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Webinar #2: Relationships All Year Round!


Attendance Awareness Campaign webinar #2 — Relationships All Year Round: Nurturing Showing Up! (May 10) — delved into late-pandemic stress and ways to support students as they rebuild their school attendance routines and relationships. The webinar featured four experts speaking about students, stress and overcoming today’s many challenges to attendance and engagement. Listen to the […]

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Let’s Shift the Narrative Towards a Positive Future for Students


Curious about how social isolation, trauma and increased anxiety are affecting student attendance and engagement, and what adults can do to help? Don’t miss what Pamela Cantor, MD, Founder and Senior Science Advisor of Turnaround for Children shared during the March 30, 2023 Attendance Awareness Campaign webinar, Belonging and Engagement: The Keys to Showing Up! […]

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Webinar #1: Belonging and Engagement!


Chronic absence has doubled when compared to rates before the pandemic, and its results have disrupted learning—but we can show up to blunt the damaging effects of high levels of absenteeism. That’s one message behind the March 30 webinar, Belonging and Engagement: The Keys to Showing Up, which kicked off the 2023 Attendance Awareness Campaign. […]

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Workshop: Plan Now for Better Attendance


RaaWee K12 is offering a free, virtual workshop for districts on April 20, titled Building a Strategic Plan for Reducing Chronic Absenteeism and Truancy. This workshop, available to educators at no cost, is part of a series presenting strategies for using chronic absence data, responding to barriers to showing up, multitiered system intervention approaches and […]

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Launching the 2023 Attendance Awareness Campaign!


Showing Up Together!” is the theme of 2023’s Attendance Awareness Campaign, which begins this month. We’re using this 11th annual campaign to encourage everyone to remember that students are more likely to attend school if they feel emotionally and physically safe, connected and supported and believe they can learn and achieve. The theme “Showing Up […]

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Campaign Wrap with the Numbers!


Our theme this year, Stay Connected, Keep Learning! is a call to students, families and everyone in the school community to lift up the value and importance of showing up to school, whether learning is in person or distance. Stay Connected, Keep Learning!  emphasizes the importance of predictable routines, helping all students to continue to learn even […]

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Appreciation: AAC Corporate Sponsors!


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 […]

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Help Us To Improve the Attendance Awareness Campaign! Take a Short Survey


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 […]

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Sept. 28 webinar: What Works to Sustain Attendance and Engagement?


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 […]

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Tracking Attendance Interventions Using an Online Tool


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 […]

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