We would like to offer a special thank you! to our 2022 Attendance Awareness Campaign corporate sponsors: EveryDay Labs, Safe and Civil Schools, RaaWee K12 Solutions and Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools. Our work to bring free resources through the Campaign to schools, districts and states across the country is not possible without the support of […]
Thank you for your participation in Attendance Awareness Campaign 2022! We would like your feedback on what worked this year and any ideas you might have about how we might improve. We’re asking participants to complete a short survey. Please finish the survey by November 9, 2022. • Win a ticket to our e-learning! Everyone […]
Our final 2022 Attendance Awareness Campaign webinar, What Works to Sustain Attendance and Engagement?, highlighted the importance of utilizing attendance data to implement solutions that strengthen school attendance through increasing student and family engagement. Here’s a quick summary: The panel of educational specialists, school administrators and other partners shared strategies for identifying and addressing the […]
Choosing the right intervention to address an attendance barrier is key to improving an individual’s, or a student group’s, attendance. But with large numbers of students missing too many days of school today, the reasons for absences are more numerous and varied. While Attendance Works does not endorse commercial products, we think it is important […]
We had an amazing participation in the third 2022 Attendance Awareness Campaign webinar, Ensuring a Welcoming, Healthy and Restorative Start to School, (August 3, 2022). Listen to the webinar recording, and find the presentation slides and chat room summary when you scroll down on this page. The webinar speakers consisted of organization leaders, school administrators […]
The second 2022 Attendance Awareness Campaign webinar, What Promotes Engagement and Attendance? Insights from Students, Parents and Educators, focused on developing community-centered strategies to address the underlying issues that lead to chronic absenteeism. Here’s a quick summary: The panel of organization leaders, school administrators and students shared their insights on issues that contributed to low […]
As the ripple effects of the pandemic continue to rattle the nation, paying attention to attendance is more crucial than ever. In schools, students must be present and actively engaged in learning if we are to recover from the pandemic. A recent survey suggests that chronic absence has more than doubled from pre-pandemic levels, when […]
Our first Attendance Awareness Campaign webinar, Keep Kids Engaged and Showing Up for Learning: Relationships, Routines and Partnerships, (April 6, 2022), highlighted the importance of community involvement and relationship building for improving student engagement and attendance. The webinar featured community a district educator and expanded learning providers whose organizations have taken innovative steps to build […]
Attendance Awareness Campaign 2022 marks 10 years of promoting the importance of regular attendance and engaging schools, district, states and other partners in supporting solutions to reducing chronic absence (broadly defined as missing too much school). When we launched the campaign in 2013, we had fewer than 35 national partners. Today we have more than […]
Our theme this year, Rebound with Attendance! is more important than ever as we return to school this fall. Rebound with Attendance! can be a reminder to everyone that monitoring attendance and reviewing absenteeism data from the first months of school can offer an early warning that a student is off track. This data shows […]