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Attendance Awareness Campaign Update
A project led by Attendance Works
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Calling All Superintendents!
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Participating Superintendents will raise their voices and lead the effort to improve attendance starting in the early grades in their community by:
- Making clear that improved student attendance is one of your top priorities
- Using local data to drive positive, problem-solving approaches to reducing chronic absence
- Reaching out to make improved student attendance a broadly owned and widely shared civic priority by engaging families, elected leaders, local businesses, service providers and others.
To demonstrate the widespread support for the Call to Action, we will publish a press release listing all the superintendents who have signed on and include their names
on our website.
- We have tools and resources to help Superintendents make their efforts a success! Find the resources.
- Invite your Superintendent to sign the call to action! Download our template letter.
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Support
Attendance Works!
Your gift will help fund more great resources to raise the awareness of the importance of attendance for educational equity and student achievement.
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Attendance Tools
Announcing: New "We Belong in School" themed social media images! Find them with sample tweets and all of our AAC social media sample tools --- including some in Spanish --- on our AAC 2019 website.
The beginning of school is a good time to build capacity by establishing a process to honor good and improved attendance. Especially in the early grades, an incentives strategy can help improve the accuracy of attendance data since the students, themselves, are likely to help ensure teachers are aware of who is and isn't in class. Find sample incentives.
But, keep in mind not every incentive program works to encourage daily attendance. Senior researchers Rekha Balu at MDRC and Stacy Ehrlich at NORC at the University of Chicago have developed a framework to help school staff think about how --- and when --- to use incentives to improve student attendance. Read our blog and find the research here.
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We Belong in School!
A rural community in Washoe County, NV introduced a district-wide SEL program to enable every student to have a positive connection with a teacher or adult at school each day. A few years later, the district's attendance rate, student achievement, and graduation rates have improved. Learn more about their "Every Child, by Name and Face, to Graduation" initiative via
Edutopia.
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Share Your Story
Do you have your cameras ready? We are looking for your Attendance Awareness Campaign stories and images that show how you engaged people around school attendance with the start of the new school year. Please send us your photos or graphics and a brief description of your activities using the form on our Attendance Awareness Campaign website, and we will post it!
Learn more.
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Twitter Chat: Preparing for a New Year!
Wednesday, August 21, 2019, 3-4pm ET / 12-1pm PT
Join the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, Attendance Works and Foundations, Inc. for an interactive Twitter chat on what schools and communities can do to reduce chronic absence this school year.
Use
#GLReading
and #
SchoolEveryDay
to follow and engage during the conversation!
Hosts and Co-Hosts Twitter Handles to Engage:
- Attendance Works (@AttendanceWorks)
- Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (@readingby3rd)
- Foundations, Inc. (@Foundations_Inc)
Tweet to Join!
Join @attendanceworks @readingby3rd @foundations_inc on Wednesday, 8/21 3pm - 4pm ET to chat about how creating a welcoming environment at the start of the school year can improve student reading, achievement & attendance. #SchoolEveryDay #GLReading
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AAC Webinars
Over
2,600 people registered to view our latest webinar, Open Doors: Create a Healthy School Climate!
ICYMI: We've posted the link to the webinar recording. Why not plan a viewing party? Download the presentation slides and a discussion guide and view with colleagues. Or share the recording link. Find it here: https://www.attendanceworks.org/resources/webinars/
Save the date! The final webinar for AAC 2019 will take place on September 10: A Place Where We Belong: Improving Conditions for Learning, at 2-3:30pm ET / 11am-12:30pm PT. We will look at how poor attendance can be addressed through improving Conditions for Learning. Registration link coming soon!
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Partner Spotlight
FutureEd is an independent, solution-oriented think tank at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. Its areas of study include chronic absenteeism in state accountability systems.
Attendance Works and FutureEd collaborated on the new Attendance Playbook that describes 20+ proven, research-based strategies that can be adapted to state and local circumstances and implemented quickly and cost effectively under ESSA's deadlines.
Download the Playbook.
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Corporate Attendance Sponsors
We want to send a big thank you to this year's Attendance Awareness Corporate Sponsors. Find out more on our
webpage.
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Spread the Word!
Good atte
ndance in PreK & K builds academic & social skills for the future:
bit.ly/1oqfID7
#schooleveryday
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Campaign Convening Partners
See the full list of Attendance Awareness Campaign partners
here.
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