Parent Engagement

America’s Promise Alliance and the Annie E. Casey Foundation have produced a Parent Engagement Toolkit that includes worksheets and promising practices for reducing chronic absence. 

Download the toolkit here

School Improvement Grants

In California, Attendance Counts has partnered with a broad coalition of organizations to develop guidelines and tools to help schools and districts address chronic absence as they seek to turn around underperforming schools through the school improvement grant programs. A key premise is that before schools can improve academic achievement, they must ensure that students are attending school in the first place. We are sharing these guidelines on this website because we believe schools and districts throughout the country may find them useful for their efforts to raise the level of academic performance in struggling schools.

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School Improvement Grant Toolkit Feedback Form

We appreciate your honest feedback on the value of these tools and will use it to improve the design and effectiveness of resources that we develop in the future to help schools and communities improve attendance and reduce chronic absence.

Please rate the utility of the following tools on a scale of 1 to 5

1. School Attendance Data Report 1 2 3 4 5 (required)
2. Identifying Factors Contributing to Chronic Absence 1 2 3 4 5 (required)
3. School Self Assessment Tool 1 2 3 4 5
4. Bibliography of Additional Resources 1 2 3 4 5

What additional materials would you like provided or created to help you better address issues of poor attendance as part of turning around an underperforming school?

1. Response

Please indicate what role you play in your school community by circling the description that best applies to you.

1. Select Role District Administrator Community Agency Representative Principal Parent Teacher Other

 

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