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All posts by Phyllis Jordan

New Brief: Preventing Missed Opportunity


A new report from Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center builds on the first national chronic absence data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) from...
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New Attendance Toolkit from MENTOR


Quality mentoring can have a significant impact on improving school attendance and student success. Recognizing this, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, has released a promotional toolkit...
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Data Tools to Drive Action


Too often, parents, students and sometimes teachers don’t realize how quickly absences, excused as well as unexcused, can add up to academic trouble. At the same time principals, district...
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Join us for Attendance Awareness Campaign 2016!


Planning for Attendance Awareness Month in September is underway! Our Count Us In! toolkit 4.0, now completely on-line, includes guidance on how to create your own contest or event, free webinars,...
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Attendance Awareness 2016 Kickoff Webinar


Upcoming Webinars and Workshops Tuesday, April 12, 2016: Motivating Good Attendance All Year Long, 11-12:30 pm (PT) / 2-3:30 pm (ET). Register here! Interested in the latest strategies for leveraging...
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Attendance Awareness Month: By the Numbers


This year’s Attendance Awareness Month spurred action across the country and as far away as Australia. We’ve consolidated the metrics in our Attendance Awareness Month 2015 handout....
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Feedback Wanted!


We’re excited about all the engagement and activity we saw during Attendance Awareness Month: 57 nonprofit partners, 403 pins on the action map and now 4,400 people on our attendance listserv....
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400+ Schools and Communities Post on the Map


The third annual Attendance Awareness Month drew an unprecedented level of participation from schools and communities across the country. A total of 402 places posted on the map this year up from...
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200+ Superintendents Join Call to Action


We’re delighted to announce that more than 200 superintendents from school districts across the country have joined our Call to Action, committing to emphasize the importance of school...
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9/30 Webinar to Highlight Messaging to Parents


Attendance Awareness Month offers us the opportunity to deepen our efforts to end chronic absence. The work in Campaign for Grade-Level Reading communities across the nation has confirmed and...
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