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Best Practices
Attendance+ is a highly robust collaboration platform for helping school districts implement research-based practices and develop their own comprehensive plans for preventing truancy and chronic absenteeism.
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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 the 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
Navigating Absenteeism: Strategies for Boosting Campus Attendance
Paul Carampatan,
Director of Administration,
Aldine ISD, TX
MSD Warren's Journey to Addressing Barriers to Student Attendance
Dr. Allison Woods,
Assistant Superintendent of Student Services,
MSD Warren Township, IN
Pieces of the Puzzle: Addressing Chronic Absenteeism
Xavier Warren, Truancy Officer,
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD
Finding Federal & State Level Funding for Implementing Attendance Tracking & Improvement Technology
Dr. Kim Wallace
School Avoidance Success Factors – Why You Need to Know Right Now!
Jayne Demsky
Katy ISD's Attendance Incentive Initiative
Ronnie Edwards, Asst Superintendent, School Leadership &
James Crider, Director, Business Intelligence
Katy ISD
My Absence—Your Problem | Interventions for Students with Higher Degree of Absenteeism
Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty,
Data is a Bucket with Holes: 10 Questions to Plug Holes
Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty
“The Collective” Tiered Actionable Strategies to Address Chronic Absenteeism
Sharon Bradley, M.Ed.
All Hands-On Deck: Attendance Team Building Strategies
Amir Alavi, M.A., J.D., Esq.
Building High Performing Teams: A Collaborative Approach to Attendance Improvementer
Dr. Kim Wallace
Leveraging Attendance Supports to Improve Student Success at Katy ISD
Ronnie Edwards, Gaby Pulido, and Donna Minix (District Level) with Lizzie Herring and Sonya Rebec-Dobbs (Campus level)
The 3 R’s Of Student Engagement: Rigor, Relevance & Relationships
Dr. Kim Wallace – Process Makes Perfect, Former Bay Area Superintendent
Involving Campuses & Community for Student Incentives that Work
Jesse Perusquia, Attendance Specialist, United ISD, TX
School Attendance Teams in Action: Data-based Decision-making
Patricia A. Graczyk, PhD
Redefining Attendance & Engagement Improvement In Distance Learning - Identifying/Tracking Present Not Engaged
Myra Castaneda, Program Director for Educational Support, Galena Park ISD, TX; Dr. Tracy Piper, Director of Student Services, Hemet USD, CA; Verna Honeycutt, Attendance Coordinator, Wichita Falls ISD, TX; Dr. Bobbi Burnett, Director of Student Services, Beaumont ISD, CA
Black Parents Matter, Too: Identifying & Overcoming Barriers to School Participation for African American Parents
Hemet USD, CA
Attendance is a Reflection of the Relationship between Student, School and Family
Gandview SD, WA
Using District-Wide Processes To Recover / Re-Engage Students
Angela Daniels, At-Risk Student Coordinator, Garland ISD, TX
Holistic Outreach - Improving Attendance & Getting High Schoolers Online During Distance Learning
Dr. Chaun Powell, EdD, ACSW, PPSC, Director, Student Services, East Side Union HSD, CA
Proving Real Attendance Improvement Results: Missing Matadors Matter
Seguin ISD, TX
A Systems Approach to Addressing Student's Attendance
Alice ISD, TX
Black Parents Matter, Too: Identifying & Overcoming Barriers to School Participation for African American Parents
Dr. Alycia Benson, Director of Student Support Services, Hemet USD, CA
Applying the “Mind in Boat” Teamwork & Focus to Attendance Improvement
Beaumont USD, CA
How Whole Team Buy In for Timely Student Interventions Turns into Provable Success
Myra Castaneda, Program Dir for Educational Support, Galena Park ISD, TX
Attendance is a Reflection of the Relationship between Student, School and Family
Gandview SD, WA
Helping Students To Persist
Chenda Moore – Coordinator Of Counseling Services, Pearland ISD, TX
Restorative Practices for the SART/SARB Process
Amir Alavi, MA JD, Director of Chronic Absenteeism Reduction, Riverside County Office of Education; Katy Wood, MS, NCSP, LEP #3926, Coordinator – Student Support, Attendance & Section 504, Murrieta Valley Unified School District
Texas Justice of the Peace Panel
Judge Yvonne Williams, Travis County; Judge Raquel Brown, City of Fort Worth; Judge Roy Castillo, Brazoria County; Judge Mary Tom Curnutt, Tarrant County
Best Practices for Conducting Safe Home Visits
Abilene ISD, TX
Best Practices & Strategies To Support Students Experiencing Homelessness During COVID-19 Pandemic
Cal Lopez – Texas Education Agency Texas Education For Homeless Children And Youth (TEHCY) Program State Coordinator
OnLine, OnTime, OnPoint- Attendance Campaign during Virtual Learning
James Vasquez, Director of Pupil and Parent Services, Diana Y. Mooy, Coordinator, Pupil and Parent Services, Monica Bustillos, Director of District Affairs, Ysleta ISD, TX
Proving Real Attendance Improvement Results: Missing Matadors Matter
Seguin ISD, TX
Dropout Recovery: Using District-wide Processes to Recover Students Part 2
Garland ISD, TX
Chronic Absenteeism: SARTS & Home Visits
Val Verde USD, CA
The Plano Attendance Review Board (PARB) Program
Sharon Bradley, Director of Family and Social Services, Plano ISD, TX
The El Paso ISD's Alpha Initiative: Making a Difference One Student at a Time
Mark Mendoza, Director of Student Retention & Truancy Prevention, El Paso ISD, TX
Every School Day Counts: Spotlighting Attendance & Truancy
Donna Minix, Attendance, Registration & Graduation Coordinator and Gabby Pulido, Dropout, Intervention & Recovery Coordinator, Katy ISD, TX
A Systems Approach to Addressing Student's Attendance
Alice ISD, TX
Building a Strategy to Plan for Reducing Chronic Absenteeism and Truancy
Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty,Dr. Kim Wallace
Mental Health Factors for Students Who Miss School
Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Pivot Attendance Solutions
California’s Approach to Reducing Chronic Absenteeism & Dropout Rates
David Kopperud, Education Programs Consultant, California Dept of Education
Collaborative Ways to Improve Attendance by Addressing and Eliminating Barriers
Pam Gould
Proactive Methods, Tools, and Messaging Strategies that Can Be Applied Throughout the Year
Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty
Knowing the "WHY" is Most Important at a School Site . . .
Jolie Critchfield, Director of Student Supports and Innovations, Marysville JUSD, CA
Collaborative Ways to Improve Attendance by Addressing and Eliminating Barriers
Pam Gould
Proactive Methods, Tools, and Messaging Strategies that Can Be Applied Throughout the Year
Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty
Leveraging Counseling and Mental Health Support in Truancy Intervention
Rebecca Clark and Jennifer Boniol
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