Engage Community Stakeholders in Promoting Attendance Inspiring Examples
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low-income families read by the end of third grade.
Communities who join the campaign receive tools, resources and supports to take a comprehensive approach to improving grade-level reading. Campaign communities bring key stakeholders together to promote school readiness and quality teaching, tackle chronic absence, and improve summer learning, as well as supporting parents as their children’s first teachers. More than 300 communities currently participate in the GLR Network. These include 111 communities that reported measurable progress in reducing chronic absence for students in low-income communities.
Cleveland’s Get 2 School You Can Make It reduced chronic absence from 44 to 30 percent from 2015 to 2017. Strategic partners include a strong partnership with the Cleveland Browns Foundation that supports the attendance campaign and other activities to improve education in Northeast Ohio. The team’s players serve as spokespersons for the campaign and visit classrooms to inspire excellent attendance. The non-profit Shoes and Clothes for Kids (SC4K) provides uniforms and school supplies to elementary schools, and a cadre of community volunteers, staff phone banks, canvass neighborhoods, act as mentors and more. Learn more about the Get 2 School campaign in this PBS NewsHour video segment, and our blog post.
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