Creating a culture that values good attendance is important and consistency is a key part of that. Communication about this important issue must be ongoing. This presentation shares both a sample family event calendar and communication calendar on pages 16-17 with suggestions for each month to help you map out your year of attendance outreach.
Start or Expand a School Breakfast Program
Check out this guide from Child Nutrition Outreach Program (CNOP) on how to start or expand a breakfast program across your school or district. The guide includes ways to create a grab and go breakfast or a more traditional program.
Pathways Resources for Identifying Assets and Challenges
Attendance Works has a COVID-19 attendance guide that schools and districts may find helpful in figuring out what attendance challenges students face and how schools might help address those challenges.
Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring System
Regional Education Laboratory (REL) created this easy seven step process to implement early warning indicators in a school or across a district.
Nudging Students and Families to Better Attendance
Education Next published this article with examples of messages one district used for post cards, with remarkable results.
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.
The Success Mentor Implementation Guide
The Success Mentor Implementation Guide provides tips on how to implement a Success Mentor model at your school. It was created by the Department of Education for districts, schools, team captains and school partners.
Pathways to Engagement: Covid-19 Recovery Through Attendance
Check out Step 3 of Attendance Works’ comprehensive guide around attendance, including this tool for re-engaging students and families.