Talking about student attendance requires regular reminders to staff. How about using your current memos or newsletters to make it a monthly discussion in the staffroom? In this podcast we discuss some simple attendance tips that can be part of your conversations.
Tag: school climate
May 26
How can I include and engage parent voice in my school? May 2/23
Parent voice needs to be included through a variety of channels that are formal and less formal.
Mar 02
Research shows restorative practices has some positive effects reducing suspensions Feb.28/23
Listen now to podcast at CircleForum By itself, restorative practices does not do it all! The research shows some positive change in reducing suspensions. The recommendations coming out of this research are worth a second look. Shelley, Steve and Stan discuss how the complexity involved with attendance, suspensions and achievement require complex responses. “The authors …
Mar 02
Research says social-emotional learning and character development lowered absenteeism by 15% and suspensions by 72% Feb 21/23
Listen now to podcast at CircleForum Student achievement and attendance are improved by the non-academics of social emotional learning and character education. Using a restorative lens, Shelley, Steve and Stan discuss the many positive in this program, things like interactive discussions. “Using school-level archival data, analyses comparing change from baseline (2002) to one-year post trial …
Feb 07
Attendance improves with Positive Greetings at the Door , a low-cost, high yield strategy – Jan.17/23
Listen now to Circle Forum Simple and proactive and doable! These are things we appreciate about the research on positive greetings at the door(PGD) “Results revealed that the PGD strategy produced significant improvements in academic engaged time and reductions in disruptive behavior. Moreover, results from a social validity questionnaire indicated that teachers found the PGD …
Feb 07
Research which shows that serving breakfast after the bell can reduce student absenteeism by an average of 6% – Jan.10/23
Listen now to Circle Forum We love research and data that supports initiatives to reduce student absenteeism. In this episode we do some restorative reflections on this Tier 1 intervention that is good for all. Moving a breakfast program into the school day promotes conversations and community for students and staff. “The study found that Breakfast …
Jan 02
Research says “supportive school climate improves student attendance” – Jan.2/23
Listen now to recent podcasts on Circle Forum For Season 6 of CircleForum, we’re going to be taking a closer look at the research on things that work to improve student attendance and how that fits with restorative practices. “Students reporting “moderate” and “negative” climate in their schools were more likely to attend schools with …
Jan 02
School climate impacts student attendance – Dec. 20/22
Listen now to recent podcasts on Circle Forum Shelley, Steve and Stan continue part 3 of their discussion about an article published in October 2022 by Dr. Jess Whitley of the University of Ottawa and Dr. Beth Saggers Queensland University of Technology. It’s called“School attendance problems are complex, and our solutions need to be as …