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Must be Present to Win: How Local Communities Can Encourage Student Attendance in September

September 04, 2014

Attendance Awareness Month is in September, but it’s never too early to start gathering your team. While most efforts begin naturally and logically with parents and school leaders, there are a number of other powerful allies who can play key roles and give a big boost to Attendance Awareness Month this fall.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Attendance Works, Civic, The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Count Us In

September 04, 2014

Can we mark you “present?” America’s Promise Alliance, Attendance Works, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, Points of Light and United Way Worldwide invite you to join us as we launch the second year of the Attendance Awareness Campaign, which designates September as Attendance Awareness Month. 

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Attendance Works, Civic, The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Count Us In Again

September 03, 2014

A Sneak Preview Inside this Resource How Volunteer Organizations Can Help Improve Attendance: 1. Volunteer organizations can partner with schools to reduce chronic absenteeism Corps 18 AmeriCorps Vista 2. Help create a culture of attendance through events and general messaging 3. Foster stronger family and student engagement

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Attendance Works, The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, United Way Worldwide

We Need You! Enlisting Allies for Your Attendance Campaign

September 03, 2014

A Sneak Preview Inside this Resource What Community Schools Can Do to Reduce Chronic Absence: Offer a philosophy of working in partnership to address holistic needs of students and families Create a network of supports that ensure good attendance as part of a vision for academic success, family self-sufficiency, and economic prosperity Have the advantage of pre-existing partnerships already in place between schools, community- based organizations and other groups 

Type: Resource

TAG: Using Data

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Attendance, College & Career, Family Engagement

SOURCE: Attendance Works

Can You Hear Us Now? Amplifying Key Messages About the Importance of Attendance

September 03, 2014

A Sneak Preview Inside this Resource Exposure to language: Starting in Pre-K, attendance equals exposure to language-rich environments especially for low-income children. Time on Task in Class: Students only benefit from classroom instruction if they are in class. On Track for Success: Chronic absence is a proven early warning sign of academic trouble and dropping out of school. College Readiness: Attendance patterns predict college enrollment and persistence.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

channels: Attendance, College & Career

SOURCE: Attendance Works

Building A GradNation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic (2014)

April 28, 2014

For the first time in U.S. history the nation’s high school graduation rate rose above 80 percent, according to the 2014 Building a GradNation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic report released April 28 by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center, America’s Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education. While more than eight in 10 public high school students are graduating on time, Building a GradNation shows more good news: the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade, students of color…

Type: Resource

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness, Special Populations

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Health and Wellness

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance, Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Child Trends 5: Five Things to Know About Charter Schools

April 15, 2014

Child Trends offers five insights based on its review of the most recent national data on charter schools  

Type: Resource

TAG: Using Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Child Trends

Middle School Leadership Program

April 14, 2014

Middle School Leadership Program is a leadership workshop that meets weekly. The program targets eighth graders with poor grades in math and English and high absenteeism who are at-risk for dropping out of school. The workshops are aimed at improving communication skills, facilitating school engagement and easing the transition into high school. An experimental evaluation of the program found it to lack significant impacts on pregnancy in the past year.

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Family Engagement

SOURCE: Child Trends

Early Intervention Program

April 14, 2014

Early Intervention Program is a skills program for middle school aged students who are behind a grade level, who have low test scores, or high absenteeism. In addition to providing daily skill building class, it also provides counseling. An experimental evaluation of the program found significant impacts in year two and year three for highest grade completed. The program had significant negative impacts on females getting pregnant during the previous year in year two, and ever being employed in year three.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

channels: Attendance

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of School-Refusing Children

April 14, 2014

Cognitive-behavioral therapy was given to school-refusing children. The six therapy sessions explored ways in which children could recognize and cope with their anxiety, and gradually exposed children to anxiety-provoking situations. Results indicated that children who received treatment improved their school attendance as well as their emotional distress and coping mechanisms. No differences were found between the treatment group and control group in internalizing and externalizing behaviors reported by teachers or externalizing behaviors reported by parents.

Type: Resource

TAG: Students with Disabilities, Using Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Child Trends