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Enhancing student attendance requires a comprehensive approach that integrates various supportive measures. Key strategies include fostering a safe and inviting classroom environment, engaging students with interactive opening activities, and delivering consistent attendance messages. Intentional family involvement is crucial, alongside explicit teaching of attendance expectations and skills. Schools can implement a system of reinforcement through school-wide and classroom incentives, coupled with effective parent communication systems that emphasize attendance. Quick parent contact for unexplained absences and positive outreach for improving trends, along with case management and community support, further strengthen attendance efforts.
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Improving attendance takes an integrated approach Students • Universal Attendance Supports • Safe, inviting classroom and school environment • Engaging opening activities • Consistent attendance messages • Intentional family participation • Regular, explicit teaching of attendance expectations and skills • System of Reinforcement • School-wide incentive systems • Classroom incentive systems • Parent Communication Systems • Attendance emphasized in all communications • Rapid parent contact for unexplained absence • Positive contact when positive trends noted • Individual Assessment/Community Supports • Identify barriers and provide support • Provide mentoring • Interagency Staffing • Case management and wrap-around services • Legal Consequences • Attendance Officer Support Adapted from Scott Perry, Attendance Audit, Oregon