For a general outline of strategies for city leaders, see What Can I Do.

Toolkits

The Toolkit for City Leaders offers:

  • The imperative to address chronic absence early in a child’s school career
  • Five strategies for leading the community and school systems in improving attendance.
  • Profiles of cities and selected local programs that illustrate how chronic absence can be reduced effectively.
  • Templates and tools for assessing data and identifying barriers to attendance
  • Resources for assisting city leaders in this important work.

Detailed Analysis: To address the issue of chronic absence most effectively, it is important that your school districts look at the data. Analyzing by grade, school, and sub-population will allow you to target your response to the groups that need it most. Below are templates to help guide your analysis.

 

New Data Tool: Attendance Works is also launching the DATT, a self-calculating spreadsheet that allows school districts to upload attendance data and within hours receive a chronic absence analysis. We are currently piloting the DATT with the communities in the All-America City Grade-Level Reading Network. If you’re a network member, please register here to receive the data tool. If you’re not a member, send us an email at help@attendanceworks.org or fill out the form below, and we’ll let you know when the tool is more widely available.

If you would like assistance from us, please fill out our City Leaders: Request for Assistance Form.

For more information on the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading go the Campaign website at www.gradelevelreading.net

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