Attendance Awareness Campaign Update
A project led by Attendance Works
September 17, 2020
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Personalize Outreach at the
Start of School
Do you know which students in your school are missing too many days or too many lessons this month that they are academically at risk? Using data from last school year can help determine the students who will benefit the most from relationship building and personalized outreach.
Other priorities for engagement and support include students for whom contact information has been lost, students who have had difficulty participating online, students involved in special education courses, as well as those experiencing significant challenges due to homelessness, poverty and involvement in child welfare.
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Our work with schools, districts and states is helping educators and their partners think strategically about how they can effectively support students and families during Covid-19, and what they should have in place over time, to improve attendance, educational equity and student achievement. Donate here.
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In rural Maine, outreach related to attendance done by all of the teachers in a school helped build the relationships that engaged students and families even when learning was offered remotely. Read about Waterboro Elementary.
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How can schools and districts capture attendance data during the first few months of this new school year? Michigan’s MTSS Technical Assistance Center interviewed Hedy Chang about how to monitor absenteeism in 2020-2021 and supports for students ranging from prevention to more in-depth intervention. View Monitoring Absenteeism: Interview with Attendance Works
Misha Karigaca, Coordinator of Attendance and Discipline Support Services, Oakland Unified School District, explained how the district is monitoring new metrics and building dashboards to compare data across schools. Hear Karigaca’s presentation during the Institute for Educational Leadership’s #RiseUpForEquity Summit, in OUSD’s Guide to Attendance During Covid-19.
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Updated weekly, EdWeek’s national map tracks each state’s mandates or recommendations on K-12 school closures and openings. An accompanying table provides a more nuanced descriptions of what’s happening in each state. Find the Map: Where Are Schools Closed?
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The Connecticut State Department of Education released simple, clear guidance for attendance during distance learning. A remote student can be considered as being "in attendance" on a particular day if the total time spent on one or more of four activities equals at least half the school day. Download Tracking Daily Attendance on Remote Days in 2020-21.
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The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR), in partnership with Attendance Works, has released a brief analyzing 33 success stories submitted by 28 different communities through their What Works Challenge competition. Two-thirds of the stories offered evidence of measurable improvement. Find the brief.
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Events
Join our AAC 2020 Twitter chat!
Save the Date: On Thursday, September 29, 3pm ET, join our Twitter Attendance Chat cosponsored by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, FutureEd and Attendance Works. We'll be chatting about the increased need in today’s uncertain world for trusting relationships between caring adults and students, and how to develop relationships virtually or in person that encourage attendance and participation.
Sample Tweet
We'll be chatting on 9/29, 3:00 pm ET, about how caring adults help students build trusting relationships, developed virtually or in person that encourage attendance & participation. Join @attendanceworks @MENTORnational @FutureEdGU #MentorIRL #SchoolEveryDay
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Webinars
On Thursday, September 24 from 2-3:30pm ET, America’s Promise Alliance will host the final webinar in the GradNation Acceleration Initiative Webinar Series. During this conversation, speakers will reflect on what it means to build partnerships from a shared vision, create trust through authentic relationship-building, and center youth needs in decision-making. Register here.
Join us and our AAC Collaborating partners for our third and final AAC 2020 webinar, Every Learning Opportunity Matters: Promising Strategies to Help Students Show Up, on Wednesday, September 30, at 11am-12:30pm PT / 2pm-3:30pm ET. Our speakers will share promising approaches used by schools, districts and communities to engage and support students and families in this initial transition to school. Register!
Find recordings of the live event, presentation slides and copies of the Zoom chat for our two previous AAC webinars on our website.
Tweet It!
Join @attendanceworks @IELconnects final AAC webinar, Every Learning Opportunity Matters, on 9/30! Hear promising approaches used by schools, districts & communities to engage & support students & families during #Covid19. https://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/webinars/ #SchoolEveryDay
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Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, states and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low-income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career and active citizenship.
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Thank You Corporate Sponsors!
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Attendance in the News
Just as schools were closing due to Covid-19, Moshe Fried, CEO of ClasStars interviewed Executive Director Hedy Chang. Hedy explains how chronic absence monitoring helps schools focus their resources and what schools can do to encourage attendance. Hear the podcast.
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Spread the Word!
Sample Tweets
Absenteeism is a lost opportunity to learn. This year in particular, we can’t afford to think of absenteeism as merely a lack of compliance with school rules. #SchoolEveryDay #AttendanceAwarenessMonth
Join @attendanceworks @IELconnects for the final AAC webinar on 9/30! Speakers will share promising approaches that encourage attendance & how these strategies can support positive conditions for learning throughout the academic year. Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6XXzrCFLTC6ESTXyJA1ERg #SchoolEveryDay
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Campaign Convening Partners
See the full list of Attendance Awareness Partners here.
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Attendance Works is a non-profit, national and state initiative. Our mission is to advance student success and reduce equity gaps by addressing chronic absence. Find free downloadable resources, research, consulting services and more on our website: www.attendanceworks.org
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