A Practical Approach to Achieving a Culture of Positive Attendance

A Practical Approach to

Achieving a Culture of Positive Attendance

Part I of a 6-part Blog - Intro

RaaWee K12 has a mission to deliver solutions, tools & best practices for five essential elements for attendance successes:

How to Raise awareness about the effects of chronic absenteeism, truancy and other challenges associated with poor attendance?

How to Identify and respond to grade level or pupil subgroup patterns of chronic absenteeism or truancy?

How to Identify and address factors contributing to chronic absenteeism and habitual truancy, including suspension and expulsion?

How to Ensure that pupils with attendance problems are identified as early as possible to provide applicable support services and

interventions?

How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of our Strategies?

At RaaWee K12 we believe that these are extremely relevant questions for introducing and creating a culture of Positive Attendance. California Department of Education has incorporated these in their Ed Code and made managing the above an essential responsibility for Attendance Supervisors in California. This systemic approach will help address absenteeism challenges for School Districts.

In this blog, we will summarize what have we learned and the solutions we have been creating since we began supporting schools with absenteeism prevention challenges.

Experts, Researchers and Practitioners all agree that attendance improvement challenges can be effectively addressed with a systematic approach by school districts. A halfhearted, disintegrated, piece-meal approach sometimes will work here and there. And in any given year, attendance may improve, only to find that the next year it drops again. Despite the hard work and dedication from the team, the results are not sustainable due to the disintegrated tools available to them. We believe that to achieve sustained good attendance results year after year, districts will have to approach this challenge more holistically. 

Join us for this six-part weekly blog as we take a deep dive into each of the above questions with a holistic approach, best practices and successes from our experience working with school districts in Texas, California, Ohio and Washington.