make sure every student feels seen, supported, and empowered to attend, not out of obligation, but because they want to.

A Shift in Mindset – From Policy to People:
TEAMWORK

For decades, absenteeism was tackled with warnings, punishments, and rigid attendance codes. But research and lived experience have flipped the script. Now, we know the key isn’t in scolding, it’s in support. The attendance team’s approach is rooted in empathy and strategy. It’s about asking the right questions: Why is this student not showing up? What’s going on beneath the surface? How can we help, not penalize?

It’s a shift from compliance to connection.

The Core Four and So Much More:
TEAM MEMBERS

At the heart of every effective attendance team are what the whitepaper calls “The Core Four”:

  1. A data analyst
  2. A behavioral and social-emotional expert
  3. A learning specialist
  4. A school administrator

Together, these individuals form a powerful brain trust, combining numbers, insight, experience, and authority to craft solutions tailored to student needs. But the beauty of the model is in its flexibility and inclusivity. Teachers, counselors, community partners, even parents and students can all bring something vital to the table. This isn’t a closed circle. It’s a growing, evolving web of collaboration.

A Framework That Works:
The 3D PYRAMID

The whitepaper introduces a game-changing tool: the 3D Pyramid Framework, a multidimensional model to guide interventions.

Level 1 is all about prevention. Proactive policies, strong relationships, positive school culture.
Level 2 identifies students at risk early and offers timely, tailored support.
Level 3 digs deeper; providing intensive, wraparound interventions for students with chronic absenteeism.

The pyramid’s structure also recognizes why students miss school: emotional distress, disengagement, logistical challenges, or systemic inequities. Each “face” of the pyramid reflects a different challenge, and the team tailors support accordingly. It’s not just a visual aid, it’s a mindset shift.

Beyond School Walls:
Community, Communication, and Tech

One of the most inspiring takeaways? Attendance work doesn’t stop at the school gate.

Strong teams build bridges with families, healthcare providers, social services, and community organizations. With smart use of technology dashboards, communication tools, and intervention management systems. They track progress, identify patterns, and coordinate support in real time.

In the right hands, data becomes a lens to see students clearly, not just numbers, but stories waiting to be heard.

Building a Future Where Every Student Belongs

Ultimately, this work is about more than attendance. It’s about making sure every student knows: You matter. We want you here.

Dr. Heyne’s whitepaper reminds us that addressing absenteeism is not a side project, it’s central to student success. And it takes all of us: educators, families, communities. So, let’s stop thinking of attendance as a checklist. Let’s start seeing it as a culture, one of belonging, resilience, and opportunity.

Ready to start weaving your own attendance success story?

Check out the full whitepaper and explore how your school can build a team that transforms not just attendance but lives.

Dr. David Heyne, PhD

Dr. DAVID HEYNE, PHD

With over 30 years of experience in the field of school attendance, Dr. David Heyne brings diverse expertise spanning practical, research, and scholarly work. He is co-founder and executive team member of INSA (the International Network for School Attendance), co-founder of the KNSA (Dutch Knowledge Network for School Attendance), and offers freelance services through Excellence in Attendance Support, actively collaborating with professionals to make a positive impact on school attendance and young people’s relationship with education and well-being.

Currently serving as Honorary Associate Professor at Deakin University in Australia, David’s academic journey includes roles at the University of Melbourne and Monash University in Australia, and more recently, at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

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RaaWee K12 Solutions, solely focused on the challenges of Chronic Absenteeism and Truancy for more than 10 years, provides RaaWee K12 Attendance+ to educational institutions and their leaders for foolproof tracking, simplified outreach, timely 2-way communication, barrier-solving collaboration, simplified document preparation, powerful data analysis, and centralized storage tools that result in successful Student Attendance Improvement.

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RaaWee Attendance+ (also known as RaaWee K12 Truancy & Dropout Prevention System (TDPS)), is a comprehensive collaboration platform, that implements student attendance and participation improvement strategies. The most robust and scalable platform provides school districts with essential best practices and robust tools for preventing chronic absenteeism and truancy, regardless of the District’s education delivery model – Online, At-School Learning, or Hybrid.

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  • RAAWEE ATTENDANCE+
  • MILOGs

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  • ACHIEVING ATTENDANCE IMPROVEMENT
  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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  • EVERYDAY MATTERS SUMMIT

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Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty

Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, founder, lead consultant, and Chief Education Officer for Pivot Attendance Solutions, has inspired many administrators, educators, students, and school social workers as a past chair of the school’s concentration Masters Curriculum, tenured professor, and Director of the Bachelors for Social Work Program. Having worked closely with Indiana Department of Education to assist school counselors in acquiring a school counselor license and coordinating curriculum mapping and application, she knows the intricacies of working with school-community partnerships. She has been a forerunner in responding to school absenteeism, truancy, and social bonding. She has over 30 years in youth development, 20 years in dropout and truancy and more specifically she brings over 12 years studying, researching, presenting, and writing about absenteeism locally, nationally, and internationally. In the US she is a leader in absenteeism and understanding school attendance problems and translating such into practice models for implementation. She is forging partnerships in colleges to establish the area as a formal field of study.

Dr. Kim Wallace

Dr. Kim Wallace, professional education consultant with Process Makes Perfect, and author of Leading the Launch, published by Solution Tree in September 2021, outlines a field-tested ten-stage process for successfully vetting and sustaining new initiatives in schools and districts. Dr. Wallace’s book shares a developed structure to regulate programs, protocols, and adoptions districtwide. This process was the result of her career in public education of almost three decades, starting as a high school teacher and instructional coach before moving into site administration. After earning her doctorate from UC Davis in 2012, Kim was promoted to Director of Instructional Technology in Davis, CA and then Assistant Superintendent of Instruction in Fremont, CA. In 2017, she became the superintendent of Fremont Unified—one of the top twenty largest districts in California—where Kim discovered a true passion for creating systems to navigate organizational progress. A deft strategist and expert who has served in four diverse districts, Dr. Wallace believes that her “personal and professional purpose is helping educators (re)claim their power to positively transform our schools and districts from the inside out.”

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