Using Data to Focus Interventions
Summer is an ideal time for schools and districts to review and analyze last year’s attendance data. Chronic absence data, when broken down, will help identify which students might be in need of additional support and recovery interventions. If it is a large number, use the summer to put in place an especially warm welcome back to school and support to help with attendance challenges.
Summer programs can also use chronic absence data from the first few weeks of operations to notice which students need support. If you notice families experiencing challenges showing up to your program, consider using our Family Help Bank.
We’ve gathered materials to help schools, districts and communities to calculate, analyze and use local data to provide targeted support and implement the R.E.A.L. framework. Find it all in Step 3 of the Showing Up Matters for R.E.A.L. toolkit.
Ethical Schools interviewed Hedy Chang, our Executive Director, for their podcast, Solving chronic absence: A whole-school approach. Listen to the podcast here.
Our next AAC Webinar is: Ensuring a Welcoming, Healthy and Restorative Start to School, Wednesday, August 3, 2022: 12pm-1:30pm PT / 3pm–4:30pm ET. Register here for this webinar and learn about the other 3 in the 2022 webinar series!
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