Preventing absences in a remote learning environment – LA Unified School District

“Over the summer of 2020 EveryDay Labs partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate the impact of Evident on attendance in a remote learning environment. Evident is a proven, restorative approach to absence prevention. The program leverages communication strategies informed by behavioral science to effectively reach families through personalized print reports and two-way texts that are designed to help them:Key Outcomes 1. Overall the program effectively prevented 12 percent of absences in a given week in a remote learning environment.
2. 97 percent of respondents reported being interested in receiving
text communications during the 2020–2021 school year.” Read article