Students who attend at least 20 days of summer learning experience academic benefits. Develop effective recruitment materials and attendance systems with the Wallace Summer Learning Toolkit to ensure that students benefit.
Wallace Foundation: Summer Learning Recruitment Guide
Research shows that students with high attendance during summer learning experience higher learning outcomes in math and ELA, but getting kids to sign up for voluntary summer learning programs isn’t easy. Launch a summer learning district-focused recruitment effort with the Summer Learning Recruitment Guide from the Wallace Foundation.
Cornelius Minor: We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be
Cornelius Minor, a Brooklyn-based educator and staff developer with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, he talks about key themes around anti-bias and anti-racist professional development in his book called “We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be.”
Attendance Letters
Here’s a quick video from Skyward that can help an attendance aid generate letters to families, though the best results come from more personalized efforts.
Home Visits
FutureEd’s home-visit guide will help schools set up a practice across grades.
Tapping Federal Dollars to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism
For districts or schools thinking about how to use COVID-19 funding to improve attendance, FutureEd provides this guidance around using federal funds to invest in attendance.
Getting to Work on Summer Learning Recommended Practices for Success
Rand’s second edition Getting to Work on Summer Learning provides recommendations for district leaders and their partners who are interested in launching or improving summer learning programs Key suggestion: Commit in the fall to a summer program and begin planning and recruiting instructors by January.
3 Tiers of Intervention
While most students will need general supports to encourage strong attendance, some students will need focused, small group interventions, and a few will need intensive, one-on-one interventions. Attendance Works outlines those three tiers and gives examples of interventions.
Portland State University: Culturally Responsive & Inclusive Curriculum Resources
Portland State University has curated a resource page dedicated to creating culturally responsive curriculum.
Black Lives Matter At School: Week of Action
Join Black Lives Matter at School’s annual week of action during the first week of February each year.