Marketing Tools to Increase Regular Attendance
Social media posts, videos and graphics are available to download and use on your own websites and social pages to get the word out about the importance of regular attendance as well as to ignite needed conversation surrounding solving this epidemic.
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Communication Tools to Increase Regular Attendance
Communicate positively to encourage students, families and your community with these timely tools.
Start Strong; Attendance Focused Back to School Letter
This welcome back letter to parents is written in both English and Spanish.
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Communication
This is a color-coded communication tool that begins with universal supports in communication, moves through targeted supports and culminates in individual supports for students and families struggling with coming to school regularly.
Seasonal Communication Tools, Resources and Timelines
A year-long communication plan in a Google Spreadsheet that includes opening/staying/finishing strong, planning for extended breaks, inclement weather/flu, holidays, incident-driven communication and culturally specific holidays and events.
Extrinsic Motivation Might Be Worse Than You Thought
Communicating attendance improvement through awards and incentives is common practice, but new research is showing that it can backfire. Instead, a focus on relationships and personal communication from teachers and staff is what makes a difference!
Data Tools to Increase Regular Attendance
Data tools that help to identify student groups, inform and track interventions and celebrate successes.
Teaming Tools To Increase Regular Attendance
What are the ways of being and doing for highly effective teams of professionals who successfully impact change over time? Find out here!
- Attendance Team Formation and Meeting Best Practices: This is a very detailed guide from Attendance Works that can be a step-by-step tool for districts and schools to implement and run attendance teams in a highly effective manner.
- Strong Start Plan Template for Attendance Teams: This is the template that your district or school can use to understand all the pieces that need to come together to form a highly effective attendance team. Teams will also find embedded resources and tools here for an all-in-one place to plan.
- Attendance Success Plans for All Ages and in Spanish: These very proactive and positive plans include specific supports for parents and their children to consider as they work collaboratively with school staff. The plans also include a school year calendar to track student absences.
- Ways of Being/Doing that Increase Regular Attendance
- District/School Self-Assessment- Ways of Being/Doing: This brief self-assessment will help districts and schools identify areas of growth for this coming school year. This Google Form assessment is based on the Ways of Being/Doing rubric above.
- Effective Attendance Teams Staff Development: This is a PDF of a Google Presentation that guides an attendance team or whole school staff through a self-assessment of their ways of being and doing that impact student attendance. Training on this is offered by our SOESD.
- Ways of Doing Assessment Tool: This assessment tool is to be used with the staff development presentation above.
- Ways of Being Assessment Tool: This tool is to be used along with the staff development presentation above.
Our Regional Job-Alike Communities for Improvement
Each job-alike group of professionals will continue meeting quarterly this year to share promising practices that increase regular attendance. Please click the link above to find out more details about these important gatherings.
Raising Regular Attendance
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