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This Teaching Attendance: Everyday Strategies to Help Teachers Improve Attendance and Raise Achievement professional doc also includes:
- Sending the Right Message about Attendance to Parents and Students
- Connecting with Students and Families to Reduce Chronic Absence: A Model for Outreach and Intervention
- Getting in Touch with Hard-to-Reach Parents
- Sample Back-to-School letter
- Fliers for parents
- Parent exercises: Illustrating the Gap in 3rd Grade Reading
- Tips for Taking Advantage of Parent-Teacher Conferences
- Making the Most of Your Parent-Teacher Conference
- My Child's Attendance Goal
- Promoting Attendance Through One-on-One Communications
- What to say to parents
- Pledge cards for parents
- Sending the Right Message about Attendance to Parents and Students
- Establishing School-wide Attendance Incentives
- Attendance Certificate
- Breaking Barriers to Attendance
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Build a culture of attendance with the help of this 7-page toolkit loaded with suggestions for specific things you and parents can do to improve attendance, and in turn, raise the achievement of learners. Included are suggestions for what to say to parents at Back-to-School Night, tips for conferences, and ideas about how to get in touch with hard-to-reach parents. A must-have resource.
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Instructional Ideas
- Begin using the strategies the first day of school
Classroom Considerations
- Designed for elementary school teachers, the strategies in the toolkit would work for students of all ages
Pros
- Loaded with suggestions for specific things teachers can do to improve attendance and raise achievement
- Provides strategies, handouts and interactive exercises for engaging parents in improving their children’s attendance
- Links are provided to additional materials for teachers and parents that promote attendance (some are in Spanish)
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- None