Author's posts
Feb 16
Positive student relationships with teachers as caring adults improves attendance….even when you don’t “love” every student
Building connections with kids needs to be intentional, takes practice and takes relational skills. It’s not an automatic that you’ll connect with every student. Here are some great suggestions coming from experience in the classroom.
Feb 14
Study: Majority of students’ feelings about high school are negative
Small wonder, then, that absenteeism becomes a concern if students don’t want to be at school. A caring adult connected to a student can determine what the causes of negativity are and become an attendance protective factor.
Feb 11
Students experiencing homelessness are chronically absent from school at a rate at least twice that of the overall student population, and significantly more often than their housed, low-income peers, University of Chicago
“Homelessness causes students to miss school, which can lead them to drop out, which then makes them 3.5 times more likely to experience homelessness as young adults. “
Feb 10
Principals make a difference and impact improvements in student attendance, new study says
“Drawing on statewide data from Tennessee over a decade, … principal effects on student absences are comparable in magnitude to effects on student achievement.”
Feb 07
Elementary school factors like chronic absenteeism in Grade 4 or any elementary school suspensions predict pathway to Post Secondary Education, study says
Students suspended in elementary school even once, students in self-contained special education programs and or students who miss more than 10% of school in Grade 4 do not go on to Post Secondary Education.
Feb 05
School bus as an intervention for chronic absenteeism? Yes and it could save money in the long run too
Rural schools: consider school bus routes as an intervention for chronic absenteeism
Jan 29
Asthma increases absenteeism for younger students, the poor and those in rural communities, study says
With limited resources in schools, it is helpful to direct school based asthma interventions to those students whose attendance is most impacted by asthma.
Jan 20
What it takes to apply restorative practices in schools? Experienced teachers contribute what works
Larry Ferlazza compiles some experienced teachers’ writings about how suspensions won’t improve school culture, how restorative practice requires modelling and when assessment becomes restorative.
Jan 14
Reduce absenteeism by reducing suspensions using restorative practice, research says
Chronic absenteeism is made up of suspensions/expulsions in addition to excused absences and unexcused absences. Restorative initiatives research has been showing promise to reduce suspensions thereby reducing absenteeism.