This page offers users access to tools for monitoring, understanding and addressing chronic absence, starting in the early grades. You will find tools for implementing strategies at the school, district and state level. Please feel free to use a tool developed by the author or offer tools of your own. Comments about what worked and what could be improved are highly encouraged. You can share tools by emailing them to www.attendancecounts.org. Or, provide a link to the resources, if they are available online. Please be sure to include author’s name and any other pertinent bibliographic information.

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The reality is an absence is an absence, excused or not, and that child is not in that classroom benefiting from the instruction on that day. We have to work in our community, with our schools and our families to build a culture of attendance.

- Ralph Smith, Executive Vice President,
Annie E. Casey Foundation