Attendance Works Resources
Our website offers resources for monitoring, understanding, and addressing chronic absence beginning in the early grades through secondary school. These strategies can be implemented at the school, district, and state level.
Scroll down the page to find resources to help you develop Positive Engagement with families and students, Actionable Data to help you identify students with too many absences, and Capacity Building to help build a culture of attendance in your classroom, school or district. Looking for our toolkits? Find them below under Capacity Building.
Click on one of the categories tiles below to find the tool you are looking for. Or type the name of the resource into the website search bar.
All tools can be downloaded and used without express permission from Attendance Works. See our uses policy for more detail.

Attendance Videos

Exercises

Incentives

Messaging

Posters and Banners

Handouts for Families

Student Attendance Success Plans

Teens & Families

Spring Attendance Slump

Data Tools

Addressing Barriers

Self Assessments

Toolkits

Scan of Environment and Attendance (SEAT)

Teaching Attendance Curriculum
Feel free to use a tool developed by outside authors or offer tools of your own. To submit comments about what worked and what could be improved — as well as share any new tools — please contact us. Be sure to include the author’s name and other pertinent bibliographic information.
If you wish to alter the wording of the handouts, please contact Associate Director Cecelia Leong at cecelia@attendanceworks.org.
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