A Sincere Thank You to Our 2025 Campaign Sponsors!
Attendance Works is deeply grateful to our 2025 Attendance Awareness Campaign sponsors: ● RaaWee K12 Solutions ● School Technology Associates ● Talking Points ● Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools Their generous support has been instrumental in supporting our ability to provide free resources to schools, districts and states nationwide through the Attendance Awareness Campaign. With their […]
Playing the Long Game to Improve Attendance
Similar to many school districts across the nation, Consolidated High School District 230 in Illinois has had a significant increase in chronic absence since the Covid-19 pandemic. District 230’s three high schools saw their chronic absence rate peak at 21% in the 2022-23 school year, but it has steadily decreased to 19.1% in 2024-25. We […]
Webinar #3 Student Connectedness = Attendance and Engagement!
The third AAC webinar, “Student Connectedness Fosters Attendance and Engagement” on August 6 showcased practitioners who are building strong student relationships to reduce chronic absence. Find the recording and materials here. Chronic absence has decreased slightly from pandemic highs but remains at concerning levels, with one in four students chronically absent nationwide, said Hedy Chang, […]
RaaWee K12: Using Technology to Improve Student Attendance
This is a Q&A with Saleem Qazi, CEO and founder of RaaWee K12 Solutions, a company specializing in web-based solutions for chronic absence and truancy prevention in public schools. Attendance Works: Saleem, could you share how you first became aware of the issue of chronic absence? Saleem: Absolutely. I met Hedy at a conference in […]
With Gratitude for Our 2024 AAC Corporate Sponsors!
Attendance Works is deeply grateful to our 2024 Attendance Awareness Campaign corporate sponsors: ● Scholastic ● School Technology Associates ● RaaWee K12 Solutions ● Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools Their generous support has been instrumental in supporting our ability to provide free resources to schools, districts and states nationwide through the Attendance Awareness Campaign. Regular school […]
AAC 2024: By the Numbers!
We were delighted to celebrate the annual Attendance Awareness Campaign with you. This year’s theme, Be Present, Be Powerful! serves as a reminder of the connection between school attendance and achieving our hopes and dreams. The theme highlights the role that schools play in promoting student well-being, personal development and achievement. Be Present, Be Powerful! […]
A Proud Sponsor of the Attendance Awareness Campaign
This is a guest blog post by Dan Horel, president of School Technology Associates. I’m Dan Hoerl, president of School Technology Associates, and a proud corporate sponsor of the Attendance Awareness Campaign, a project led by Attendance Works. I started working in the education market in 1983 selling robotic training solutions and in 2011, I […]
Creating a Culture of Belonging and Engagement: Principals In Action
The third webinar of the 2024 Attendance Awareness Campaign, “Creating a Culture of Belonging and Engagement: Principals In Action,” held on August 7, 2024, focused on engagement approaches designed to improve attendance for K-12 students. Kwesi Rollins, Vice President for Leadership and Engagement at the Institute for Educational Leadership started off the webinar noting the […]
Summit: Navigating Inclusive Attendance
RaaWee K12 Solutions is wrapping up the 2023-24 school year with two powerful virtual events, free to all educators. RaaWee K12 is teaming up with Pivot Attendance to present a free, virtual International Summit on June 7, 2024, bringing together education attendance improvement experts from around the world. Participants will leave with practical tips to […]
Wrapping up AAC 2023 with the numbers!
Our theme this year, Showing Up Together! spoke to the importance of joining together to address the devasting impacts from interrupted learning and economic stress large numbers of families and students have experienced since 2019. We highlighted the value of partnerships between communities, schools, students and families to build and implement long-term plans to address […]