what works… Weekly Meetings. Organize Resources. The Principal leads The Principal’s weekly Student Success Summit meetings on attendance makes the biggest difference with school staff and Success Mentors (or for a school in combating chronic absenteeism their representatives) to review school-wide by creating welcoming and supportive climate, attendance data and track chronically absent offering programs that meet student needs students, diagnose absences and determine and a system for recognizing good and the most strategic points of intervention (e.g., improved attendance. student, class, grade, school or community), direct appropriate supports to the student or family, and progress monitor the initiative. Personalize Student Interventions. Draw on Community Resources. A Schools school based or school linked caring adult or host Parent Success Summits or other events peer mentor provides one-on-one support, to connect parents, families and care-givers to encouragement, and practical problem solving, vital community and youth services which help for chronically absent students. Success students attend school every day. Schools also Mentors create positive relationships with the use the support of local community partners students and their families/care givers, to get the message out about the importance respond to each absence, recognize even small of attending school regularly and provide improvements, and leverage these actions to needed services to enable this. unearth the root-causes of the student’s absenteeism. They then connect students with the appropriate supports.
what works… Weekly Meetings. The Principal leads weekly Student Success Summit meetings with school staff and Success Mentors (or their representatives) to review school-wide attendance data and track chronically absent students, diagnose absences and determine the most strategic points of intervention (e.g., student, class, grade, school or community), direct appropriate supports to the student or family, and progress monitor the initiative. Organize Resources. The Principal’s on attendance makes the biggest difference for a school in combating chronic absenteeism by creating welcoming and supportive climate, offering programs that meet student needs and a system for recognizing good and improved attendance. Personalize Student Interventions. A school based or school linked caring adult or peer mentor provides one-on-one support, encouragement, and practical problem solving, for chronically absent students. Success Mentors create positive relationships with the students and their families/care givers, respond to each absence, recognize even small improvements, and leverage these actions to unearth the root-causes of the student’s absenteeism. They then connect students with the appropriate supports. Draw on Community Resources. Schools host Parent Success Summits or other events to connect parents, families and care-givers to vital community and youth services which help students attend school every day. Schools also use the support of local community partners to get the message out about the importance of attending school regularly and provide needed services to enable this.
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