5 Resources to Promote Positive Attendance!
Promoting positive attendance habits in early learning, engaging with families, and using new tools to track absences can help promote student success. Use these five resources to support students and families!
1. Teaching Attendance Toolkit
Teaching Attendance 2.0 is filled with free, ready-to-use resources for everyone who understands that helping students get to school every day enhances the ability of teachers to teach more effectively.
2. Highlight: Parent Alert! Your Child Just Skipped Class
Text alerts that notify parents of their kids missing assignments or when they miss class show a 17% increase in attendance and a 39% reduction in course failures.
Read the whole article from Anya Kamenetz and Cory Turner, NPR: Parent Alert.
3. My Family’s Help Bank
Use the My Family’s Help Bank Worksheet to help families think through their support network.
4. Get Schooled Attendance Calendar
Use this as an educational tool with students or parents to demonstrate the impact of absences on test scores and chances of graduating.
5. Sample Social Media Posts: Early Learning
- Good attendance in preK & K builds academic & social skills for the future: bit.ly/1oqfID7 #schooleveryday [TWEET THIS NOW]
- Kids who miss too much school in PreK & K are less likely to be @readingby3rd: bit.ly/1oqfID7 #schooleveryday [TWEET THIS NOW]
- See them all: Attendance Works Social Posts.
*Upcoming Professional Development: BECCA Conference
Date: October 18 & 19, 2018
Location: Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Theme: “Supporting the Whole Child”
Register here: https://ccyj.org/beccaconference/
The conference agenda will center on strategies, practices, and programs of intervention for children who are chronically absent or truant from school and/or engaging in at-risk behavior (e.g. running away from home). We are proud to announce that this year will be sponsored by Yakima County Juvenile Court, ESD 105, and Central Washington University!
Please visit the Conference website for more details, including registration fees, an agenda preview, and lodging information.
If you have any Becca Conference-related questions or concerns, please contact Kimberly Ong at becca@ccyj.org.
For more information about attendance and chronic absenteeism in Washington, go here: http://www.k12.wa.us/attendance/
